Review article
WARFARE IN THE 21ST CENTURY – POSTMODERNISM OR RETURN TO THE 19TH CENTURY
Stjepan Domjančić
orcid.org/0000-0001-5964-5004
; Hrvatsko vojno učilište „Petar Zrinski“ Ministarstva obrane Republike Hrvatske
Abstract
Warfare in the 21st century was significantly marked by military fleeing from strategic issues and using operational or even tactical levels of activity. These operational and tactical levels are shaped by militaries as policy-free zones. In the military perception that has become the last safehaven of military expertise, which is autonomous and free from the increasing number of civilian elements in the mosaic of civil-military relations. On the other hand, modern militaries create doctrinal and planning models of conducting operations, which are technologically exclusive and rooted in tactical detailing. All of this indicates a chronic lack of understanding of strategy, a lack of real strategic thinkers and the need for analyzing military and political relations in the new post-modern age. It can be said that civil-military relations, therefore, are going through an extremely dynamic and sensitive period, both in the military, and society, which according to the extent of implications this entails, can be comparable with the period of the establishment of the nation-state and may even go further.
Keywords
warfare; strategic level; operational level; postmodernism; doctrinal and planning models
Hrčak ID:
98578
URI
Publication date:
27.12.2012.
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