Defence and strategy

Bohuslav PERNICA

This paper responds to the discussion over defense planning in the Czech Republic, which arose after the presentation of the initial paper at the Seminar on Defense Planning held by the Strategic Studies Institute, University of Defense in Brno on the 18th October 2004. The author of this text briefly outlines the issue of “eluctance”of some NATO nations to conform with the DCI, the issue of usage of statistic information in the Czech Republic defense planning and the problem of the position of statistics in financial planning.