PROTECTION THROUGH FORTIFICATION WORKS IN JOINT OPERATIONS – CERTAINTY OR UTOPIA – ?
PROTECTION THROUGH FORTIFICATION WORKS IN JOINT OPERATIONS – CERTAINTY OR UTOPIA – ?

Summary/Abstract: The reality of the integrated, expanded and fluid battlefield highlighted the fact that an armed conflict or a war in which belligerents largely use mostly land forces cannot be successfully waged unless increased attention is paid to fortification works, whose role is to ensure the protection of the fighters, optimal conditions for their proper and efficient use of the equipment and the fighting technique, as well as for bringing the body back to normal after prolonged physical and psychological efforts. However, some military theorists in modern NATO integrated or non-integrated armed forces have developed theories launching real myths about the new types of powerful means and systems of combat with which own forces have been equipped in order to discourage potential opponents and determine them to stop focusing on the fortification works within the general protection system. From this perspective, I believe the way these military theorists think is unrealistic. This article includes several arguments in support of this assertion.

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