Author(s): Teodor FRUNZETI
Journal: Journal of Defense Resources Management
ISSN 2068-9403
Volume: 3;
Issue: 2;
Start page: 3;
Date: 2012;
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Keywords: Pooling and Sharing | Smart Defense | Security Challenges | Reductions in Military Budgets | NATO | EU | Prioritization | Cooperation | Specialization
ABSTRACT
The international security environment is currently undergoing a series of fundamental changes becoming increasingly complex. Consequently, international actors need to find innovative ways to manage security and defense. The global financial and economic crisis has had a strong impact on military budgets, making it necessary for states and regional and international organizations concerned with such issues to streamline their defense planning and the more so because, in addition to the already consecrated risks and security threats, there are also new challenges. The concepts of “pooling and sharing” and “smart defense” have become, in this context, increasingly popular generating new initiatives in defense planning. However, despite some successes in this regard and their presentation as ideal solutions for managing defense in the current context, these concepts involve a number of difficulties to overcome that sometimes may translate into strategic political military and even economic disadvantages.
Journal: Journal of Defense Resources Management
ISSN 2068-9403
Volume: 3;
Issue: 2;
Start page: 3;
Date: 2012;
VIEW PDF
DOWNLOAD PDF Original pageKeywords: Pooling and Sharing | Smart Defense | Security Challenges | Reductions in Military Budgets | NATO | EU | Prioritization | Cooperation | Specialization
ABSTRACT
The international security environment is currently undergoing a series of fundamental changes becoming increasingly complex. Consequently, international actors need to find innovative ways to manage security and defense. The global financial and economic crisis has had a strong impact on military budgets, making it necessary for states and regional and international organizations concerned with such issues to streamline their defense planning and the more so because, in addition to the already consecrated risks and security threats, there are also new challenges. The concepts of “pooling and sharing” and “smart defense” have become, in this context, increasingly popular generating new initiatives in defense planning. However, despite some successes in this regard and their presentation as ideal solutions for managing defense in the current context, these concepts involve a number of difficulties to overcome that sometimes may translate into strategic political military and even economic disadvantages.
