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The White Paper and my Alliance Experience

Author(s): Jiří Šedivý
Subject(s): Politics, Security and defense, Military policy
Published by: Univerzita obrany - Centrum bezpečnostních a vojenskostrategických studií
Keywords: White Paper on Defence; Capability Based Planning; Smart Defence; Knowledge Management; Sources Management; NATO New Strategy Concept; Defence Budget Cuts

Summary/Abstract: At the time of forming the team around a designated defence minister Alexander Vondra, in the early summer 2010, there was no doubt that we need a complex concept document, able to analyze and describe the then situation, to readjust directions and goals for defence department, so that it could stimulate the follow-up transformation of Czech Army. The author, who used to be one of the leading Defence Ministry officials, thus made use of his experiences he gained in NATO structures. He gives an apt, well-founded, and first hand description of key points of this very fresh military history.

  • Issue Year: 22/2013
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 15-22
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Czech