Czech Military Review, 2016 (vol. 97), MC
Czech Defence Policy Response to Dynamics in Security Environment DevelopmentReviewed - Review
Josef PROCHÁZKA, Ph.D., Mgr. Lukáš DYČKA, Jakub LANDOVSKÝ, Ph.D.
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. MC/2016: 3-17 
The paper assesses the conceptual framework for Czech defence policy formulation in the wake of a rapid change in its security environment after Russia's annexation of Crimea in March 2014 and the subsequent Russian support for separatists in Ukraine's eastern provinces and growing instability in the Middle East and North Africa. The article examines key measures taken in the political, military, administrative, economical and societal domains in order to evaluate the overall effectiveness of Czech defence policy. Finally, the authors offer several strategic level recommendations to enhance responsiveness and preparedness of the Czech defence system...
Transformational Military Leadership - Requirements, Characteristics and DevelopmentReviewed - Review
plk. Drazen Smiljanic, MSc.
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. MC/2016: 18-48
The contemporaneous security environment is more diverse, dynamic, interconnected and far less predictable than ever. As the major Western militaries undergo continuous changes in missions and tasks, as well as in the form of their organisations, the warfighting abilities of military leaders are not the only ones required. Transformational military leadership, with leaders operating from the post-conventional level of developmental action-logic, arguably become one of the most needed capacities of a military organisation. This type of leadership has to be capable of initiating and leading transformational changes, needed to respond adequately and adaptively...
Free-Riding Problem in AllianceReviewed - Review
Jakub Odehnal
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. MC/2016: 49-60
Long-term cuts in military expenditures of European allied countries caused growing differences within the Alliance which can be seen in uneven sharing of military burden and in behaviour called free-riding. The aim of this contribution is to define possible approaches to the freeriding identification and to analyse military expenditure development in relation to conclusions and recommendations declared at the NATO Summit in 2014. The results of military expenditure analysis identify only a small group of countries which, from a long-term point of view, follow the recommendations of the Alliance in the form of allocating a corresponding amount as percentage...
Methods of Strategic Analysis Used by Strategic Documents Processing in the Ministry of DefenceReview
Monika Grasseová-Motyčková, Jiří Richter
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. MC/2016: 61-81
The most frequently used methods during strategic documents processing at the Ministry of Defence are group discussion, brainstorming, discussion and analysis of stakeholders. SWOT analysis and other methods are represented in less than a fifth of cases. The research results show that some methods are used in methodologically wrong way, meanwhile, the most common method used is intuition based on experience. Implementation of strategic analysis usually encounters at the Ministry of Defence a lot of barriers. The article describes the results of research in this area and presents some recommendations for improvement, particularly synergistic use of...
Analytical Support to Norwegian Long-Term Defence PlanningReviewed - Review
Sigurd Glærum, Alf Christian Hennum
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. MC/2016: 82-91
A major challenge in defence planning is to establish a clear audit trail between security challenges, political ambitions and the recommended force structure. This paper describes a capability- and scenario-based methodology combined with a software toolset called JDARTS that gives long term defence planners a systematic approach to create links from high level security challenges to force structure recommendations. The security challenges are represented by mission types exemplified by scenarios which give concrete requirements. These requirements are represented by capabilities which are matched against the capabilities of force structure elements....
Drafting EU Global Security StrategyReviewed - Review
Cristina Bogzeanu, Ph.D.
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. MC/2016: 92-103
Although the EU global security strategy has to offer orientation on multiple levels and domains, the present paper approaches the challenges emerging from the Union's eastern neighbourhood. The argumentation includes theoretical aspects of strategy, main characteristics of the Black Sea security environment, trends of frozen conflict evolution, and the EU's approach in this entire context. The study concludes that the serious challenges the EU faces nowadays in its eastern vicinity are the result of phenomena with a consistent history and deficient management by the EU. In our opinion, this train of events¨makes the project of a new EU security...
Hybrid Warfare - Cases of Croatia and UkraineReviewed - Review
gen. plk. Dr. sc. Slavko Barić, plk. Dr.sc. Jugoslav Jozić, pplk. Dr.sc. Robert Barić, MSc.
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. MC/2016: 104-123
Despite the attempts of labeling hybrid warfare as a new form of warfare or even as a factor that is changing the nature of war, hybrid warfare is part of a war from the Antiquity to the present day. The essence of hybrid warfare is in parallel use of regular and irregular military forcesand different means of pressure by a power unwilling to openly attack a weaker opponent. Information dimension is analyzed in the cases of hybrid warfare against Croatia (1990-91) and Ukraine (2014). In both cases the key target of hybrid warfare was social cohesion of the attacked countries. In the Croatian case, despite a strong propaganda campaign followed by the...
From Subcultural Groupings to Actors of Hybrid WarfareReviewed - Review
prof. JUDr. PhDr. Miroslav Mareš, Ph.D.
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. MC/2016: 124-134
This article deals with transformation of several categories of subcultural groupings to real or potential actors of hybrid warfare. It is based on trends and events related to the Ukrainian crisis and to the new Russian power projection in Central and Eastern Europe, as well as on the reaction of governments and societies which are threatened by this way of warfare and politics. Research on subcultures and research on strategy and conflict form the conceptual framework of the article. The author analyses the role of military re-enactment groups, bikers, football hooligans and other youth subcultural groups. The risk analysis serves for an assessment...