Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 1/2014: 4-7
Why the Czech Republic Should Have a Defence PolicyNonreviewed - Other
Even though we have several concept documents: Security Strategy, Defence Policy, our armed forces are fragmentized by doubtful laws into autonomous sections, Army of the Czech Republic, Castle Guard, Military Office of the President, Military Intelligence. We lack a binding political assignment on defence policy. The Defence White Book was a serious attempt to introduce this problem among members of government, parliament. But it was ineffectual. The officials did not respond, contented with emergency arrangements. Alarms bell. Supposing the politicians are not involved in defence policy, we should lose our Alliance credibility, later on even Alliance collective security.
Keywords: Concept documents, binding political assignment, defence policy, White Paper on Defence, emergency arrangements, Alliance credibility, Alliance collective security.
Published: March 15, 2014 Show citation
