"Military Affairs"[1] was a popular Russian-language military (military-scientific) magazine on military affairs, the press organ of the People's Commissariat for Military and Naval Affairs on the part of the General Staff.

Until 1920, it was the only periodical in Russia designed for a wide range of readers and was intended for the command and political composition of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army.

The main objectives of the magazine: to clarify the policies and activities of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and the Soviet government on the military construction of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, methods of training and education of personnel, coverage of the theory and practice of the use of troops of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, the use of military affairs for abroad.

Motto: "Knowledge and Skill – Strength".

"...Shaposhnikov, who during the Soviet–Polish War in the magazine "Military Affairs" published an unusually rude chauvinistic article in the spirit of the good tsarist era ("Insidious Poles", etc.)..."