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The Backbone of Military Educational Institutions? – Book of Abstracts ISMS 2017 MILITÆRE STUDIER SE FORSVARETS STABSSKOLE 2017 Military Sciences – The Backbone of Military Educational Institutions? – Book of abstracts ISMS 2017 Anders McD Sookermany, Eystein Lockwood Meyer, David M. Last Forsvarets stabsskole (FSTS) Akershus festning, bygning 10, Postboks 1550 Sentrum, 0015 Oslo, Norge Forsvarets stabsskole er en del av Forsvarets høgskole (FHS). Som faglig uavhen- gig høgskole utøver FHS sin virksomhet i overensstemmelse med anerkjente vitenskapelige, pedagogiske og etiske prinsipper (jf. Lov om universiteter og høgskoler § 1–5). Sjef Forsvarets stabsskole: Oberst Atle Gerhard Stai Militære studier er en militærfaglig tidsskriftserie innenfor Forsvarets stabsskoles ulike fagområder. Alle synspunkter, vurderinger og konklusjoner som fremkom- mer i denne publikasjonen står for forfatterens egen regning. Hel eller delvis gjengivelse av innholdet kan bare skje med forfatterens samtykke. Ansvarlig redaktør: Orlogskaptein Thomas Slensvik Medredaktør: Silje Fordal Nålsund Norwegian Defence Command and Staff College Akershus festning, bygning 10, Postboks 1550 Sentrum, 0015 Oslo, Norway The Norwegian Defence Command and Staff College is part of the Norwegian Defence University College (FHS). As an independent university college, FHS conducts its professional activities in accordance with recognized scientific, pedagogical and ethical principles (pursuant to the Act pertaining to Universities and University Colleges, section 1–5). Chief Norwegian Defence Command and Staff College: Colonel Atle Gerhard Stai Militære studier is an independent military journal attached to the Norwegian Defence Command and Staff College’s broad portfolio of professional interests. All views, assessments and conclusions which appear in this publication are the author’s own. The author’s permission is required for any reproduction, wholly or in part, of the contents. Editor-in-chief: Commander Thomas Slensvik Co-editor: Silje Fordal Nålsund © 2016 Forsvarets stabsskole hogskolene.forsvaret.no/forsvarets-hogskole/avdelinger/fsts/Sider/fsts.aspx Military Sciences – The Backbone of Military Educational Institutions? – Book of abstracts ISMS 2017 Anders McD Sookermany Eystein Lockwood Meyer David M. Last Utgiver Forsidebilde Forsvarets stabsskole/FHS Akershus festning. Redaksjon Photo Ansvarlig redaktør: Thomas Slensvik © 2005 by Tomasz Sienicki Medredaktør: Silje Fordal Nålsund Trykk Grafisk design 07 Media – 07.no commandogroup.no Henvendelser om skriftserien kan rettes til ISSN Forsvarets stabsskole/Forsvarets høgskole 1894-2547 [email protected] Tekst All abstracts are reviewed and accepted by the Working Group Chairpersons of ISMS for inclusion in the #ISMS17 conference in Oslo, November 15th-17th, 2017. Authors Anders McD Sookermany is a senior research fellow at the Norwegian Defence University College (NDUC). He is a serving Lieutenant Colonel with a Defense College education supplemented with a doctorate degree in pedagogy and a masters degree in Philosophy of Sport. His research interest is related to skill-acquisition in postmodern/modern military contexts. Currently Sookermany is heading a R&D-program entitled Learning under Risk (LuR). The overall aim of the program is to describe, understand and explain the risk dimension in soldiers’ learning before, during and after participation in military operations. Besides this, Sookermany has served on several national and international committees, councils and working groups within the broader scope of learning, training, performance and culture. He is a serving member of the Editorial Board of Armed Forces & Society and the current President to ISMS were he also acts as the NDUC Council member. Eystein Lockwood Meyer is a Commander (Senior Grade) in the Royal Norwegian Navy and holds a MA in Defence Studies from Kings College London and a postgraduate diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership from The Chartered Management Institute. He has a wide service background from Coastal Artillery, Coastal Ranger Commando, ISAF PRT Meymaneh, ISTAR Manager in NLMARFOR Amphibious Task Group, Intelligence Functional Team (J2) in NATO Force Command Heidelberg, and is currently teaching maritime and joint operations at the Norwegian Command and Staff College. He has previously published a book chapter about the changing character of naval power during World War One and articles in the Norwegian Military Journal (NMT) about Operation Shingle, Chromite, and The Suez Crisis 1956 and The Unpredictability of War. Commander Meyer is the Head of the #ISMS17 Conference Committee and presents during the conference an abstract for a future book chapter about “Rapid British Amphibious Response as a Force Multiplier in the Nordic – Baltic Theatre” for the