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Wartime memories - Boczki, January 1945
Wojenne wspomnienie – Boczki, styczeń 1945
Keywords: Boczki
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More...Keywords: PESA; ESDP; military and civilian effects; the European Defense Agency; peacekeeping; stabilization; conflict zones; NATO;
The article wishes to present the evolutions registered through the Lisbon Treaty in the ESDP field and the constraints that involved in creating an European Union’s army. The first part of the article is about the development of the comunitarization of ESDP through the stipulations of the Lisbon Treaty and about what this policy exactly implies (organization, implication, missions) in comparison with NATO. In the second part of the article the reasons why an European Union’s army can not be created are identified. The reasons are external, internal, concerning the member states and the nature of the European Union as an international organization, and, also, there are historical reasons.
More...Keywords: First Word War; Romania; Battlefront
This is a review at the volume:Glenn E. Torrey, The Romanian Battlefront in World War I , University Press of Kansas, Lawrence, 2011, 422p., realised by Lucian Turcu, Phd in history, from ,,Babes-Bolyai" University, Cluj-Napoca.
More...Keywords: military history; military science; methods; sources; necessity
Military history is a border science that examines the phenomena military along their evolution, taking into account the requirements, rules and methods of study of the history and the principles, rules and laws of armed struggle that are studied by the military science. The contribution which military history brings to deepening the norms, rules, duction principles of military action is very important. Based on past experience we can avoid many mistakes, current activities can be conduct and future activities can be designed.
More...Keywords: Peter I; Reform; Early Modern History; Patriarchal society
For over 300 years, both the eminent activity of Czar Peter I but also his personality have lead to a series of question which then historians, politicians and scholars have not yet found answers to. The Czar's personality is literally and symbolically overwhelming (having a height of 2,04 m and wearing only specially ordered clothes). In the same time, the transition of patriarchal Russia on the way of capitalist development has been indeed prepared by Peter I's planned actions, which had a very profound impact in all the sectors of the society.
More...Keywords: Recenzie
Recenzie
More...Keywords: professional soldiers; conscripts; recruiting; volunteers; incentives.
After switching to an all-volunteer force there were significant problems in recruiting enough and capable personnel for the military in the U.S. With an enormous effort these problems have been solved for a while in the States. But in the last years – with the commitments in different operations abroad and the changing values in civil society – the recruitment is less successful and it is more and more difficult filling all positions. The problem of recruiting people of the right quality seems to be more or less universal and is not just a problem in the U.S. In Europe the militaries face difficulties in the recruitment and retention of military personnel too.The reasons are multifaceted: The new pressure seems to be generated from changed values in civil society. Interest and motivation to join the military is declining, especially among young people. The competition between the private market and the military is increasing because of higher educational level of the young generation and a low unemployment rate. Against this background, this paper discusses the success and challenges in the recruitment of professional military personnel in Europe. The main question of this paper is how the military can recruit personnel in sufficient numbers and of sufficient quality. The data is based on expert questionnaires, which were sent to scientists and military personal all over Europe. Additionally, expert interviews have been conducted in Belgium, Slovenia, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.
More...Keywords: Interwar Romania;Navy;Vasile Scodrea;Naval training
Starting with the end of World War I, the Romanian Navy found itself in a period of great transformation. Gone was the structure that proved to be unsuited for offensive and defensive operations on the Danube and now the emphasis was on a more elastic organisation. A great contribution was offered by Vice Admiral Vasile Scodrea, Chief of the Naval Inspectorate for eight years. During his tenure, the command structure evolved and became more like its Western counterparts.
More...Keywords: weapons; firearms; ammunition; arms plant;
The article is the result of the initial stage of studying the NMHM collection of firearms, which includes more than four hundred items received by the museum as a result of gifts, transfers, purchases and archaeological finds. From a typological point of view, these weapons are Western, Eastern, mainly Russian, chronological frames of the collection: from the 15th century, the Middle Ages, to the 20th century. A wide variety of exhibits made it necessary to categorize them. Based on the chronological criterion, the most interesting and valuable samples of firearms from the museum collection are identified. The article supplements the information on firearms from the permanent exhibition, highlighting the most significant centers for the production of firearms. The author pays tribute to the arms designers, as well as lecturers and weapons experts from various universities and military academies of the world, who published articles on military subjects in specialized literature. The history of construction and a description of the components, as well as some technical and tactical characteristics of each type of weapon are presented. The role of museographers and scientific researchers in providing visitors, readers, and all weapon lovers with information on the topic by compiling explanatory texts, publishing catalogs and articles in scientific journals at home and abroad is emphasized.
More...Keywords: Romania;monastery;Dintr-un Lemn;Valentin Ciorbea;
Dintr-un Lemn Monastery is a unique place in Romania, a place of mistery and faith, rich in history.
More...Keywords: Russian troops; Republic of Moldova; Transnistria;
MIHAI GRIBINCEA, Trupele ruse de ocupație în Republica Moldova (culegere de documente și materiale), volumul I, Chișinău, Editura Cartier, 2020
More...Keywords: Destruction of the communication and transport roads; Bacău County; the years 1916-1918;
Cet article content quelques dates d'archive relatif au prejucices suportée de la regione Bacău par Ies destructlones de ses routes de transports et de comunications, determinée par des lourdes luttes de liberation, déroulees sur son teritoire dans les années de la première guere mondiale 1916—1918.
More...Keywords: crisis; bolshevik; Hungarian Republic of Councils; Béla Kun; Romanian Army;
After the First World War, Hungary went through a deep political, economic and social crisis that endangered the very existence of this nation as a state. At the end of 1918, after the failed attempt to federalize the Austro-Hungarian Empire in Budapest, Prime Minister M. Károlyi proclaimed the republic. Unfortunately, the new government could not stop the crisis in which Hungary had entered, obviously foreshadowing the disintegration of Greater Hungary. In desperation, the Hungarians also experienced communism. So, in March 1919, Béla Kun and the Hungarian Bolsheviks established the second communist regime in the world: the Hungarian Republic of Councils. In order to attract as many people as possible, the Hungarian Red Army attacked Slovak and Romanian territory (Transylvania). The communist experiment ended with the intervention of the Romanian Army, which resulted in the occupation of Budapest on August 4, 1919.
More...Keywords: Romania; military history; Romanian fleet; tragedy; 40s;
The Romanian Navy was treated, after the act of August 23, 1944, as an enemy by the Soviet troops and fleet that penetrated the Romanian zone of the Danube and the Black Sea, so the Soviets sank some of the ships and took others as a war prize. The surprise attack against the Romanian navy led to tragic situations and it was only the intervention of Rear-Admiral Horia Macellariu, the commander of the Sea Naval Forces, that saved part of the fleet. The Romanian navy was saved owing to an initiative to put it under the Soviet navy command. Until the armistice was signed, a large portion of the Romanian fleet was captured by the Soviets, not only military ships, but also the Romanian commercial fleet; that loss affected the Romanian state for many years.
More...Keywords: National Institute for the Study of Totalitarianism; Conference; scientific life; 1997;
The N.I.S.T. agenda describes the activity of the institute’s researchers during the first half of this year. This is a short review of participation in symposiums, round tables, book releases, openings of document exhibitions, where the participants discussed issues related to the access to documents from the communist period and the debunking of certain huge historical mystifications. The exchange of ideas was the great advantage of these encounters and the published works show the true value both of the organizational effort and of this serious scientific approach.
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