Smart power wobec asymetrii użycia siły wojskowej
Smart power versus asymmetry of using military force

Summary/Abstract: Recently, the ongoing dynamic transformation of the international order has activated significant changes in the roles, functions and tasks of the military. In the erst-while, Cold War order, the significance and utility of the armed forces were indisputable, obvious and intelligible. Jeopardies and their structures would be recognised at the time sufficient for undertaking any rational actions against them. The character of these jeopardies ranging from ideological to economic influencing vital state interests would cause few dilemmas as regards the exercise of the armed forces. The rationale behind the armed forces was therefore clear and workable. In the new international environment it is far more difficult to recognise which interests ought to be safeguarded by the state, and delineating state activity theatres borders on infeasibility. Another year of the so-called war on terrorism is coming to its close. An attempt both to provide an answer to the question of the effectiveness of the military's operational methods utilized during humanitarian missions and to demarcate the responsibilities of the contemporary warfare would be untimely.

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