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Challenges of Reform and the Reduction of Croatian Armed Forces: Politics of Personnel Management as a Consequence of War Events and of the Establishment of Croatia’s Armed Forces
Zvonimir Mahečić
Sažetak
At the beginning of the war in the former Yugoslavia newly recognised Republic of the Croatia didn’t have its indigenous Armed Forces. They were established during the War from 1991. onwards. As a consequence, all (with some limitations) the citizens who wanted to contribute to the defence of the country were allowed to join first “Zbor Narodne Garde” and later the Armed Forces. During the process, because of the more or less logical and understandable reasons personnel was not subject to the fulfilment of the clear set of
criteria for joining the Armed Forces. As a consequence today the Armed Forces are faced with the fact that a part of its personnel is not capable of responding to the social, technological, intellectual, operational and other demands of the changed security environment of today that reflects so decisively security and defence structures of the nation. The same shortcomings influence fundamental reform and downsizing of the Armed Forces partly because transition of the surplus military personnel to the civilian life and structures is hampered by the grave organisational, financial and psychological demands. Having in mind the elements that facilitated existence of the negative selection in the personnel management policy, politicisation of at least one part of the Armed Forces and lack of
understanding of the military and security issues on the part of the political institutions, it becomes clear that whole society is faced with the problem whose resolution asks for the systematic and co ordinated approach of all the political institutions, as well as institutions of the civil society.
Ključne riječi
personell management; defence reform, downsizing of the personell; security and defence structures; creation of the Armed Forces; structure of the personell
Hrčak ID:
2736
URI
Datum izdavanja:
31.12.2003.
Posjeta: 2.268 *