NATIONAL RESERVE FORCES: FROM DEFENSIVE SUFFICIENCY TO CREDIBLE DETERRENCE
NATIONAL RESERVE FORCES: FROM DEFENSIVE SUFFICIENCY TO CREDIBLE DETERRENCE

Summary/Abstract: The article aims to emphasize the importance of establishing the national reserve forces’ as to ensure Romania’s national security, under the circumstances of the recent evolutions in the conflict typology. Starting with a hybrid war’s concise description, the necessity of the national forces’ role is being reassessed within the security and establishment of the volunteer reserve equation, important conditions in creating the most favourable conditions of accomplishing the sufficiency of discouragement. The generous potential provided by the reserve forces is presented in terms of cost/efficiency (by analyzing the NATO-member states experience in reserve forces employment) as well as in terms of mission spectrum they are suitable for (involvement in military actions, combat forces regeneration, civil emergency situations management, conscripts’ drill etc.). The article concludes with an assessment of the national reserve force’ establishment perspective (10 – 20 years) and prerequisites (political assumption, budgeting, legal framework).

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