Czech Military Review, 2017 (vol. 98), issue 2
Methodologic Framework for Military Capability Assessment of Armed Forces of the Czech RepublicReviewed - Review
Zdeněk Petráš
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 2/2017: 3-17 
The aim of the article is to present a synthesis of findings from both analyses and their application while conceiving a proposal of methodology for military capability assessment of Armed Forces of the Czech Republic. The proposed approach to capability assessment stems from principles of the NATO´s J-DARTS (Joint Defence Planning Analysis and Requirements Tool Set) and EU´s SAEP (Scrutinising, Assessing, Evaluating and Prioritising Process) when the main attention was focused on the phase of matching current capabilities of force units against capability requirements, follow-on identification of shortfalls and their prioritisation. The degree of...
Scenarios, Development, Internal Structure Scenarios and Security ThreatsReviewed - Review
Josef Melichar
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 2/2017: 18-32
The article deals with the topic of scenarios in relation to their significance, internal structure development and the way of elaborating scenarios following links to security threats and mission types. Article describes possible way of structuring set of scenarios reflecting security threats stated in The Security strategy of the Czech Republic and corresponding mission types. Main methodology exploited during the work with the topic of scenarios was document analysis, which resulted in finding, that scenarios don't enjoy appropriate attention in the defence resort of the Czech Republic, scenarios are not elaborated and thus not exploited. The article...
Professional Soldiers Act Within the Czech Legal System (on the Issues of Certain Terms Interpretation)Reviewed - Review
Leopold Skoruša, Ondřej Horák, Radim Vičar, Tomáš Zbořil
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 2/2017: 33-43
The article deals with the general considerations on the relationship between Public and Private Law and on the relationship of the Professional Soldiers Act (Act no. 221/1999 Coll., on Professional Soldiers) to other legal regulations. The contribution also defines and interprets certain terms (family, household/shared household, close person, child, spouse/partner) at which demonstrates the combination of both legislative branches. It attempts to demonstrate that the laws so called armed legislation, particularly the Professional Soldiers Act is not a world closed on itself, but rather an area that is a part of the unified legal system linked to...
Development and Change of the Concept of Hybrid WarReviewed - Review
Richard Stojar
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 2/2017: 44-55
The aim of the paper is description and analysis of the transformation of the concept of hybrid war. The Russian intervention in Ukraine in 2014 meant principal re-definition of the concept which is reflected in the contemporary views on the hybrid wars and hybrid threats. The concept of hybrid war had been questioned in the past already as his validity and the efforts to be applied on the past conflicts deformed its innovative content. One could argue, that adding new dimensions and topic such as economic factors, ideological activity etc. brings risk of concept´s expansion which goes far behind of the framework of the phenomenon of the war and the...
Security Discourse of the Russian Federation on the Energy Relations with the EU in 2012-2017Reviewed - Review
Lukáš Tichý
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 2/2017: 56-72
The article explores the energy security relations between Russia and the EU. The aims of this article are two. The first is to analyze the content and basic themes of the Russian security discourse on energy relations with the EU in 2012-2017. The second is to interpret the influence of norms and values in the energy security discourse on identity and interests of Russia in the studied period. Security discourse of the Russian Federation focuses on defending Russian diversification projects to strengthen EU energy security. In the security discourse, Russia in relations with the EU de-securitizes the issue of energy when it presents itself as the...
Financing of TerrorismReviewed - Review
Josef Smolík, Veronika Svatošová
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 2/2017: 73-88
The issue of terrorism is becoming increasingly important on the level of social, economic, political and security. The threat of terrorism affects at the same time, societal and cultural events. Professional and academic discussion addresses the causes and possible consequences of this phenomenon. To understand the implications of terrorism, it is necessary to look at this issue from the perspective of terms of its financing. This review study aims to define the term financing of terrorism on the one hand, but also to identify possible sources of financing of terrorism, including the most used payment methods by terrorist organizations. This study...
Neorealism and Contemporary US-Russian Military Competition in the Post-Soviet SpaceReviewed - Review
Jan Eichler
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 2/2017: 89-105
In the light of neorealist theory, the Eastern enlargement of NATO satisfies basic feature of expansion: 9 former countries of the Warsaw Pact become members of NATO. USA as a Sea power reinforced its superiority at the detriment of the RF as a continental power. The annexation of Crimea, as a Russian answer, had intensified security fears of post - Soviet countries and of Poland and enlarged the space for external balancing of the USA. Author warns that a confrontational structure had become typical for the area or the Western part of the Post - Soviet space. It increases the number of military incidents, and, even, the threat of a direct military...
The Importance of Development Trends Analysis and its Military Implications for Defense PlanningNonreviewed - Other
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 2/2017: 106-119
Participation of experts form NATO member and partner countries in security situation development trends together with related military implications is meanwhile the newest mean of member states engagement onto NATO Defence Planning. In one hand this possibility is a way to gain findings from national experts and in other hand an opportunity enabling countries to enlarge knowledge and experience of national participants in order to development of similar activities at national level. Moreover there is an opportunity to present activities of nations´ institutions working in the similar field as well as national findings linked to security trends and...
Some Aspects of Biological Defence in the Czech Armed Forces ConditionsNonreviewed - Other
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 2/2017: 120-136
The paper deals with general aspects of problems of biological warfare agents and toxic industrial biologicals understanding from the point of view of protection against their effects and a possibility of specialists´ cooperation. The aim of the paper is to point to some problematic aspects of biological defense realization in connection to experiences from their historical usage. With the help of analysis of current strategical and operational documents and synthesis of available experiences from operational deployment of medical service and chemical corps units variants of optimization of current state have been proposed. These ones are main conclusion...
Application Equipment as an Alternative to the Field Artillery Automated Fire Control System of the Czech Republic ArmyNonreviewed - Other
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 2/2017: 137-149
The paper deals with the Czech artillery application equipment for enabling more efficient execution of classical ways of some measures in case of malfunction of the field artillery automated fire control system. The first part of the paper includes an analysis of Czech artillery current software and the introduction of two developed software. This two developed software are under finishing works and they should partly eliminate the poor Czech artillery software equipment. On the basis of the synthesis of author's experiences followed from the development of two new programs PVNPG-14 and ArtyCalc there are defined key principles in the paper, that...
Military diplomacy - A View from the OutsideNonreviewed - Other
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 2/2017: 150-159
This article discusses the issues of the Czech military diplomacy carried out by military, air, naval or defence attachés accredited in foreign countries in order to uphold the national security and defence interests. The main emphasis of this article is put on the evaluation of current state and legal bases of military diplomacy of the Czech Republic. The article aims to identify and analyse the challenges (1) the Czech diplomacy is currently faced with and to propose viable solutions (2) which could possibly contribute to better coordination and effectiveness of the Czech military diplomacy.
Vyšší velitel, jeho osobnost a posláníNonreviewed - Other
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 2/2017: 160-174