The Role of the Armed Forces in Security Policy. Control over the Army

• Authors: Jarosław J. Piątek

Abstracts

EN

Civilian management and democratic control over the army do not only consist in establishing organs and mechanisms of control and optimising their activity. It is significant to determine and respect the role of the armed forces in the society, which would allow making the army a politically neutral instrument of legally functioning forces as well as appropriate organisational structures with strictly defined protection measures allocated to carry out the undertakings of the state and the nation. The position and function of the army in society should be based on the fact that it reflects the features of the society it comes from. In order to facilitate the effective progression of the process, the following aspects should be taken into account: in what manner the army reacts to the decisions and actions of civilian society; whether there are intermediary bodies between these spheres; to what extent the armed forces represent the interests of the society; and whether a soldier-citizen exists or if the two notions should be treated separately

Keywords

EN

Armed forces; security policy; state policy; military control

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Reality of Politics
• Year: 2016
• Issue: 7
• Pages: 109-122

Dates

published

2016

Contributors

author

Jarosław J. Piątek

• University of Szczecin

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/rop201608

Biblioteka Nauki

2031533