Defence and strategy

Miroslav HREBÍČEK*, Janusz MIKA**

The article provides a brief description of activities, organisation and purpose of military science and research institutes in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic focusing in particular on research of the problem of strategy at these institutes. It provides introduction to the research activities of these institutes in context of security science in the following periods: -1918-1939, 1946-present. The authors point out the necessity of hindsight and the importance of learning from history for the scientific and educational activities in the sphere of security science and security education.