Međunarodne studije, Vol. V No. 2, 2005.
Pregledni rad
The Transformation of the Croatian Armed Forces in Their Movement Towards the NATO Alliance
Slavko Barić
; Zamjenik načelnika GS OS RH
Sažetak
Transformation of the armed forces is a real challenge for most of the European countries, even for the USA. Starting from revolution in the domain of military affairs, the challenge of transformation becomes a · key element in building armed forces capable to respond to the new security challenges. Republic of Croatia wants to become NATO member, which poses the imperative of transformation to entire Croatian society and the armed forces. Transformation of the Croatian armed forces needs to be developed as a permanent process of building new capabilities with which the Croatian armed forces are going to respond to the new security challenges. In the process of transformation of the Croatian armed forces very important question is the one of building professional army. This challenge is specially actual in transitional countries. For Croatia, where the armed forces were created during the war, this presents also a crucial political issue. For that reason it is necessary to bave support of all national institutions in the process of transformation of the armed forces and Croatian integration to the NATO. Croatia needs to reform its armed forces ina way that would primarily serve Croatian national interests, but also to contribute to the NATO capabilities.
Ključne riječi
transformation of the armed forces; security challenges; NATO
Hrčak ID:
289849
URI
Datum izdavanja:
15.4.2005.
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