Editorial: Contemporary Military Challenges – Second Quarter

Sodobni Vojaški Izzivi – Druga Četrtina

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Fair burden-sharing within the Alliance has always been a divisive issue and disagreements between the allies over this problem have been regular occurrences. The paper presents various ways in which the allies approach burden-sharing in NATO, stressing the differences between »input« and »output« measures, and the fact that it is very difficult to establish an appropriate formula and method for fair burden-sharing between the states. Too much emphasis is still being placed on »investment parameters« or input measures, while other forms of contributions by allies are not given enough weight. The paper focuses on the presentation of national military contributions as output.
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Military Burden-Sharing Within the Alliance

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Threats to national security are becoming more and more diverse, and factors are emerging which we did not expect. In recent decades, we have increasingly perceived extreme environmental events resulting from climate change as threats. This includes natural disasters related to weather, climate and/or water (windstorms, extreme precipitation, heat waves and extreme cold, wildfires, droughts,.). Military forces are carrying out their operations while being more and more affected by difficult environmental circumstances, and in addition their use in disaster management has become indispensable in our times. In this paper, the authors examine climate-related disasters’ impact on national security and on the use of military forces.
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Climate Change as a Challenge to the Armed Forces

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Several terrorist attacks have occurred in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 21st century, and all the security agencies in the country are dealing with the prevention and counteraction of terrorism. Training of police officers is conducted in three different training centres, and law enforcement officers have an average of 25 working weeks of basic police training. The main goal of this paper is to examine the representation of the topics of prevention and counterterrorism in the curricula of basic/entry police training conducted in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH). The results obtained revealed that it is possible for a police officer (policeman) or criminal inspector to not have had a single lesson on the topic of terrorism during their training.
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Rethinking the Basic Police Training Policy in Bosnia and Herzegovina

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This paper presents the process of establishing a terminology management infrastructure in the Slovenian Armed Forces (SAF) and the Ministry of Defence with the aim of ensuring standardized defence and military terminology. The process, which began in 2018, leaned on the best practices of the NATO Standardization Office and Canada’s Ministry of Defence, both of which have well-established military terminology management and standardization systems in place. As the process was established by language professionals, the paper attempts to identify the overall opinion with regard to terminology at the Ministry and in the SAF by means of a survey.
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Establishing Terminology Management Infrastructure – A Case Study of Slovenian Defence and Military Terminology

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The influence of the Roman Empire on Great Britain was deep, and Latin was the commonly used lingua franca at that time. The terms used for some ranks, weapons, cities, and others in many cases have their etymological origin in Latin or old English, or their derivatives in Romance languages. In the military realm, the hierarchical chain of command is defined by ranks such as the word ‘officer.’ In the case of cities, it is possible to know the influence of Roman locations in Great Britain from their names, as in the example of ‘Chesterfield’. Some words come from acronyms of specifically English etymology, as in ‘radar’, while others represent the full meaning of an organization, hierarchy, and so on, such as the word ‘army’.
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PhD, works at the Language Department of the Academia General Militar in Zaragoza

PhD, is the Coordinator of the Foreign Language Area at the Defence University Centre in Zaragoza

The Origin of Some Military Terms

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The European Union, as an intergovernmental union, has been trying to create the European security identity as a reflection of the European security perception among all the Member States for more than two decades. In the implementation of this theoretical determinant in the pragmatic security policy, the question of identity at the national level and the understanding of the preservation of national security in the interstate conflicts of the European Security Area has emerged. One of the key segments of the security and identity issue is integrated in the basic interests of national security, and that is the preservation of the biological substrate for nation’s survival. The Republic of North Macedonia is facing this issue which will be discussed in paper through both the theoretical and practical aspects.
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University of Tourism and Management in Skopje

European Security Through the Prism of Identity and International Conflicts (The Case of the Republic of North Macedonia)

Recenzija: Ekološki Sistem Vojaške Družine in Specifični Dejavniki Tveganja, Ki Vplivajo Na Njeno Blagostanje in Zdravje

Review: Ecosystem of a Military Family and the Specific Risk Factors Affecting its Health and Well-Being

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Volume 25 (2023): Issue 3-4 (December 2023)

Volume 25 (2023): Issue 2 (June 2023)

Volume 25 (2023): Issue 1 (May 2023)

Volume 24 (2022): Issue 4 (October 2022)

Volume 24 (2022): Issue 3 (September 2022)

Volume 24 (2022): Issue 2 (June 2022)

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