MBA Professional Report / Approved for public release, distribution is unlimited / This project is planned to analyze the congruence between the theoretical aspect and legislative base of the Bulgarian Ministry of Defense procurement system and their implementation with the present practices. This will help the proper understanding of how the system works and if it could better serve the national security needs. The project analyzes existing acquisition practices and proposes recommendations for improving key acquisition processes and policies. In addition, the project presents analysis of the procurement system as organizational structure within the Bulgarian Ministry of Defense with its existing interconnections and activities. The recommendations for possible improvements consider the existing constraints and barriers that originate from acting legislation, organizational design, or applied practices. The project is intended to be prolonged and developed additionally by other Bulgarian students from the perspective of their respective organizations and experience. / Major, Bulgarian Air Force

The thesis "The army on the media battlefield" examines the extent to which the Ministry of Defence and the Army of the Czech Republic are media institutions. If they take media logic and if they subject to pressure of the journalists. All this in a theoretical frame of four phases of mediatisation that is defined by Jesper Strömbäck's work in 2008. The theoretical part defines terms such as mediatisation or media logic. The thesis also focuses on the explanation of corporate communication, which is related to the Ministry of Defence and the Czech Army. In the conclusion of the theoretical part both institutions are defined and the emphasis is on their communications department. The methodological part describes the research method of semi-structured interviews, which are used to collect relevant data. It also defines the research problem and research questions. The third part of the thesis is devoted to research where data collected from nine respondents from the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff of the Army are analyzed and categorized to relevant research questions. Respondents answered questions that addressed the communication objectives of the Army, formats and contents of the communication, new media and their work in relation to editorial routines. Respondents described what...

En 1996 le Président de la République Jacques Chirac, suspendait le service national. Supprimant ainsi un vivier non négligeable de ressources que possédaient les armées. Depuis lors le ministère de la Défense à du trouver des moyens pour palier à ce déficit de recrutement, d’image et de compétences. Les armées n’ont eu d’autres choix que celui de communiquer pour attirer et de donner envie à des dizaines de milliers de jeunes de rejoindre les rangs des forces armées. Si le surnom de la « Grande Muette » colle à la peau de l’armée française, cette dernière a entrepris depuis des années des réformes visant à améliorer sa communication publique. Dans cette société ou l’instantanéité est un principe élémentaire, où les outils numériques sont légion, la Défense n’a d’autre choix qu’apprendre à se servir de ces nouvelles passerelles numériques pour faire parler d’elle. Ainsi se servant des nouvelles tendances et ayant analysé le comportement de la classe d’âge concernée (18-30 ans), le ministère de la Défense tente désespérément d’investir les réseaux sociaux afin d’occuper le champ de bataille médiatique pour faire parler de lui et tenter de recruter. / In 1196, the President of the French republic, Jacques Chirac suspends the military service. This action has for consequences to cut definitely the link between French army and the youth. Ever since the French army search a way for recruit young people. The ministry of defense has a bad reputation and suffers of a stereotypical image. For sort out of this deficit of renown the French army decide to use the digital tools for speak at the youth. Nowadays the young people can live without smartphone, internet or Facebook. For that the French ministry of Defense tries to invade the mediatized battlefield.

Diploma thesis deals with analysis of income and expenditure aspect of state budget, deficit and public debt during 2008-2013 period, following Global financial and economic crisis and its induced governmental countermeasures. It then explains Goal oriented budgeting implementation process into Ministry of defense for the same period. The first chapter is dedicated to explaining theoretical background of budgeting process and enumeration of basic budgeting methods. The second part deals with state budget, concrete income and expense analysis including state deficit and public debt. The last chapter describes Goal oriented budgeting implementation process into Ministry of defense and evaluation of its basic problems. The conclusion of the thesis combines the acquired knowledge and sets conclusions and recommendations.

[pt] A presente tese é uma pesquisa sobre o Curso de Comando e Estado-Maior do Exército Brasileiro e tem como objetivo o estudo da formação dos oficiais de carreira bélica do Quadro de Estado-Maior da Ativa e os impactos das políticas de Defesa nos conteúdos e monografias de conclusão do curso, após a criação do Ministério da Defesa. Para isso, foram investigadas as legislações de ensino, os Planos de Disciplinas, os títulos e as palavras-chave das monografias, nos dando uma parte da dimensão de como essa classe militar é formada e uma premissa de como pensam os temas relacionados à Defesa. Constatamos que as Políticas e as Estratégias de Defesa nacionais, bem como as novas conjunturas no campo da segurança e defesa internacional, após a Guerra Fria, estabeleceram mudanças na formação do Estado-Maior do Exército no período de 1999 a 2013. Identificamos as influências das legislações, diretrizes e ações estabelecidas pelo Ministério da Defesa, demonstrando que o Exército não é totalmente refratário e se ajusta, mesmo que lentamente e a seu modo, às transformações exigidas por outros órgãos e pelos eventos externos à instituição. Porém, cabe destacar, que as mudanças afetaram, mas continuam não interferindo na autonomia militar. As mudanças observadas foram protagonizadas pelos próprios militares, que estabelecem os critérios de mudanças de acordo com seus interesses e perspectivas, reafirmando a autonomia institucional. Este trabalho contribui para as discussões sobre o ensino militar brasileiro e sobre quais Forças Armadas desejamos, tendo como contexto o perfil estratégico planejado pelo país e os princípios democráticos. / [en] The purpose of this research is to study the formation of Army career officers in the Course of Command and Staff College of the Brazilian Army, by verifying the impacts of defense policies in course content, and graduating papers, after the creation of the Ministry of Defense. For this, we investigated the related legislation, the curriculum, the titles of thesis and key-words that gave us a partial idea of how military are formed, and how they think the issues related to defense. We found that policies and national defense strategies, along with new situations in the field of international security, and defense after the Cold War, established changes in the formation of career officers during the 1999-2013 period. Thus, we identified the influences of law, guidelines and actions established by the Ministry of Defense, demonstrating that the Army is not entirely refractory and adapts to transformations required by other agencies and by events external to the institution, though in a low way and at its own path. However, it is worth noting that the changes affect, but still do not interfere with military autonomy. The observed modifications were created by the military themselves, who set the changing criteria according to Army interests and perspectives reaffirming institutional autonomy. This work contributes to the discussions on the Brazilian military education, and on the desired Armed Forces within the context of the strategic profile planned by the country according to democratic principles.

