Czech Military Review, 2012 (vol. 93), issue 1
One World, Many Problems (Obama in the Second Half of his Term)Reviewed - Review
PhDr. Antonín RAŠEK
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 1/2012: 3-20 
In the middle of Obama's first presidency, several waves of criticism turned up. According to some analysts, Barrack Obama's first presidency introduces the beginning of new world's era, the so-called "post-ethnical society". The latest discussions prove that the United States have been no longer the only world's superpower, they will remain in the position of world's leader, but still aregoing to substantionally influence global arrangement. Unsuccessful and protracted wars, reflecting serious economic depression with successive debts, effect military budget cuts, even though the American Armed forces are still powerful, potent and mighty power, all...
Complex Security Management in the Czech Republic: Starting Point for Upgrading (Themes for Security Review)Reviewed - Research
PhDr. Antonín RAŠEK
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 1/2012: 21-41
Our new stance to comprehensive control of security in the international context is based upon the so-called "wider security concept". Despite various definitions,there is the consensus that a national state is not the only security subject, the classical paradigm was extended to other areas, outside military one: political, economy, financial, banking, environmental, and social. They are endorsed by security problems related to technology, energy, raw material sources, ethnical disputes, religion, together with humane rights and cultural aspects. To win the war is easy, to establish peace is difficult. Last but not least, we now have to fight and...
The Problems of Prevention of Socially Undesirable BehaviourNonreviewed - Review
Ing. Michael Hrbata
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 1/2012: 42-55
Armed forces, civilian employees, are extremely exposed to unwanted effects of socially undesirable behaviour, as they live and meet their assignments under difficult conditions, e.g. in mission abroad, separated from their relatives, spouses, wives. The best deterrence against socially undesirable behaviour is its prevention. Legally this problem is defined in the Defence Minister Order No 53/2010, The Prevention of Socially Undesirable Behaviour. According to the author M. Hrbata, Deputy Defence Minister for Personnel, we must deal with this problem in a multidisciplinary manner, in the frame of effective organizational structure, run by competent...
Operational PlanningMilitary art
Ing. Jaroslav Kulíšek
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 1/2012: 56-78
The article shows that Czech armed forces are supposed to develop planning mechanism according to the Alliance Comprehensive Operations Planning Directive (COPD) to be fully interoperable in operation planning process (OPP), namely in field operations planning in the framework of the multinational missions abroad. However, some problems persist at the operational level of crisis management, such as institutional arrangements for planning and commanding crisis operations, procedures pertaining to force generation, synchronization and activities coordination. The Czech Army Operational Planning Doctrine is still being developed. The purpose of this article...
The Total Force Policy and Some Issues of Building-Up of the Militia-Like Units in the Czech National Security SystemMilitary art
Bohuslav Pernica
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 1/2012: 79-88
The essay deals with the concept of total force policy concept and its implementation. Some facts related to the history, implementation and development of this construct are presented in context of the Czech White Paper on Defence released in 2011. In order to improve capabilities of the national armed forces system, and as well as to diminish risks related to lack of human and financial sources in face of impeding population ageing, the author suggests a return to total force concept in the Czech Republic. He admits that the experiences with this policy before 1990 will be inoperative, as there is no chance of reintroducing of compulsory military...
Financial Crisis and Its Impacts on State Budget: Sources of Anti-Crisis Strategy by Defence DepartmentOpinions, controversy
Profesor PhDr. František Ochrana, DrSc.
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 1/2012: 89-98
When the White Paper on Defence was drafted, there was lot optimism as of crisis, then only set in motion. It was regarded as a mere limited, transitional phenomenon. Nowadays we see that it is not a standard crisis known from history, but the so-called systems crises. It is a different sort of crises; we ought to respond by systems reaction in which the society should response to crisis as a whole. This paper originated as a research paper dealing with methods the Czech state should adapt to avert opening crises, with all its sectors and components, including the sector of Department of Defence. The author proposes to draw up a working document "The...
Updating Security Strategy Czech Republic 2011 (Inspirational Power of Security Community)Opinions, controversy
PhDr. Antonín RAŠEK
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 1/2012: 99-121
In September 2011 the government approved the new Security Strategy of the Czech Republic. It was important that this document was discussed and elaborated with the participation of the security community, security professionals both from the army and civil institutions or schools; among others we must state the CEVRO institute or the CESES centre, Charles University Prague. The author familiarizes readers with its contents and the history of its genesis by means of polemics with individual items of this document. In addition to general statements, there should be concrete proposals, the authors supposes, for tangible precautions, which might help...
