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"Book review". European army: between goal and chimera
Review of the book: Bartels, Hans-Peter; Kellner, Anna Maria y Optenhögel, Uwe (eds.). Strategic Autonomy and European Defense. On the way to a European army? Dietz, 2017, 442 págs.
Alfonso González Bondia
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The article examines such a little-known phenomenon of national history as foreign military mercenaries, who helped Ukrainians defend their country’s independence.
Oleh Stetsyshyn
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«Invasion Set of Languages»: War of 1812 by Eyes of Soldier’s Foreigners of Great Army
Article opens features of participation in war of 1812 European soldiers which were a part of army of emperor Napoleon. On the basis of documents of a personal origin the perception of events of campaign of 1812 officers and the soldiers of a foreign ...
N. A. Kopylov
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In the late XIX c., when most Western European armies in the discussion about cut and thrust strikes finally gave priority to a thrust, Russian Imperial Army adopted Eastern weapon – shashka, with Caucasian and Asian origins.
Ruslan Urazbakhtin
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The Spanish Army in Security Force Assistance
This article analyses the lessons learned by the Spanish Army in the Security Force Assistance (SFA) Operation in Iraq between 2015 and 2020. The research uses primary data from 22 personal interviews conducted with Spanish officers and NCOs, as well as
Guillermo López-Rodríguez
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Several years after the end of the Second World War an agreement was made for regulating all details of the future European army. The plan was formatting European army with soldiers from France, Germany, Italy and the Benelux countries, having unique
Vasko Naumovski +2 more
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STRATEGIC SECURITY ENVIRONMENT AND THE ROLE OF MILITARY ENGINEERING SUPPORT IN OPERATIONS
The inclusion of Bulgarian Army in operations and missions led by NATO and the European Union requires a new approach by Bulgarian Armed Forces. The development of national adaptive capabilities of engineer units will contribute to the strengthening of ...
Svetlin Pehlivanov
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Central & Eastern Europe in the Strategic Plans of the Soviets (1922–1947). A Historical Essay
This essay presents the political situation in Central & Eastern Europe prior to and during World War II from the point of view of Soviet foreign policy and war plans.
Marek Kornat
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The Legal Foundations of a European Army [PDF]
A European Army featured at the very beginning of the European integration process. In the early 1950s the ‘Plan Pleven’ proposed to establish a European Defence Community comprising inter alia of an integrated European Defence Force. However, the plan failed and the notion of a European army disappeared from the European agenda for a long time.
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Suicide in Switzerland: why gun ownership can be deadly
There is a great deal of empirical evidence that owning a firearm increases the risk of dying from suicide. Most suicides are impulsive. Nearly 50% of survivors of suicide attempts report that they took less than 10 minutes between the decision to die ...
Wolfgang Stroebe
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