Authors assume full intellectual responsibility for the articles submitted to the editorial staff, in keeping with Law no. 206, 27.05.2004 Romanian Military Thinking Journal is included in the Journal Master List of the Index Copernicus International database Contents Contenu Romanian Military Thinking 7 La pensée militaire roumaine – Essential Dimension – dimension essentielle of the Romanian Armed Forces à transformer l’Armée Roumaine Transformation Process Lieutenant-général dr. {tefan D~NIL~ Lieutenant General Dr {tefan D~NIL~ Editorial Editorial In the Front Line 11 A la première ligne on the Snowfield sur le front de la neige Colonel Dr Mircea T~NASE Colonel dr. Mircea T~NASE Conceptual Projections Projections conceptuelles Continuous Warfare 17 La guerre continue – Information Confrontation (VII) – la confrontation informationnelle (VII) General (r.) Dr Mihail ORZEA}~ Général (ret.) dr. Mihail ORZEA}~ Defendological Evaluations 28 Des évaluations de la défendologie of the Correlation between the System de la corrélation du système of Military Sciences and the System de la science militaire et du système of Economic Sciences de l’économie Brigadier General Dr Maricel POPA Général de brigade dr. Maricel POPA Social and Emotional Learning. 34 L’apprentissage sociale et émotionnel Necessity and Benefits – nécessité et avantages for the Military System pour le système militaire Brigadier General Dr Vasile ROMAN Général de brigade dr. Vasile ROMAN Mirela Claudia DRACINSCHI Mirela Claudia DRACINSCHI 3 Romanian Military Thinking ~ 1/2012 Space Dimension 45 La dimensionne de l’espace and Force Projection et la projection de la force in Joint Multinational Operations dans les opérations multinationales Colonel (AF) alliées Dr Vasile BUCINSCHI Colonel (AA) dr. Vasile BUCINSCHI Colonel Codrin-Leonard HER}ANU Colonel Codrin-Leonard HER}ANU The Conception of Reserve Forces 51 La conception pour l’instruction Training in Certain Modern Armed des forces de réserve dans les unes Forces des armées modernes Colonel Adrian B~L~L~U Colonel Adrian B~L~L~U Operational, Technical 66 Les demandes opérationnelles, and Information Requirements techniques et informationnelles that Influence Unified qui influencent le management Communications Systems des systèmes de communication unifiés Management at Operational Level au niveau opératif Colonel Dr Daniel BR~TULESCU Colonel dr. Daniel BR~TULESCU Opinions Opinions Determinants of Transport 71 Les déterminations de l’infrastructure Infrastructure on the Logistics des transports de la logistique of a Joint Task Force de groupe de force alliées in Military Actions dans les actions militaires on the National Territory sur le territoire national Colonel Dr Marian MAZILU Colonel dr. Marian MAZILU Leader Charisma 82 Le charisme du leader Colonel Dr Virgil-Ovidiu POP Colonel dr. Virgil-Ovidiu POP Projects and Initiatives in the Field 90 Projets et initiatives de coopération of Civil-Military Cooperation civil-militaire pour l’emploi d’espace for the Use of Airspace – Their Effects aérien – ses effets sur la gestion on Civil and Military Air Traffic du trafic aérien civil et militaire Management in Peacetime, à la paix, dans la crise et de la guerre during Crisis Situations et ses possibilités d’expansion and at War and Perspectives mondiale (II) for Global Expansion (II) Colonel (AA) Relu PANAIT Colonel (AF) Relu PANAIT 4 Contents Fifth Generation Warfare. 