Czech Military Review, 2018 (vol. 99), issue 1
Prognostics Methods of Security PhenomenaReviewed - Review
Josef Smolík
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 1/2018: 3-23 
This article describes the basic terms used in prognostics (future studies, forecasting the future, prognosis, prediction, expert) and introduces selected prognostic methods and techniques which could be applied in security area (brainstorming, focus group, trend extrapolation, Delphi method, scenarios etc.). The basic classifications and prognosis typologies are mentioned as well. Particular phases of prognosis making are described too. For the Czech security community the prognosis making has an important potential whose outcomes (of particular surveys) should be manifest in following years. This text has only tried to outline selected methods and...
Implementation of Capability Assessment Process within the Armed Forces of the Czech RepublicReviewed - Review
Zdeněk Petráš
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 1/2018: 25-43
The article thematically completes a series of articles which subject was to present outcomes of analyses focused on national as well as NATO and EU capability planning processes. Synthesis of analysis outcomes resulted in conceiving a methodologic framework for military capability assessment, whereas the first phase of this framework, i.e. configuration of the national capability requirements database, has been already described in the previous edition of the Czech Military Review. So this article details final phases of the proposed methodological framework, which are set of reference units and mechanism for matching capability requirements against...
Information Support of Human Resources Management in Sector of DefenseReviewed - Review
Zdeněk Bednář
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 1/2018: 45-67
The article deals with the Information Support of Human Resources Management of the Ministry of Defense in terms of providing information on the quantity and quality of the personnel of the department for decision making processes. The first part describes the tools and methods of analysis for processing this information. The second part provides practical examples of this information support. On the basis of analytical studies the status of staff is presented in 2015 and 2016, supplemented by comments from the author, indicating possible ways of presenting and using this information in Human Resource Management. The author of the article, which presents...
Auftragstaktik: the Origin and Development of the Philosophy to the Command in the 21st CenturyReviewed - Review
Pavel Kolář, Tomáš Rak
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 1/2018: 69-83
This article deals with one of the approaches to command - Mission Command - which can be seen as a dominant command philosophy in NATO nations and especially in the United States. This approach is considered as a very important in terms of possible responses to the challenges having impact on current and future security environment. Respective parts of this article describe the military causes and related historical consequences based on which the mentioned command philosophy had been constructed. The relevant parts describe basic principles of Auftragstaktik, developed and implemented by Prussian and later on by German military leaders which aim...
Combat Use of Light Infantry: Tactics with LMV IvecoReviewed - Review
Karel Zetocha
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 1/2018: 85-105
Light Infantry units are primarily equipped with the Iveco light armored vehicles in the Army of the Czech Republic. Similar type of vehicles was acquired by the armies of some other NATO members. Armored LMVs represent a new category of equipment and no specific tactical procedures have yet been created. The aim of the text was to develop general tactical light infantry procedures for the current training needs of units with Iveco LMVs. In the text, combat battle drills on vehicles and tactical procedures for the use of light units equipped with the LMV Iveco have been created. Combat deployment experience and results of live simulation were main...
The Development of Personnel Recovery in Military OperationsNonreviewed - Other
Jiří Svoboda
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 1/2018: 107-114
Personnel Recovery is currently an inseparable part of all NATO military operations. This article is focused on the development of the Personnel Recovery in military operations from the Second World War to the 2003 Iraq War. It describes the meaning of the concept of Personnel Recovery, introduces its basic aims including the clarification of its importance in military operations. It focuses on the identification of conditions that determine the existence of the rescue system. In the historical context, it describes the circumstances of development of the recovery of isolated personnel, including its incorporation into a functional system. It identifies...
The Evolution of the Hybrid Threat, and Resilience as a CountermeasureNonreviewed - Other
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 1/2018: 115-123