Strategia Națională de Apărare a Țării – între optimism și pesimism
Romania’s National Defence Strategy – between Optimism and Pessimism

Summary/Abstract: The frailty of strategies was highlighted when the reality of our century overlapped the national patterns of security and defence planning. Constrained by the decrease of expenses and affected by the evolutions of the security in the last two years, states (especially NATO members) successively reconfigured the national approach related to security planning. The redistribution of resources in order to increase the security level gained more and more strict and justified importance (for example optimizing the use of capabilities in NATO). In this context, the article has aims to present the results of a SWOT analysis referring to Romania’s National Defence Strategy for 2015-2019. The analysis performed highlights some of the results which can improve the process of elaborating the strategy at the national level. In its quest between optimism and pessimism, the analysis sketches the national progress, as well as the problems which should draw the attention of the political leadership. Not last, in the conclusions of the article, I underlined the need of inserting some modern and sustainable approaches in the security planning process, such as evidence-based policies, benchmarking1and identification and capitalization of security opportunities.

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