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Challenges of Democracy and Asymmetrical Threats- Military Organizations by Means of Learning and Adaptation Toward the New Capabilities and Knowledge

Contemporary civil-military relations are marked by new social phenomena, by democratic evolution as well as by new emerging forms of threats and aggression. Traditional vision and mission of armed forces should be changed, and transformation requires a complex process of organizational learning and changing, by which new capabilities and competencies should be created. Army should develop its capabilities within new core areas such as: Crisis Management, Law Enforcement, Detection and Response. The role and the function of the army in a society nowadays incline toward the role of protection. Beside that, military activities must be transparent and determined by issued strategic documents on the national and higher levels. High military technology proliferation, networking, strong growth of using information and communication technologies, supported by traditional human ambitions in conquering power and resources, result nowadays with emerging of new, asymmetrical threats. One of such threats is terrorism. While in the past, informal groups without control of authority, were less dangerous because of low level of damages of their threat assets, today the situation is changed. New asymmetrical threats are potentially globally dangerous and they set up very new challenges in front of the regular military forces, which should prepare themselves in a new way, and should learn new organizational responses. One kind of an effective military reaction is by forming alliances, namely by making better connections and networking between national military forces. Democratic and civil society applications, as well as new threats, make the mission of a modern army more complex. Capabilities and competency of nonintrusive behavior are required, commitment toward non-invasive methods is desirable as well as preservation of normal functioning of civil organizations and the lives of individuals. Paradigms of military nonintrusive and indirect behavior likewise create imperative of adaptation for military organization that must improve itself, by the activities of internal tasks owners as well as the factors from the external, civil environment.

reliability; adaptation; asymmetrical threats; democracy; learning; military; public security

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