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Theory of Defence, or Security Science? (Keynotes for Scientific and Research Activities in the field of State Defence and Security)

Doc. PhDr. Jan Eichler, CSc.

Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 4/2006, Vol. XV. (XLVII.): 19-26

In the early 21st century defence research can be discussed in two ways: we can stay either within existing discipline "theory of state defence", or we can set up new academic specialization concentrating more on the notion "security" and its individual aspects, including their inner ties. In the former case, there are spheres in which civil and military experts can complement each other, whereas other spheres of studies ought to stay exclusively in the domain of military experts. Mutual cooperation between civilian and military experts can be concentrated on systematic studies of security threats, predictions of potential conflicts, analyses of security cooperation between the Czech Republic and NATO, the EU and the OSCE, economy support of state defence. On the contrary, military specialist ought to focus on e.g. major regional conflicts, low intensity conflicts, military operations other than war. As the term "security science" is not used in NATO nations, the author suggests, it would be more useful to preserve academic discipline "defence theory" to make full use of military experts.

The Problems of War Information

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Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 2/2006, Vol. XV. (XLVII.): 102-105

The essay summarizes several articles published in Vojenské rozhledy dealing with mass media and its activities during armed conflicts or peace-support operations. In fact, more attention to war information is paid by civilian press or books. The author, PhDr. Antonín Rašek (-ar-) cites e.g. English sociologist D. Hallin The 'The Uncensored War', D. Kellner The Persian Gulf TV War, and some books or reportages by Czech journalists and authors, K. Hvižďala, P. Procházková, V. Bělohradský, T. Halík, etc. The Vietnam War was the first televised war and it was largely uncensored. People saw the true horror of war on their television screens night after night, and that caused them to turn against the war. The media seems to be influencing the direction of government policy; the American military always claimed the media caused the war to be lost. But today, namely during the wars in Iraq, the media are blamed to be too subordinated to official policy, they present "a war of choice as a war of necessity". "Abedded" journalists and stringers sell war stories and information, their primary purpose is to make money. An example of the strict control of war information is Chechnya, closed for independent journalists and the only information available is released through official information's agencies, both Russian and opposing Chechen forces.

Location of Antiballistic Base as a Strategic Choice

Opinions, controversy

PhDr. Antonín Rašek

Vojenské rozhledy / Czech Military Review Nr. 4/2006, Vol. XV. (XLVII.): 48-54

Antiballistic defence systems could be defined as a secondary defensive response to ballistic threats, against existing, projected or planned ballistic military hardware. In a way, it is a sort of deterrence weapon, because such defence discourages opponents form the development of offensive missiles. The author of this article, the former deputy defence minister, Maj-Gen. (ret), specifies three relevant antimissiles system: ALTBM-NATO Active Layered Theatre Ballistic Missile Defence; NATO MD-NATO Missile Defence; and USA MD-USA Missile Defence. The purpose of American antiballistic defence is to counterbalance potential strokes by limited numbers of ballistic missiles, blasted off from both enemy and rogue states and those launched by accident. Allegedly, the Iranians are developing ballistic missiles with the range of 4,000 km. With the reference to the fact that the distance Prague-Teheran is about 3,400 km, and such missiles could constitute an eminent danger even for the Czech Republic, not only for the continental United States, this issue is widely discussed in Czech mass media.

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Theory of Defence, or Security Science? (Keynotes for Scientific and Research Activities in the field of State Defence and Security)

Doc. PhDr. Jan Eichler, CSc.

The Problems of War Information

Location of Antiballistic Base as a Strategic Choice

PhDr. Antonín Rašek

Umime si vladnout? Cast druha: Politicke strany

Prof. dr. Martin Potůček, CSc., MSc., PhDr. Miroslav Purkrábek, CSc., PhDr. Antonín Rašek

Evropa 2010

PhDr. Antonín Rašek

Mezinarodni politicke a vojenske organizace, organy a opatreni pro zvladani krizovych situaci

Plukovník Ing. Vladimír Šilhan, CSc., MSc

Geopolitika terorismu

Zamysleni nad bezpecnostnim vyvojem ve vztahu k Ceske republice

Ing. Antonín Krásný, CSc.

Nekolik poznamek k testovani

PhDr. Vlasta Nepivodová

Historicke reflexe a soucasne vyzvy v procesu tvorby a realizace bezpecnostni politiky

PhDr. Miloš Balabán, Ph.D.

K vojenske charakteristice operace Iracka svoboda

Doc. PhDr. Jan Eichler, CSc.

Rozvoj obrannych schopnosti Evropske unie

Plukovník Ing. Vladimír Šilhan, CSc., MSc

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PhDr. Ivo Hlaváč

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Doc. Ing. Jozef Šmondrk, Ph.D.

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Plukovník Ing. Jan Strbačka, CSc., Ing. Jan Englich

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Doc. Ing. Jiří Strnádek, CSc.

Bezpecnostni politika Ceske republikypri vstupu do Evropske unie

PhDr. Antonín Rašek

Valka budoucnosti

Ceska republika mezi mlynskymi kameny

PhDr. Miloš Balabán, Ph.D., PhDr. Antonín Rašek

Aspekty svetove integrace a globalizace

Doc. Ing. Jiří Strnádek, CSc.

Bezpecnostni strategie USA a EU - shoda i rozdily

Doc. PhDr. Jan Eichler, CSc.

Institucionalni vztah evropske bezpecnostni a obranne politiky a NATO

Bc. Jan Závěšický

Predpoklady tvorby bezpecnostni politiky po vstupu Ceske republiky do Evropske unie

PhDr. Antonín Rašek

Jake otazky otevrela valka v Iraku

Evropa 21. stoleti

františek Roček

Dusledna reforma nemeckych ozbrojenych sil

Globalizacni dilema, doktrina preventivni valkya obranne vydaje

Plukovník Ing. Jozef Rychel, Ph.D., doc. Ing. Jiří Strnádek, CSc.

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Bezpecnostni politika Ceske republiky
pri vstupu do Evropske unie

Globalizacni dilema, doktrina preventivni valky
a obranne vydaje