ROMANIA’S MILITARY NECESSARY CHANGES THROUGH THE PRISM OF THE UKRAINIAN AFFAIR
ROMANIA’S MILITARY NECESSARY CHANGES THROUGH THE PRISM OF THE UKRAINIAN AFFAIR

Summary/Abstract: The latest security trends assumed that conventional warfare between nation-states has been abolished and that the military roles have changed. Consequently the strategic planners somehow disregarded the importance of national defense heavily relying on NATO support as collective defense. But the events unfold in Ukraine point to some realities namely: the power of countries shifts; the status quo is unstable, and that Russia has hegemonic ambitions. Having admitted that Romania faces military vulnerabilities there are a series of necessary changes and the options identified are: evaluation of the current defense strategy, revisit forces’ structure, military technology and forces training improvement. News is that there is a unanimous political engagement to increase the defense budget during the following years. With lessons learned from years with short funding on defense this money should be spent wisely after a thorough capability assessment.

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