U.S. Air Force Strategic Deterrence Capabilities in the 21st Century Security Environment

2013 ◽  

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
David W. Smith




2017 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 910-914
Author(s):  
Raluca Iulia Iulian

After the end of the Cold War, the new European and global security environment has undergone profound changes. In the new security environment, international terrorism represents one of the main threats at a global level, the others being the proliferation of chemical, atomic, and bacteriological weapons of destruction and organized crime. Terrorism is difficult to define. Although it is an important issue today, there is no unanimously accepted scientific definition. There have been numerous attempts to define terrorism that complement each other. The paper focuses on Islamic terrorism which has undergone a certain evolution over time and has proliferated in recent years. Nowadays, it has some particularities which will be presented in the paper; they reflect the specificity of this phenomenon with a view to understanding its origin, the purposes, and its consequences. Samuel P. Huntington’s theory of the Clash of Civilization and Eric Neumayer and Thomas Plümper’s theory of the Strategic Logic of International Terrorism provide useful explanations. The aim of the paper is to examine the evolution of this phenomenon after 9/11 2001, which represents a turning point in the evolution of international terrorism.



2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (38) ◽  
pp. 111-125
Author(s):  
Petr Rožňák

The development of globalization at the beginning of the third decade of the 21st century shows that unpredictable economic factors and new trends have a decisive influence on its course. Examples include continued sustained efforts to change the balance of power, the relativization of the Soviet Union’s share in the defeat of Hitler’s Nazi Great German Empire, the growing influence of the People’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation, turbulent developments in Belarus, as well as the impact of COVID-19 pandemic. Based on these trends, a new global system of international economic, political, social and security relations is being created. The current, dynamically and rapidly changing world brings many positive, but also many negative facts, which are manifested in various areas of human life and society. This is evidenced by the existing and ubiquitous threats and risks that prove it necessary to put security issues first. The author reflects on the current development of the security environment and the degree of threat to the security of the nation states of the Visegrad Group on the threshold of the third decade of the 21st century. The aim is to answer the question: a) Is the security environment changing: a) for better, or b) for worse? The article points out the role of the main security actors and possible changes in the security environment.





Poliarchia ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (8) ◽  
pp. 85-110
Author(s):  
Dawid Niewdana

The Role of the United States of America in the Modernisation Process of the Polish Air Force’s Combat AircraftsThe aim of the article is to analyse the modernisation of the Polish Air Force’s combat aircrafts after the end of the Cold War and to portray the role of the United States’ politicians and companies in this process. The author describes the change of the security environment in Poland and in the region, the process of acquisition of the modern multirole combat aircrafts in the beginning of the 21st century and subsequent plans, for example Plan of the Technical Modernisation.



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