Prema novom vojnom identitetu Istočne i Srednje Evrope
Towards a New Military Identity of Eastern and Central Europe

Summary/Abstract: The author discuses the position of the army and the commanding cadres in the countries of Eastern Europe which have been passing through radical transformation during recent years. In different countries there have been different motives for the army not to intervene into the processes of political democratization but they have all abstained from stopping those processes by force and in doing so were also encouraged by the Warsaw Pact, namely by the USSR. It is difficult to foretell the future role of the military factor in those countries as well as the transformation of the armies themselves (political orientation, composition and command, changes in strategy). To a great extent these will depend on the normalization of the processes of democratization, as well as on general global, and, in the first place, European power relationships.

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