1. FUTURE OF CROATIAN MILITARY EDUCATION To DEVERSIFY or to SPECIALIZE?

2. Planning considerations  Membership in Alliances  Leveraging coalition capabilities  National foreign and security policies  Modern threats  Needs vs. Capabilities

3. 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

4. National foreign and security policies  What threatens us at home?  What threatens us abroad?  What threatens our allies?  What do we do about it?

5. 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?

6. "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

7. 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

8. Conclusion  ….