EUROPEAN NATIONS’ NAVIES FACING THE CHALLENGES OF THE 21ST CENTURY
EUROPEAN NATIONS’ NAVIES FACING THE CHALLENGES OF THE 21ST CENTURY

Summary/Abstract: The author presents the changes of the main tasks of the European navies after the end of the Cold War. He asserts the contemporary fleets are similar to the Victorians ones and they accomplish mainly expeditionary tasks. The most important factors which determined future naval environment are: significant dynamism of situation changes and wide scope of challenges requiring flexibility of forces, littorality – focus on coastal (littoral) waters, expeditionary capability, asymmetricity, jointness, network centricity. The author states that fleets are the very effective tools of international policy, but they lost their ability to single-handed operations. The fleets have become the part of great joint, combine system which is able to utilize the synergy effect.

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