Pages from the Romanian Military Thinking. The Political-Strategic Vision on (Northern) Dobrogea: 1878-1913
Pages from the Romanian Military Thinking. The Political-Strategic Vision on (Northern) Dobrogea: 1878-1913

Summary/Abstract: Starting from the complexity of the defence and national security field, this article, based on Romanian, Western, Bulgarian and Turkish historiographical contributions, supplemented with military documents from the archives, deals with the problem of defence of the right bank Danube territory obtained after the Berlin Congress (1878), until the incorporation of Southern Dobrogea (Quadrilateral) in 1913. This article briefly shows the initial Romanian views on the inclusion of Dobrogea, then the measures enforced by the authorities at two levels, namely the political-diplomatic and military one, and the ethnopolitical one respectively, including economic, social and cultural aspects. The conclusion is that the military measures taken led to limited achievements, mainly due to some objective reasons, but this situation was counterbalanced by suitable political-diplomatic combinations and options and especially by the remarkable result of the work aiming to enhance, modernise and colonise the territory.A decisive stage in this respect was that of 1890-1895.

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