HUNGARIAN EXPERIENCES IN PEACE SUPPORT ACTIVITIES
HUNGARIAN EXPERIENCES IN PEACE SUPPORT ACTIVITIES

Summary/Abstract: After the political changes at the beginning of the ’90 (changing the political system, eliminating the Warsaw pact, and withdrawal of the Soviet Red Army from Hungary), the role and position of the armed forces were also re-evaluated. This meant that some new challenges appeared, mostly related to Hungary’s integration strive. The most important ones were participation in crisis management operations and peace support operations as well as participation in the PfP programmes. In this article we try to give a short picture of the Hungarian Defence Forces (HDF), their participation in the different peace support missions and to present the tendencies which transformed the organisation, equipment and employment rules of the HDF troops participating in such Allied missions. The basis for this presentation is the “Hungarian Engineer Contingent” (an engineer battalion task force), which meant the Hungarian contribution to the IFOR and SFOR missions. The activities and experiences of this unit had the most important impacts on the transformation process of the HDF.

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