Vojenské Rozhledy

Czech Military Review

Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 1/2013: 113-130

The Future of Czech Defence SystemReviewed - Review

PhDr. Antonín Rašek

Methodically, presented study comes out of a book by Martin Potůček at al. Studying the Future as a Challenge. Its author offers a comprehensive characteristic of several fundamental challenges to social forecasting. It begins by defining forecasting as the formulation of conditional accounts of possible futures. The main forecasting theme to be solved are as follows: ageing Czech population as a security problem, corruption, criminality, organized crime as a tool of political and economy instability, the marginalization of Czech Armed Forces in context of globalization and overall European defence, possible threat of the collapse of Czech defence system.

Keywords: Czech Security System, social forecasting, ageing population, corruption, criminality, organized crime, marginalization of ACR, globalization, European defence concept, threat of the collapse of Czech defence system.

Published: March 15, 2013  Show citation

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Rašek, A. (2013). The Future of Czech Defence System. Czech Military Review94(1), 113-130
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