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<p>Smart states, through alliances, synergistically enhance the capacity, readiness, responsiveness, resilience, sustainability and interoperability of their instruments of national power. NATO is constantly continually responding in a multidimensional way to changing security threats and operational circumstances, including by updating and upgrading concepts, plans and measures. The Alliance is also an opportunity for self-reflection; not to judge in retrospect, but to prevent mistakes in the future. We need to discuss honestly why we might be elsewhere, as had been desired and planned, but at the same time, despite our small size, we could be more courageous in pursuing different and original solutions.</p>
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Smart states, through alliances, synergistically enhance the capacity, readiness, responsiveness, resilience, sustainability and interoperability of their instruments of national power. NATO is constantly continually responding in a multidimensional way to changing security threats and operational circumstances, including by updating and upgrading concepts, plans and measures. The Alliance is also an opportunity for self-reflection; not to judge in retrospect, but to prevent mistakes in the future. We need to discuss honestly why we might be elsewhere, as had been desired and planned, but at the same time, despite our small size, we could be more courageous in pursuing different and original solutions.

20 Years of the Republic of Slovenia in NATO: Some Impressions about a Tiny Part and the Whole

CONTEMPORARY MILITARY CHALLENGES

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Smart states, through alliances, synergistically enhance the capacity, readiness, responsiveness, resilience, sustainability and interoperability of their...

20 Years of the Republic of Slovenia in NATO: Some Impressions about a Tiny Part and the Whole

Published Online: Apr 02, 2024

Page range: 53 - 79

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cmc-2024-0005

Keywords
Instruments of national power, small states, defence capabilities, military build-up, Slovenian Armed Forces

© 2024 Igor Kotnik, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

20 Years of the Republic of Slovenia in NATO: Some Impressions about a Tiny Part and the Whole

Published Online: Apr 02, 2024

Page range: 53 - 79

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cmc-2024-0005

KeywordsInstruments of national power, small states, defence capabilities, military build-up, Slovenian Armed Forces

© 2024 Igor Kotnik, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Instruments of national power, small states, defence capabilities, military build-up, Slovenian Armed Forces