Professional paper
The Current Model and the Proposal for the Future Formation of the Military Reserve in the Republic of Slovenia
Slobodan Čurčija
orcid.org/0000-0002-3687-7184
; Croatian Defence Academy "Dr. Franjo Tuđman"
Ernest Pleh
orcid.org/0000-0002-3404-2351
; Defence Inspectorate of the Republic of Slovenia
Abstract
The security of a country is not ensured just by joining NATO and the EU, but the power of the alliance is based on the strength of individual member states that maintain and develop their defence systems as part of the national security. Since the end of the Cold War until today, there is no longer a threat of a major conflict of the bipolar system, so the majority of the European countries have embarked on the transformation of their armed forces from the large-scale concept of general defence to the concept of collective defence, accompanied by a large reduction of the armed forces and by the professionalization of the military. Consequently, in most European countries, compulsory military service has been abolished or frozen. The concept of new recruitment and manning of the armed forces began to be based on a voluntary approach and has remained as such in recent times. Likewise, the Slovenian Armed Forces have gone through a long way of transition and transformation from independence until today in order to adapt to the requirements of the alliance and the trends of the modern times. Accordingly, military service has been frozen, the armed forces have been professionalized, the permanent peacetime composition of the armed forces is being reduced, and such a trend affects the military reserve as well. At the same time, the military organization faces the challenges of funding and manning. The Slovenian Armed Forces are currently in the process of reorganization, and the military reserve system is one of the key areas for creating a new development concept. However, this area has not been the subject of a large number of research papers so far. Therefore, this paper is a modest contribution to the military organization of the Republic of Slovenia during the process of preparing a new conceptual template for the development of the military reserve. The paper focuses on the analysis of the current model and the proposal for the future formation of the military reserve in the Republic of Slovenia.
Keywords
transition, transformation; compulsory military service; reserve, military strategic reserve; manning
Hrčak ID:
284642
URI
Publication date:
21.10.2022.
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