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 DiversifySpecialize

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