Defence & Strategy

The article deals with actual changes of the U.S. Armed Forces deployment in the world. There are reason and cause of changes of this deployment in abroad.

This article deals with current attitude towards definition of security threat and hazard and attitude towards NATO security strategy including current approaches in CR. It analyses basic definition of security threat and security hazard and on the end of article present some recommendations.

Systems thought over question of military activity changes in air-space. This space will more and more represent air-cosmic space and any using of air force will have mainframe of joint operation. Reections are starting from armed conicts through joint operations to Network Centric Warfare - NCW. To this concept are added technological and organizational aspects of activities in air space. After that questions of using air force in joint operation and future problems within air force are deduced. The strategy end in conclusion that incorrect using of air force in the future joint operations will be catastrophe for state or coalition and also defeat in achieving of air-cosmic space supremacy.

This article is focused on synopsis of intelligence and security system in USA. It describes measures and practical recommendations deduced from results of the Committee of USA Congress investigation applying to security services failure in the context of WTC attack on 11th September, 2001.

The article deals with structure and characteristic of non-combat operations and the Czech Armed Forces deployment in this type of operations. There is description of reason and cause of changes of this deployment in abroad.

The article deal with specialization of armed forces in general and with Czech Armed Forces specialization in particular. Shows that problems of specialization concern especially to the smaller countries which in this way want to share in buiding of the military capabilities of the Alliance and Europien Union.

The article deals with positions and missions of the Special Forces – parts of modern forces. There are characteristics, main tasks and using of the Special Forces that are comparable to Czech Special Forces. In conclusion there is summary of possible progress in Special Forces.

This article is a result of a lecture and follow-on discussion of participants, which took place at the Institute for Strategic Studies on October 18, 2004. This Workshop confirmed the necessity of permanent planning process improvement in accordance with the changing environment conditions. Alliance planning is focused on delivering such outputs, which will support the basic objective fulfillment of this military and political organization in the future. Czech Republic and its Armed Forces must identify changes in Alliance planning process and reflect them in its internal planning procedures. This article and the mentioned workshop aim to support such a process, which is able to identify this changes in right time and open effective ways for follow-on harmonization of national and alliance planning.

This paper responds to the discussion over defense planning in the Czech Republic, which arose after the presentation of the initial paper at the Seminar on Defense Planning held by the Strategic Studies Institute, University of Defense in Brno on the 18th October 2004. The author of this text briefly outlines the issue of “eluctance”of some NATO nations to conform with the DCI, the issue of usage of statistic information in the Czech Republic defense planning and the problem of the position of statistics in financial planning.

Risk-based decision-making in reducing security risks is based on practical approach, usually a combination of rational and cognitive theories. In risk-management analytic, cybernetic, cognitive paradigms can be applied. The article discusses the application of the analytic paradigm in risk-management in the field of defence and civil emergency planning.

The introduction to strategic studies evaluation and their impact on the strategic way of thinking. These issues are formed by subjective factors, sponsors and creators of strategic studies. Discussed are possibilities of the strategic studies evaluation and appraisal of the strategic thinking. Author demonstrates very subjective characters of the strategic thinking as one of forms of an individual thinking. He summarizes strategic studies limits and their characteristics. In the article shows possibilities of objective evaluation by proceeding of the systematic tools for analysis of the strategic studies management system.

The article discusses the principals and way of efcient acquisition realization that is on the basic of the document on the National Strategy of Armament, approved by the Government, one of the pivotal areas of armament strategy realization. Armament strategy is realized to achieve and to develop operational capabilites of the Czech Republic Armed Forces and the strategy efciency is achieved at the rst place by optimalization of processes and organizational structures of the branch and by putting through the individual systems in the spere of military material acquisition.

The article deals with problems of strategy in the Military Institute of Science. There are descriptions of function, organization and purpose of this Institute in years from 1919 to 1939 and from 1946 to 1947.

Text podává informaci o přednáškovém cyklu NATO RTO (Research and Technology Organisation) SAS-051 Lecture Series 243 "NATO Code of Best Practice (COBP) for C2 Assessment". Cyklus byl připraven panelem SAS (Studies, Analysis and Simulation) a bude realizován v průběhu podzimu 2004 ve Velké Británii, Brně a Turecku.