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Defense Capability and Armed Forces

Summary/Abstract: The article aims at highlighting the dangers of long underestimating the need to permanently improve the defence capabilities to deal with current and future security threats. Authors suggest propositions on where to direct the efforts to improve the competence of the Defence to meet the Act Of Defence Requirements. The first part of the article describes, after brief analysis, the options of collective defence and explains the need to solve demanding tasks on own territory under national responsibility in parallel. The second part of the article describes the main thoughts of the theory of “territorial defence”, which is missing in current Doctrine of the Armed Forces of the Czech Republic. Theory of territorial defence makes a foundation, upon which the preparedness of the Armed forces of the Czech Republic should be built. In the third part of the article, the authors discuss the alternative of implementing the collective defence principle by building multinational joint forces, independent of national armed forces, in transnational responsibility of the coalition of member states, dedicated to the territorial defence of member states and to crisis response expeditionary operations.

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