面對近年來恐怖主義持續壯大及ISIS恐怖組織，由其面對孤狼恐怖主義(lone wolf terrorism)攻擊頻繁發生在世界各地，如挪威槍擊事件、波士頓馬拉松爆炸案、國內高鐵行李爆裂物及法國查理週刊等事件中，就可以看出恐怖主義在全球漫延。在2016年美國恐怖主義報告中提到，「東亞國家積極參與打擊恐怖主義，以澳大利亞、日本、馬來西亞、紐西蘭、南韓、新加坡及臺灣是全球打擊ISIS聯盟的合作夥伴。」可見我國面對恐怖主義已是美國盟友之一，並不能置身事外，需要面對未知的恐怖攻擊並想辦法應對，只有做好萬全的準備才能在發生恐攻時迅速解決。目前我國已制定初步的反恐怖行動策略，雖然在中華民國尚未發生重大的恐怖行動，我們還是必須做準備，瞭解自己有多大能量能因應能恐怖攻擊，在機制上如何上下通聯及左右協調，確保整個機制能正常運作。 國軍依行政院指導，就部隊能力及恐怖攻擊行動性質，完成反恐任務部隊整備，依令執行反恐應援任務。當國內發生恐怖攻擊事件時，依行政院國土安全應變中心任務需求，由國軍聯合作戰指揮中心派遣專責、專業、地區應變部隊，協力反恐應援任務。為防止恐怖主義對國家的威脅，必須建立相關機制及應變單位，我國國軍主要反恐任務部隊，主要為憲兵特勤隊、陸軍航特部特勤中隊及海軍陸戰隊特勤中隊等三支特勤隊，而憲兵特勤隊成立之初就是因反恐而編成，所以不論在裝備、人員、武器及訓練上都可做為國內反恐的指標。但在解嚴後的執行面漸漸被警察及海巡特勤隊取代其任務，若在恐攻發生時要如何執行反恐任務，在國家及國防部反恐機制中能否運作，憲兵本就具有軍司法警察身分，擔負協力維護治安的重任，更是國家元首的鐵衛軍，在實際上執行任務有法可依循，在國軍精減後繼續朝向「量少、質精、戰力強」的目標邁進，要如何應證憲兵特勤隊的能力，一方面需要法規及制度的配合，另一方面要完備反恐各整備，才能在關鍵時刻完成任務。 / The purpose of this thesis is to evaluate and study the role of MPSSC in the chain of command within the anti-terrorism mechanism system. Faced with escalating threat of international terrorism and ISIS regime in recent years, lone wolf terrorism attacks have frequently occurred around the globe, to name a few: the 2011 Norway attacks, Boston Marathon bombings, Taiwan high-speed rail baggage bursts and French Charlie Weekly and other events. In the 2016 United States Terrorism Report, “East Asian countries have been actively involved in the fight against terrorism, with Australia, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan as partners in the global fight against ISIS.” ROC (Taiwan) has been taking important role as one of the American allies and cannot be left out of the fight. The island country is ought to be prepared for an unknown yet possible terrorist attack. Though thus far no major terrorism activities had burst out in Taiwan, the government has already proposed a preliminary strategy for anti-terrorism action, in the event of possible terrorist actions on the island. The island country must be prepared and understand how much energy it can produce to deal with terrorist attacks, as well as efficient internal coordination in the chain of command within the anti-terrorism mechanism. The ROC (Taiwan) Executive Yuan commands The island country’s National Army. The Army formulates a counter-terrorism task force in terms of its military capability and the nature of a terrorist attacks. In the event of a terrorist attacks, the Executive Yuan Homeland Security Response Center issues mission statement and the National Army Joint Operations Command Center is responsible to compose and deploy a dedicated, professional, contingency local forces. In order to prevent the threat, relevant mechanisms and contingency units are required to establish. The island country`s main anti-terrorism task force: MPSSC, the Airborne Special Service Company (ASSC) and the Chinese Marine Corps Special Service Company (CMC.SSC). The MPSSC was initially founded to fight against terrorism, therefore in terms of equipment, personnel, weapons and training can be demonstrated as a domestic anti-terrorism indicators. Yet starting in the 80s, post Martial-Law period, Wei-An Police Special Services Commando (WAPSSC) and Coast Guard Administration Special Task Unit (CGA-STU) has gradually took over in importance. In the event of a terrorist attack, the role of the MPSSC and its frame of operation within the Ministry of Defense mechanism are still not clear. The MPSSC is the military police, by its nature and the law; it is committed to the task of maintaining law and order. The MPSSC is also the iron guard of the president. After the streamline of the National Army, the goal strive to a “less, quality, strong fighting” forces is still in process. In order to prove and account for the ability of the MPSSC, a clear, regulated law and institutional cooperation in required on one hand, and a combat -ready preparation status is also required on the other hand.