Strategic Approaches to the Armed Forces Armament
Josef PROCHÁZKA
In the end of 2000, the Czech Republic MoD National Armament Directorate charged the Institute of the Strategic Studies with a task to prepare a draft of the National Armament Strategy. From that time, the Institute personnel performed many analyzed of strategic policy and acquisition approaches of the mature NATO nations in securing their needs for the defense. The aim of this task was to recommend the most efficient implications applicable for strategic approach for the armament of the Armed Forces of the Czech Republic. The objective of this article is to point out certain common as well as different approaches of transformation of the acquisition systems in the last 5 years in order to secure the needs of the armed forces efficiently as much as possible and present the most important impacts on the National Armament Strategy development.