Civil Defense - an Important Component of Total Defense of the Country

Abstract

Civil defense is a constituent part of the system of state social and defense measures. It is planned and implemented to protect the population in war and peacetimes, to maintain the stable operation of economic objects, and to carry out rescue and other types of emergency work in damage areas. It is a complex of non-military, defensive measures aimed to ensure the efficiency of state management. The main task of civil defense is to protect the rear of the country. Civil defense, in order to reduce human and material losses, uses only its own, mostly passive methods and means.