Changing Character of War program. David M. Last, PhD, is a graduate of the Royal Military College of Canada (BA), Carleton University (MA), the London School of Economics (PhD), and the US Army Command and General Staff College (MMAS). He served in the Canadian army for 30 years, and has taught political science and war studies at the Royal Military College of Canada since 1999, including three years as MILITÆRE STUDIER SE/2017 registrar. He served in Germany during the Cold War and his peacekeeping assignments included commanding Blue Beret Camp in Cyprus, Force Commander’s staff in Croatia, and Civil Affairs in Bosnia, with field research on conflict management in the Balkans, West Africa and the Middle East. He has edited or co-edited six books and published more than 60 chapters and articles on peacekeeping, conflict, and higher education. Since 2009 his research has focused on conflict management, taking a global comparative perspective on security education. He currently serves as the Chair of the Military Education Working Group in the International Society of Military Sciences, the co-chair of the Police and Military Relations Working Group of ERGOMAS, and teaches in the undergraduate and graduate programs of the Royal Military College in Kingston, and the graduate program of the Canadian Forces College in Toronto. He is married to Dr. Desre Kramer of Toronto. 6 MILITARY SCIENCES – THE BACKBONE OF MILITARY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS? – BOOK OF ABSTRACTS ISMS 2017 Innhold Editor Foreword 13 Authors Foreword #ISMS17 Book of Abstracts 15 Description of the ISMS Working Groups 17 WG 1 War Studies 21 How innovation theory can contribute to the military operations planning process 21 The evolution of operational intelligence causative Russian special services on the territory of the Republic of Poland 26 With Car and Kitchen Knife – How To Respond When Homegrown Violent Extremism Goes Low-Tech? 30 An Integrated Multiplatform Approach To Joint Operations For Fighting Terrorism And Other International Threats 33 Assessing the strategic effect of offensive air operations 36 Rapid British Amphibious Response as a Force Multiplier in the Nordic – Baltic Theatre 40 Internationalization of ethnic conflicts and impact on regional and international security 42 Like Cain and Abel. Internal political tensions in the Iraqi Kurdistan (KRG) in the context of interests of external actors 44 Soviet and Russian Military Science Concept 46 Intelligence Engineering: Operating Beyond the Conventional 48 Serious «Gaming for Peace» and military cross-cultural competence 50 Deterrence and Escalation Control as Components of Conflict Management: The Theory-Analysis Nexus as Prior Requirement for Effective Operational Decisions in the Euro-Atlantic Theatre 2014–2017 52 Mediation In Modern Armed Conflicts 55 WG 2 Military History 59 The Egyptian Antitank Layout in 1973 Yom Kippur War – The Answer to Israel’s Armor Superiority 59 «Graf Strachwitz’s Raid» in August 1944: What and how we can learn from World War II experience? 62 Three Seas Initiative as the Polish geopolitical concept 65 Longbows, Coercion-Extraction, and General Maximus: The Military Revolution of Pre-Modern and Early Modern Europe and the Modern Officer 66 7 Military History in Portugal. Post-Graduate Teaching in Military History in the University of Lisbon and the network with the Portuguese Military Schools 68 The epistemology of Danish military history – A historiographical overview of the use of military history in Danish officer education and its scientific implications 71 The Establishment of the Military Academy at Wiener Neustadt at 1751 from Empress Maria Theresa and the Battle of Kolin at 1757 74 WG 3 Military Technology 79 Brain-machine interface and the future soldier. Where science fiction meets neuroscience 79 New Methods to Improve Privacy Protection in Wireless Military Networks 83 Modeling imbalance of cyber operations between closed and open national networks 87 The tendencies of unmanned ground vehicles development in the context of future warfare: The russian armed forces’ concepts in support of land operations 95 WG 4 Leadership, Command and Control and Basic Competences 99 Preparation Of Artillery Fire Support Officers Of Brigade Task Forces And Possibilities Of Their Practical Education 99 Formal and Informal Leadership Processes in a JHQ 102 Psychology and Military applications: Military Resilience – the scale 103 The Military Morale and Its Instruments in Estonian Defence Forces 105 Military mid-level leaders containing ability and leadership: A key to work satisfaction and organizational effectiveness 109 Effective way of training military-technical specialists of missile forces and artillery in the contex of military conflict. Ukraine’s experience 112 Leading with motivation:
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