UNCLASSIFIED -- state and public security; -- economic growth; -- science, technology, and education; -- healthcare; -- culture; -- the ecology of living systems and the rational use of natural resources; -- strategic stability and equal strategic partnership. IV. Ensuring National Security 32. National security directly depends on the extent to which the strategic national priorities are implemented and how effectively the system for ensuring national security operates. National Defense 33. The strategic national defense goals are to create conditions for the peaceful and dynamic socioeconomic development of the Russian Federation, and to ensure its military security. 34. The strategic national defense goals are to be achieved within the framework of implementing military policy through strategic deterrence and the prevention of armed conflicts, improving the state's military organization and the forms and methods for deploying the Russian Federation Armed Forces, other troops, military formations and agencies, increasing the Russian Federation's mobilization readiness, and the readiness of civil defense forces and resources. 35. The fundamental principles of military policy and the objectives for military-economic defense of the country, military risks, and military threats are set out in the Military Doctrine of the Russian Federation. 36. Interrelated political, military, military-technical, diplomatic, economic, informational, and other measures are being developed and implemented in order to ensure strategic deterrence and the prevention of armed conflicts. These measures are intended to prevent the use of armed force against Russia, and to protect its sovereignty and territorial integrity. Strategic deterrence and the prevention of armed conflicts are achieved by maintaining the capacity for nuclear deterrence at a sufficient level, and the Russian Federation Armed Forces, other troops, and military formations and bodies at the requisite level of combat readiness. 37. The state's military organization is to be improved through the timely identification of existing and potential military risks and threats, the balanced development of the elements of military organization, increasing defense capability, equipping the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, other troops, military formations and agencies with modern weapons and military UNCLASSIFIED