WHY STRATEGY HAS BEEN COMING OUT FROM SECURITY AND DEFENCE AREA?

Scientific paper - Other

• Author: Stjepan Domjančić
• Author's institution: University of Zagreb; (Croatian Defence Academy "Dr. Franjo Tuđman")
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: SOCIAL SCIENCES; Political Science
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sociology
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: SOCIAL SCIENCES; Security and Defense Science

Abstract (english)

Contrary to the impression that the interest in strategic defence and security issues has increased ; state institutions, armed forces, international organizations and similar entities are increasingly involved in conceptualizing security and defence strategy, this paper shows that the essence is actually the opposite The process of fleeing from the strategic level of consideration of the problem. This tendency is well recognized by analyzing concepts related to security and defence strategy. The notion of asymmetric warfare is so ambivalent that it has become unusable, and the situation is even more absurd with the concept of hybrid warfare. The terms have become a means of legitimating, political classification and not analytical tools. Different terms are not to distinguish between different phenomena, to describe them more accurately and to explain them, but to make a certain appearance politically marked and thus determine how we ought to be treated as a state and society. As defence and security issues begin to dominate in public and political discourse, so scientific, expert, critical approach to these topics is reduced. Defence and security have definitely become daily political issues and have become problematic for military professionals. Strategic thinking in the area of security and defence is equally endangered and suppressed on the one hand by political voluntarism, irrelevant and arbitrary daily political influence, and, on the other hand, of the strategic surrogate offered in the form of simplicity, linearity, symmetry and mathematical accuracy.

Abstract (serbian)

Suprotno utisku da je interesovanje za strateška pitanja
odbrane i bezbednosti povećano; da su državne institucije, oružane snage,
međunarodne organizacije i slični entiteti sve više uključeni u
konceptualizaciju strategije bezbednosti i odbrane, ovaj rad pokazuje da je
suština zapravo suprotna. U toku je bekstvo od strateškog nivoa razmatranja
problema. Ova tendencija je dobro prepoznata analizom koncepata vezanih za
strategiju bezbednosti i odbrane. Pojam asimetričnog rata je toliko
ambivalentan da postaje neupotrebljiv, a situacija je još apsurdnija u konceptu
hibridnog rata. Pojmovi su postali sredstvo legitimizacije, političke
klasifikacije, a ne analitičkih alata. Različiti izrazi se ne koriste za razlikovanje
između različitih fenomena, da ih preciznije opisuju i objašnjavaju, već da
naprave određenu politički obeleženu pojavu koju treba da tretiramo sa
stanovišta države i društva.
Pošto pitanja odbrane i bezbednosti počinju dominirati u javnom i
političkom diskursu, naučni, stručni i kritički pristup ovim temama se
smanjuje. Odbrana i bezbednost definitivno postaju svakodnevna politička
pitanja i time postaju problematična za vojne profesionalce. Strateško
razmišljanje u oblasti bezbednosti i odbrane jednako je ugroženo i potisnuto s
jedne strane političkim volonterizmom, nebitnim i proizvoljnim dnevnim
političkim uticajem, a sa druge strane, strateškim surogatom ponuđenog u vidu
jednostavnosti, linearnosti, simetrije i matematičke tačnosti.

• Keywords (english): strategy, security, defence, symmetric warfare, hybrid warfare
• Keywords (croatian): strategija; sigurnost; obrana; simetrična borba; hibridni rat
• Language: english
• Publication type: Scientific paper - Other
• Publication status: Published
• Peer review: Peer review - international
• Publication version: Published version
• Publication title: ASYMMETRY AND STRATEGY ~ THEMATIC COLLECTION OF ARTICLES
• Numbering: pp. 531-546
• ISBN: 978-86-81121-17-7
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:249:114266
• Publication: 2018
• Conference: Title: Asimmetry and Strategy; Location: Beograd, Serbia; Start date: 2017-10-18; End date: 2017-10-18; Assembly type: Lecture
• Type of resource: Text
• Publisher: Strategic Research Institute ; National Defence School
• Publishing place: Beograd
• Access conditions: Open access
• Created on: 2020-08-17 12:02:58