President as the Commander-in-ChiefInformational pages
Doc. JUDr. Zdeněk Koudelka, Ph.D.
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 1/2012: 122-131
This paper depicts the position of the Czech President as the head of state and the commander-in-chief of the Czech Armed Forces, including his special relation to Defence Minister who actually runs defence department. The President is superior to all members of armed forces of the Czech Republic; the Chief of General Staff is superior to all members of the Army of the Czech Republic.The President formally and officially controls all the military organizations in a country. But we have no tradition of independent of armed deployment in war conflicts. Our forces operated always as a part of higher multinational coalitions, in joined combined groupings,...
The Current State and Trends in Space SecurityInformational pages
Ing. Vladimír Šilhan, CSc., MSc.
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 1/2012: 132-147
Space applications and use of satellite data became an important tool for production and development of many companies and institutions, as well as indispensable part of our daily lives, when using e.g. satellite navigation or TV broadcasting. Proper functioning of those services, however, requires the security of space assets at the orbits, their ground stations and the transmition links. The basic threat for space assets is the growing number of debris at the orbits. Space Situation Awareness has a growing importance and sharing information among all main space actors becomes a pre-requisite. Efforts to agree on common guidelines to mitigate possible...
Simulation Potentials in Logistics Training and SchoolingMilitary professional
Prof. Ing. Petr Hajna, CSc., Ing. Zdeněk Březovský, por. Ing. Petra Kvapilová
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 1/2012: 148-154
With regard to changing external and internal surroundings of MoD and the creation and transfer of IT knowledge, it is necessary in practice to implementimprovements in logistics database and functionality of the so-called Logistics Information System MoD, during the whole cycle of managing, i.e. in the in the areas of sequential management and continuous management functions, depicted in this article. The paper presents results gained from a survey about the knowledge of logistics study models, academic and science projects, in Logistics Department of University of Defence Brno. The purpose of the paper is to compare student's knowledge and ability...
Public Sector Economy in Management PracticeMilitary professional
Ing. Svatopluk Kunc
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 1/2012: 155-161
There is an ambiguous relation as far as management and economy in public sector are concerned. Using the example of British army, the author explains the roots and consequences of changes in the field of source management and compares collected results with the situation in the CR. Both public sector and the Army of the Czech Republic (ACR) are administratively ordered and controlled and meeting the army goals that are not conditioned by economy results. The accounting books do not offer true picture of army possession and properties, among others because the current accountancy system that is not able to classify individual operations, military goals...
Open Gates for LanguagesLanguage preparation
PaedDr. Stanislava Jonáková, Mgr. Alena Müllerová
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 1/2012: 162-168
The article reflects contemporary issues in the field of language teaching. The University of Defence tries to react flexibly to new situations in the educational process in the European society. Its task is to enhance professional competences of its students and prepare them for their future career in the multilingual globalized environment. The authors, who are language teachers at the University of Defence, describe the procedure of creating an instructional material for their courses of Russian language. The lessons of their textbook have been designed to improve speaking and writing skills in Russian and thus to prepare students for the departmental...
The Implementation of ICT to Foreign Language Instruction at the University of DefenceLanguage preparation
RNDr. Eva Staňková, Mgr. Lenka Slunečková
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 1/2012: 169-174
The paper presents a case study of the systematic implementation of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to foreign language instruction at the University of Defence (UoD) in Brno. It provides an overview of methods, applications and technologies used in English language training and presents teaching experience gained by the authors. The ICT enable the educators to tailor the language courses to suit their students' needs, and offers numbers of possibilities to deliver the educational content in an interesting and activating way in line with the UoD curriculum and the Ministry of Defence demands.
Captain in Memoriam Walter Hecht: War Veteran, 311th Czech Bomb Squadron, RAFPersonal data
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 1/2012: 175-176
He came from a problem region of Silesia, where three nationalities quarrelled each other: the Czechs, the Poles and the Germans. After Polish occupation of Silesia, he was expelled from the country by new Polish authorities as a "politically undesirable" person. He and his fiancée left their native land. In England he volunteered the Czechoslovak Army abroad. As a soft technician in 1941 he became an air mechanic and repaired navigational and control devices of badly damaged airplanes. By unhappy mischance, he was knocked down by a bus. He died at military air force hospital. After his death he was decorated by Czechoslovak War Cross 1939, Military...