FUTURE OF CROATIAN MILITARY EDUCATION

To DEVERSIFY or to SPECIALIZE?

Planning considerations

Membership in Alliances Leveraging coalition capabilities National foreign and security policies

Modern threats Needs vs. Capabilities

Membership in Alliances - principles

Personnel consideration• Training• Trust• Interpersonal skill sets• Negotiations• Consensus building• Pride• TTPs

Interoperability considerations• Equipment• SOPs• Language• Culture• Doctrine• Intelligence• Organizational framework• Communication systems

National foreign and security policies

What threatens us at home?

What threatens us abroad?

What threatens our allies?

What do we do about it?

Modern Threats

Ethnic conflict Regional instability Organized crime Rogue/Failed states Proliferation of WMD Resource conflict Terrorism…

No use of main battle tanks,

howitzers, aircraft

carriers…

How to fight against them?

"Them" vs. "Us"

Borders are irrelevant Globally dispersed Uninterested in political

goals connected to nationhood

Rich Allow high degree of

initiative Dispersed / invisible

center of gravity No accountability

Nation states importance of sovereignty

Regionalized Structured / predictable Highly visible centers of

gravity and weak spots National and international

accountability

"THEM" "US"

MilitarIES and THEIR education SYSTEMS

haVE to respond

What type of forces to built?

Easily interchangable in different jobs

Eased mission command Higher self-initiative___________________ Lacking specialized

knowledges High reliance on

improvization Difficult to supervise More expensive

Highly focused Reliable and available Structured, easily controlled

and used ____________________ Lacking "wider view" Low initiative and capacity to

overcome unplanned difficulties

Difficulty in joint and integrated work

"Clan" mentality

Diversify Specialize

Conclusion

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