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AGENDA NATO
Alături de aceste aspecte, se poate vorbi şi de modificări
conceptuale la nivelul luptei antiteroriste şi contrateroriste
pe plan local şi regional, despre credinţa privind o conjugare
tot mai accentuată între terorism şi criminalitatea
organizată, despre modificări conceptuale şi practice ale
relaţiilor civil-militare, despre accentul tot mai insistent
pus pe combaterea corupţiei, ca şi despre reducerea personalului
din forţele armate ale ţărilor invitate la aderare,
prin profesionalizarea armatei.
NOTE
1
Gl. Bg. Dr. Ing. Sergiu Medar, Ameninţările asimetrice şi securitatea globală, în Revista de ştiinţe militare, anul II, 2002, nr. 1 (2),
Bucureşti, p. 27.
2
George Robertson, Discurs la Conferinţa pe probleme de Politici de Securitate, München, 08.02.2003
3
v. cotidianul Adevărul, 08.10.2001.
4
Gl. Bg. Dr. Ing. Sergiu Medar, op. cit., p. 27.
5
Janowitz, Morris, Organizarea militară în societăţile industriale, în Armata şi societatea, Editura INFO-TEAM, Bucureşti 1998, p. 71.
6
http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?Did=000000135393051&Fmt=4&Deli=1&Mtd=2&Idx=9 (15.10.2002)
7
http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?Did=000000159473131&Fmt=3&Deli=1&Mtd=2&Idx=2 (15.10.2002)
8
v. cotidianul Curierul Naţional din 05.10.2002.
The terrorist attacks on the eleventh of September 2001 have determined NATO to redefine its priorities. These changes in strategy
rely on deeper changes in the Organization‘s conceptual core. Among these changes we can mention giving up the concepts of “zeroown-casualties”,
“collateral casualties” or “peaceful conflict prevention and/or management”.
Moreover, concepts like “constabulary forces” or “security through cooperation with external partners” (see the cooperation between
NATO and The Russian Federation within the recently created “NATO-Russia Council”) tend to replace older concepts which represent
an inheritance of the Cold War era. Also, the concept of “preventive war” represents a new way of dealing with the new asymmetric
threats.
Another conceptual change, which tends to become a very important change in NATO‘s “strategic behavior”, is the assumption
that each participating country in the Alliance‘s missions should participate with specialized forces (different specialization for each of
the NATO members). And, given the fact that in war-related missions the United States are used to be the leaders and initiate NATO
peace-making missions, through war-related means, we may assume that the new Alliance‘s members will be assigned especially
constabulary missions.
Amongst the practical consequences of these conceptual changes we may also mention the increasing role of Intelligence cooperation,
special forces, informational war and internal security forces, as well as the increasing attention paid and the increasing efforts to
fight against international and national organized crime, considered nowadays as a phenomenon stronger and stronger connected to
terrorism.
Of a tantamount importance are, of course, the conceptual changes in anti-terrorist and counter-terrorist strategies and tactics, the
increasing cooperation between terrorist organizations and organized crime networks, the re-evaluation of civil-military relations, the
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