| Title: | The Impact of the 1968 Prague Spring on Czechoslovak and Yugoslav Military Doctrines |
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| Authors: | ID Torkar, Blaž (Author)
ID Polnar, Stanislav (Author) |
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| Files: |  PDF - Presentation file, download (2,41 MB)
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 URL - Source URL, visit https://publ.zdjp.si/index.php/ah/issue/view/52
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| Language: | English |
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| Typology: | 1.01 - Original Scientific Article |
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| Organization: |  IRRIS - Institute IRRIS for Research, Development and Strategies of Society, Culture and Environment
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| Abstract: | This paper analyzes and compares the impact of the 1968 Prague Spring on military and strategic thinking in Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. A great change in the Czechoslovakian military caused Memorandum 68, a proposal of domestic military doctrine which consistently took into account the vital security interests of Czechoslovakia in international relations at that time. The document was mainly based on the inviolability of Czechoslovak territory and the right of its nations to defend their own existence regardless of the superpower interests of the Soviet Union. At the same time Yugoslavia began to develop its own doctrine of the General People’s Defence and Social Self-Protection, which emphasized its total nature, creating the reality of the concept of a “nation in arms,” which attached great importance to soldiers and the art of soldiering in Yugoslavia. |
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| Keywords: | Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Prague Spring, military doctrine, Memorandum 68, NATO, Warsaw Pact |
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| Publication status: | Published |
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| Publication version: | Version of Record |
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| Publication date: | 01.01.2023 |
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| Year of publishing: | 2023 |
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| Number of pages: | 307-332 |
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| Numbering: | 31, 2 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DiRROS-30872  |
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| UDC: | 94(05), 94:355.02(497.1:437) |
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| ISSN on article: | 1318-0185 |
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| DOI: | 10.19233/AH.2023.14 |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 184074755 |
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| Copyright: | Imetniki avtorskih pravic na prispevkih so avtorji. CC BY-NC 4.0 |
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| Note: | Besedilo v angl.; |
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| Publication date in DiRROS: | 08.07.2026 |
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| Views: | 146 |
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| Downloads: | 103 |
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