Czech Military Review, 2023 (vol. 104), issue 2
Update on the United States Nuclear Strategy: from NPR 2018 to NPR 2022Reviewed - Research
Adam Potočňák
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 2/2023: 3-22 
The article follows the author's comparative analysis of American and Russian nuclear doctrines and armaments from the fall of 2021. It presents the current nuclear strategy of the United States of America based on a content analysis of three specific areas of the updated version of the Nuclear Posture Review. Applying interpretive analysis and a rich secondary sources apparatus, the author also reflects on his 2021-formulated assumptions and expectations about the further development of American nuclear strategy under President Joe Biden. The author analyzes the influence of the presidential administration's ideological and political ambitions together...
Does the government's defence funding bill really only create an unenforceable political commitment?Reviewed - Review
Jan Kudrna
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 2/2023: 23-34
The article is devoted to the draft law on defence financing, which aims to oblige the government to allocate an amount of at least 2% of GDP to defence in every draft law on the state budget. During the inter-ministerial comment procedure, the Supreme Audit Office expressed doubts whether the draft means anything more than an unenforceable political commitment in relation to the Chamber of Deputies". The article convincingly demonstrates, with the help of legal argumentation and interpretation of the Constitution of the Czech Republic, the Rules of Procedure of the Chamber of Deputies, as well as the established case law of the Constitutional Court...
Use of Methods of Strategic and Decision-making Analysis in the Process of Creating Conceptual Documents of the MoD CZEReviewed - Research
Eva Štěpánková, Kristýna Binková
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 2/2023: 35-51
The aim of the paper is to determine the extent of the use of strategic and decision-making analysis methods and the specifics and barriers of their practical application in the process of creating conceptual documents in the Ministry of Defense of the Czech Republic. In the qualitative research, a semi-structured questionnaire was created for the purpose of data collection and submitted to eighteen creators of the department's conceptual documents. The obtained data were evaluated by open coding according to the grounded theory, one of the methods of systematizing qualitative data. The results show that the methods are used, but informally or in a...
French military interventions in MENAP countries during the 2010sReviewed - Review
Jan Eichler
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 2/2023: 52-66
The article is about six French Special Military Operations (SMOs) that were conducted in Islamic countries in the MENA region between 2011 and 2022. It provides an explanation of their historical, geopolitical, and military contexts while also assessing their compliance with international law. The text introduces two innovative concepts, the Holland doctrine and the Macron doctrine, and analyses both their successes and failures. Ultimately, the article concludes by addressing the question of why these SMOs achieved military success but failed to meet political objectives, resulting in a significant disillusionment among French political and military...
Situation Analysis of the Security Education and Training System in the Republic of BulgariaReviewed - Research
Stoyko Stoykov, Elitsa Petrova
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 2/2023: 67-82
The purpose of the article is to present a situational analysis of the education and training system in the field of security in the Republic of Bulgaria in 2021, in which internal and external threats, strengths and weaknesses, problem areas and possible solutions will be highlighted. The subject of the article is the education and training system, as the specific subject is the education and training system in the field of security in the Republic of Bulgaria.
Introduction of Autonomous Combat Vehicles into the Czech Armed ForcesReviewed - Review
Jan Kovanda
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 2/2023: 83-97
The article addresses the issue of the emergence of new technologies and their impact on the capabilities of the Czech Armed Forces (CAF). A summary of the recommendations is presented. In particular, there is a need for a conceptual approach to the integration of new systems in order to avoid spontaneous purchasing, which could be very logistically demanding. The very rapid development in the field of unmanned autonomous systems using elements of artificial intelligence offers opportunities to use them in support of the tasks of CAF. Due to the breadth of this issue, the scope is limited to the area of the Special Forces, which introduce these new...
The C5ISR System Integrated with Unmanned Aircraft in the Large-Scale Combat OperationsReviewed - Review
Marko Radovanović, Aleksandar Petrovski, Vinko Žnidaršič
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 2/2023: 98-118
The manner of conducting modern large-scale combat operations (LSCOs) is characterized by the increasingly frequent and diverse use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) integrated into the Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4IRS) system. These aircraft are one of the most important types of weapons in modern LSCOs. Anyone that has the technology can process the latest information from the field and safely passes that information to the command center has a great advantage and a chance to cause great damage to units whose goal is to prevent further operational work. What is important is that UAVs...
Humanitarian Transit Camp For Refugees. Construction and Operation Experiences.Nonreviewed - Other
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 2/2023: 119-134
An article describes a humanitarian camp at Mokraď in Slovakia, built up by the Czech Army in cooperation with the Armed Forces of Slovak republic, as a reaction on refugee crises caused by the war in Ukraine. All phases of the development, preparation, movement and transportation, construction and operation are mentioned there, an internal structure, used technical means and involvement of personnel, lessons identified and recommendations included, leading to increase of efficiency of similar activities in the future.
Printed 100 years agoNonreviewed - Other
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Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 2/2023: 135-140
Dear readers,We would like to present to you an article published in our journal in No. 6/1923. It is the contribution by Corporal Rudolf Dejmek "The Battle of Zborov Memory".You can read or download the continuation of this article on the website of our journal www.vojenskerozhledy.cz in the Archive menu.