- ročník: 2023
- číslo: 2
- typ článku: Přehledový / Peer-reviewed
The article is about six French Special Military Operations (SMOs) that were conducted in Islamic countries in the MENA region between 2011 and 2022. It provides an explanation of their historical, geopolitical, and military contexts while also assessing their compliance with international law. The text introduces two innovative concepts, the Holland doctrine and the Macron doctrine, and analyses both their successes and failures. Ultimately, the article concludes by addressing the question of why these SMOs achieved military success but failed to meet political objectives, resulting in a significant disillusionment among French political and military elites, as well as the participating soldiers.
Read more: French military interventions in MENAP countries during the 2010s
- ročník: 2016
- číslo: Mimořádné číslo
- typ článku: Přehledový / Peer-reviewed
Despite the attempts of labeling hybrid warfare as a new form of warfare or even as a factor that is changing the nature of war, hybrid warfare is part of a war from the Antiquity to the present day. The essence of hybrid warfare is in parallel use of regular and irregular military forces
and different means of pressure by a power unwilling to openly attack a weaker opponent. Information dimension is analyzed in the cases of hybrid warfare against Croatia (1990-91) and Ukraine (2014). In both cases the key target of hybrid warfare was social cohesion of the attacked countries. In the Croatian case, despite a strong propaganda campaign followed by the direct and indirect use of military force, the attacking side was unable to break social cohesion of the majority of Croatia's population. In the Ukrainian case, the lack of social cohesion has prevented organization of the efficient response to hybrid warfare waged by the Russian Federation. Both cases also indicate the significance of national identity in preserving a society's social cohesion.
- ročník: 2016
- číslo: Mimořádné číslo
- typ článku: Přehledový / Peer-reviewed
- ročník: 2016
- číslo: Mimořádné číslo
- typ článku: Přehledový / Peer-reviewed
- ročník: 2016
- číslo: Mimořádné číslo
- typ článku: Ostatní / Other