"The Slovak Armed Forces' primary responsibilities are the Defense of the country against all military threats, to potentially contributing to the full range of alliance missions, and for providing support to other national agencies against all...
To become Noncommissioned Officer (NCO) in Slovak armed forces before 2000 was a privilege for young boys with high moral character, superior knowledge and result from the elementary school, well physical ability and especially with the strong will...
While it might currently be challenging to imagine Russia as a NATO member, a change to the future strategic context could make it equally difficult to imagine Russia outside of NATO. The historical analysis of NATO enlargement during the past...
The following special bulletins contained in this document include: the German campaign in Poland; Soviet-Finnish (operations from November 30, 1939 to January 7, 1940); the German campaign in Poland, September 1 – October 5, 1939; Royal Air...
11 September 2002, this is the date when the Czech Air Force plane took off from the Czech town of Pardubice and headed to the capitol city in Kosovo province, Pristine. I didn’t feel very well, not only because of the sad anniversary of the...
Who was Reinhard Heydrich? He was probably the ablest Nazi ofthem all-a SS-General, a Police General, a Luftwaffe pilot, a linguist, a musician and a superb bureaucrat (Cowdery, Ray and Peter Vodenka. Reinhard Heydrich: Assassination!). Few know...
In the spring of 1849, the rebel Hungarians defeated the Austrian army and liberated their country. The leaders of this struggle were Louis Kossuth, one of Hungary's most brilliant statesmen and Arthur Gorgey, one of Hungary's most talented...
This handbook covers a variety of topics regarding the military government in Germany. The administration of military government, civil government in the protectorate, basic law (the protectorate decree), German admin in the protectorate, the legal...
Since the first people brought a legal tender with some kind of value, society has had problems with corruption and bribes. In this paper I will describe corruption, which is in my opinion a very big ethical problem everywhere. The law of the...
This report consists of material from training lectures received on descriptions of operations, methods and theories of current Allied propaganda and techniques in the field of psychological warfare.
The Slovak Army has recently become a professional Army. We have started recruiting our professional Soldiers. In this paper I tried to describe Slovakian recruiting policy, which for me seems to be an ethical problem. Even though we have a...
This monograph examines the United States’ position regarding further expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NAT0) to include additional countries that were part of the former Warsaw Pact during the Cold War. This process has been...
While the primary focus of American foreign policy is clearly outside the European continent, NATO’s ongoing enlargement and successful integration of new members remains in the vital interests of the United States. Alliance members, both old and...
This journal comprises seven volumes covering the dates 14 August 1939 to 24 September 1942, the date of Halder's dismissal by Hitler. Kept by Halder personally in shorthand it contains notes on conferences, memoranda, staff talks, lectures,...
On 27th May 1942 two Czech Noncommissioned Officers (NCOs) displayed extraordinary courage when they assassinated Reinhardt Hedrick of the German Army. Hedrick was appointed as Administrator/Protector of Bohemia and Moravia by the German Government...
Slovak MAJ Alexander Schober served as a fuel officer with the Central South Polish Command in Multinational Division - Central South (MND-Central South) during 2003 and 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and as contingent commander...
Interoperability is the ability of services and allies to commingle systems, units, or forces which will enable them to operate effectively together. Interoperability should provide NATO commanders the necessary flexibility to concentrate...
What started in 1995 as a one year commitment of NATO troops to implement the Dayton peace accord in Bosnia and Herzegovina has developed into a still ongoing mission there since 1996, an additional mission in Kosovo since 1999 and several minor...