Programme Decisions of Serbian Ruling Political Parties (1878 - 1903) with Respect to Military Organization Cover Image

Програмска опредељења српских владајућих политичких странака (1881-1903) о уређењу војске
Programme Decisions of Serbian Ruling Political Parties (1878 - 1903) with Respect to Military Organization

Author(s): Zoran Todorović
Subject(s): Governance, Military history, Political history, International relations/trade, Military policy, Between Berlin Congress and WW I
Published by: Institut za strategijska istraživanja
Keywords: Military history; military organisation; armed forces; politics; government; military policy; political parties; Serbia;

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, programme decisions with respect to military organization of Serbian armed forces of the three most significant political parties, which were on power at the end of the XIX and the beginning of the XX century: National Liberal Party, Serbian Progressive Party and National Radical Party are presented. Each of these three political parties, either while they were on power or when they were the opposition, stated their political programmes in which they wrote, apart from internal and external policy issues, independence, organization of the state and education, also about the organization of Serbian armed forces which represent an important factor in the defence of independence and achievement of broader national aims presented in the political programmes. Through the attitudes of the political parties towards the organization and the role of Serbian armed forces in internal and external policy, basic political principles were projected and their ideological and political nature depicted.

  • Issue Year: 2008
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 9-24
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Serbian