Czech Military Review, 2024 (vol. 105), issue 1
Development of the Czech Armed Forces Doctrinal FrameworkReviewed - Research
Pavel Žižka, Richard Saibert
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 1/2024: 3-20 
The article deals with the system of joint doctrine development in the Czech Armed Forces (CAF) focused on the operational level of command and control, including the implementation of the NATO doctrines into national conditions. Among others, it was found that the structure and content of the Czech doctrines are not systematically set. Allied doctrines are introduced either by rewriting them into the Czech version or by introducing them in the full English version. In both cases, it might cause inconsistency in military terminology. The Coordinating Committee as the only supervisory body does not have the authority to streamline the process of producing...
Strategic Defence Analysis and Setting the Future Defence Strategy: A Comparison of the Czech Republic and NorwayReviewed - Research
Josef Melichar, Fabian Baxa, Vladimír Vyklický, Josef Procházka
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 1/2024: 21-39
The article brings a comparison of the approaches to the strategic defence analysis (SDA) and developing future Defence Concepts (DFDC) of the Czech Republic and Norway. The countries are in a different geopolitical situation, NOR being a country with borders that are part of the outer border of the Alliance, the Czech Republic being a country surrounded by three member countries of the Alliance and one PfP country. On the basis of the comparison of the two approaches, the authors identified differences and common points of the two. Based on the findings, the discussion provides inspiration for possible enhancements in the approach of the Czech Republic...
Active Measures Concept Deconstruction Through the Lenses of Information InfluenceReviewed - Research
Miroslava Pačková
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 1/2024: 40-62
This study deconstructs the concept of active measures through the prism of information influence. It understands it as sophisticated methods of influencing public opinion and political decisions, originally used by the Soviet Union and now adapted to cyberspace by the Russian Federation. In the analysis, the concept is contrasted with the general abstraction of information influence. This helps to better understand the proximity of active measures to similar concepts. We conclude that abstractions of information influence are also valid for conceptual understanding and practical examples of contemporary Russian active measures. Active measures are...
Cognitive Warfare as a New Dimension of Security. A Fictional Concept or a Real Silent Threat?Reviewed - Review
Kristýna Drmotová, Libor Kutěj
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 1/2024: 63-83
Cognitive warfare is a new phenomenon that differs from any forms of action previously used in the information space aiming to affect the thinking of target groups. The main difference consists in the targeted and sophisticated use of scientific knowledge from neuroscience, with special attention on consciousness and perception of reality. This deeper understanding of how the human mind works has impacted distributed narratives and the choice of the most suitable technological platforms for their distribution to the target audience. This article presents a conceptual classification of cognitive warfare and defines its three core segments: neuroscience,...
Crowdsourcing as an Element of Strategic-Operational Intelligence. How NATO Used it and Changed the GameReviewed - Review
Karel Pešek, Jozef Vojtek, Libor Kutěj
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 1/2024: 84-104
The article focuses on the concept of crowdsourcing in the social networking environment as a new phenomenon involving civilians in the intelligence process, enabling the use of their intelligence potential during armed conflict. Crowdsourcing of the civilian population is introduced by the example of NATO intervention during the first civil war in Libya. The article presents its use during the intelligence process at the strategic-operational level of command and control of the armed forces. It establishes its possible definition as a collection method of the intelligence process, and as a collection method which is disjunctively separable from similar...
The Security-Development Nexus in Practice: Lessons Learned from the US Provincial Reconstruction Team in Panjshir in AfghanistanReviewed - Review
Zdeněk Rod
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 1/2024: 105-126
The article holistically assesses the US application of security-development nexus (SDN) through the most known example of SDN in practice - provincial reconstruction teams (PRTs) - to elucidate what lessons learned can be drawn from there. The PRT's unique small footprint approach aimed to skip combat phases and focus on development in Panjshir. The research detected fourteen lessons learned from PRT's Panjshir wrongdoings and relatively successful initiatives. Lessons learned include defining mission objectives, early identification of instability sources, unified funding, emphasis on security sector reform, cultural awareness, empowering locals,...
Testing of Pilots Abilities on Flight SimulatorsReviewed - Research
Rudolf Jalovecký
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 1/2024: 127-144
The article presents more than ten years of experience in testing the abilities of pilots during flight control on flight simulators. A hypothesis is stated about the possibilities of finding common features in flight control, the basic mathematical apparatus for evaluation is presented, the flight simulators used and, of course, the achieved results are presented. 110 pilots have already been tested and a total of 2360 missions - test flights - have been simulated. Subsequent mathematical analysis provided approximately 40,000 results suitable for further statistical processing. This amount of data obtained from realistically simulated flights provides...
Review of the Author´s Monography - Jiří FidlerNonreviewed - Other
Jan Eichler
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 1/2024: 145-148
The personality of the seventh Czechoslovak president, army general Ludvík Svoboda, is well known to older generations, younger generations are aware of him because of the controversies of recent times. Although there are many biographies of Svoboda, they are mostly determined by the time of their creation and the effort to avoid naming the problems of the time.
Printed 100 years agoNonreviewed - Other
redakce
Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 1/2024: 149-159
Dear readers,We would like to present to you an article published in our journal in No. 1/1924. It is the contribution by CPT R. Wolf "Essence of war".You can read or download the continuation of this article on the website of our journal www.vojenskerozhledy.cz in the Archive menu.