Nor are there are any strong historic or religious ties between the Czech lands and Serbia that might explain it, as, for example, in the case of Greece. Many Czechs fondly remember Yugoslavia as the place they went for their summer holidays under Socialism. As a catalogue of plane crashes and other embarrassing incidents have revealed, the Czech Republic's badly trained, poorly equipped armed forces are basically a threat to no one. They are hardly fit to participate in a NATO combat operation and are unlikely to be asked. And if the Czechs took Russian sensibilities seriously, they wouldn't have joined NATO in the first place.
Words are cheap.
The old vejk line Flummoxed, I asked my wife, who is Czech, if she could think of an explanation. A bit harsh, perhaps, but with an element of truth. The Czech Republic is not exactly a country steeped in martial traditions. The most warlike character in the Czech pantheon is 14th-century Hussite commander Jan izka, whose brand of muscular Christianity aimed quite literally to strike the fear of God into his enemies. Ha ek's fictional creation, the Good Solider Soldier vejk, an endearing model of cynicism and cowardice.