INTERNATIONAL SECURITY COMMUNITY AT THE CROSSROADS
Journal: CONTEMPORARY MILITARY CHALLENGES
Year: 2016

For some time already, the international security community has been at a crossroads and looking for new right directions. The established operational guidelines have changed, and in some areas, it seems that they simply no longer exist. There are many factors which have had an effect on the relatively high level of security we have witnessed in the last few years. The financial crisis, which started to show its teeth in 2008 and 2009, has seriously changed the European armed forces, their struc