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1. Introductory classes. The subject and its essential contexts.
a) Basic notions - politics, strategy, doctrine. Strategy, operational level, tactics, art of war. Strategic aspects of international relations. Geopolitics, geostrategy, war geography.
b) Armed forces in a state. The definition. Armed forces in comparison to the other armed/uniformed formations. Armed forces as an instrument in politics, an element of a state structure. Roles, missions, tasks of armed forces. Armed forces as a particular social group, an interest group. Professional and conscripted army. Civilian control of the military. The unity of the military and government.
c) Basic information about the organization and structure of armed forces.
2. Armed forces in the contemporary world. The identification of the current status.
a) The directions of the global balance of power evolution.
b) The size of armed forces, military spending. Comparison of the 1985, 1995, 2005, 2015, 2020 indicators (and the latest accessible data).
c) Military bases. Armed forces deployed outside the home country.
- US Armed Forces in Poland - the scope and character of the presence.
3-5. Armed forces and security policy of selected states.
a) The factors determining the character of national armed forces.
- Armed forces and security policy of the United States,
- Armed forces and security policy of the Russian Federation,
- Armed forces and security policy of People’s Republic of China,
- Armed forces and security policy of...
- Armed forces and security policy of…
- Armed forces and security policy of...
- Armed forces and security policy of Poland.
6-8. Collective security at the transatlantic area.
a) The basic notions - alliance, collective security system, cooperative security.
b) NATO: genesis, participation, the specificity, the organizational structure of civil and military units, the multinational forces, the strategic concept, the operational activity, contemporary issues of the NATO functioning.
- Donald Trump vs. NATO
-The NATO’s reaction to the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine
c) CSDP: the development and current status. The operational activity (main categories, the development directions) and the efforts for the European integration in the domain of security and defence.
- The European army - is it possible and is it necessary?
d) OSCE: regional system of collective security. The scope of interests, activity and reasons of the current crisis.
9. Armed forces in crises, armed conflicts, wars.
a) Crisis, armed conflict, war - the basic notions and categories,
b) Major armed conflicts after the cold war (statistics),
c) Features of contemporary armed conflicts.
- The impact of the climate crisis on emergence and nature of armed conflicts (potential and actual).
d) Cases of selected ongoing armed conflicts:
- The war in Ukraine - means of the confrontation and political significance,
- The war in...
10. Missions, peace operations, "stability" operations.
a) Peace operations - the idea and classification. A quantitative review.
b) Exemplary categories: the UN peacekeeping missions, the NATO out of area missions, the U.S. expeditionary missions.
- Crisis management in practice on the example of a selected operation – specificity and assessment.
11. Arms control and disarmament. Arms trade.
a) Weapons of mass destruction. Nuclear weapon, the contemporary nuclear arsenals.
- Proliferation of nuclear weapons in the 21st century.
b) A review of the essential arms control and disarmament agreements: NPT (+ the nuclear-weapon-free zones), BWC, CWC, ENMOD, CCW, MBT, CCM, CFE, ATT.
c) Arms trade - the basic mechanisms and major entities (states and companies).
12-13. Contemporary issues and transformations in military affairs.
- The military use of UAV's (drones) issues,
- The military use of artificial intelligence (AI) - the essence, examples and main issues,
- Hybrid warfare - the concept, means and cases,
- Disinformation and propaganda as a tool of confrontation – concepts, means and cases,
- Cyberspace as an area of confrontation.
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