100La guerre de cinquième génération A SF Concept – un concept SF or an Inevitable Perspective? ou une perspective inévitable? Colonel (r.) Dr Vasile MAIER Colonel (ret.) dr Vasile MAIER Lieutenant Colonel Dr Eugen MAVRI{ Lieutenant-colonel dr. Eugen MAVRI{ Philosophy of Leadership 106La philosophie du leadership Lieutenant Colonel Lieutenant-colonel Dr Ioan-Doru APAFAIAN dr. Ioan-Doru APAFAIAN Corruption and Underground 111La corruption et l’économie Economy. Implications sous-terraine. Des implications for Economic Activities sur l’activité économiques Daniel PINTILIE Daniel PINTILIE Geopolitics • Geostrategy Geopolitique • Geostrategie International Security Securite internationale Security Strategies 118Stratégies de sécurité in Certain EU Member States. dans certains Etats européenns. The Case of France Le cas de la France Dr Tiberiu T~NASE Dr. Tiberiu T~NASE Legitimacy of Purpose 129La légitimité du but and Legality of Means et la légalité des moyens dans in Current Military Conflicts (I) les conflits armés actuelles (I) Colonel (r.) Dr Ionel HORNEA Colonel (ret.) dr. Ionel HORNEA The Global Dimension of the Civilian139La dimension mondiale Component of China’s Sea Power de la composante civile Lieutenant Colonel (N) de la puissance maritime de la Chine Lauren]iu ME{TERCA Lieutenant-colonel (MN) Lauren]iu ME{TERCA The EU Security 150Les stratégies de l’UE visant and Counter-Terrorism Strategies la sécurité et la lutte – Key Documents contre le terrorisme – des actes for the Community Area Security fondamentales pour la sécurité Dr Ioan Codru] LUCINESCU de l’espace communautaire Dr Ioan Codru] LUCINESCU 5 Romanian Military Thinking ~ 1/2012 Cooperation Perspectives 163Perspectives de la coopération in the Defence and Security dans les milieux de défense Environments in Southeastern Europe et de sécurité Valentin-Bogdan D~NIL~ dans l’Europe de Sud-est Valentin-Bogdan D~NIL~ International Connexions Connections internationales E-Power to Rise Up 175L’importance accrue the Security Agenda du “pouvoir électronique” Joseph S. NYE dans l’agenda sécuritaire Joseph S. NYE Caproni and Coand` ... Not Only Jets177Caproni et Coand` ... non seulement Francesco VADALÀ des jets Francesco VADALÀ 10 Years of Action 183Dix ans d’activités en matière on Small Arms: Where Are We Now? d’arms de petit calibre: Sarah PARKER où en sommes-nous aujourd’hui? Sarah PARKER ,,, Pages of Military Pages de l histoire History militaire Romanian-Polish Aeronautical 188Collaborations aéronautiques Collaborations roumaines-polonaises General (r.) Iosif RUS General (ret.) Iosif RUS Military Journalistic 198 Univers journalistique Universe militaire 6 ROMANIAN MILITARY THINKING Essential Dimension of the Romanian Armed Forces Transformation Process Lieutenant General Dr {tefan D~NIL~ – Chief of the General Staff – When analysing the broad transformation process that the Romanian Armed Forces are undergoing, which is generated, on the one hand, by the need of modernising the institution as a consequence of the evolution of the state and, on the other hand, by the necessity of fully integrating in the European Union and the North Atlantic Alliance, we will notice that this process too, as so many others, in fact, has been developed at first at conceptual level, in the “laboratories of analysts”, after which one has begun to put it into practice. Therefore, we should ask ourselves more often: Why is the military thinking considered so important? The transformation of the Romanian Armed Forces into modern armed forces, interoperable with the armed forces of the other allied member states, also requires the change of the normative framework that regulates the establishment and functioning of the organisational structure, this implying not only the system component elements but also the relations between them. An important dimension of the system is the military thinking itself. Starting from the fact that the military institution is based on rules and procedures whose role is to streamline its complex activities and to channel the energies of all the structures involved in a certain mission, in cooperation with the military men belonging to the other NATO or EU member states, one has often considered that the standardisation and interoperability process can be completed only by translating and implementing certain publications from these states, without making any adjustment to the national realities on the ground. It is my firm belief that this is not at all enough regarding the result expected in the domain of adapting the Romanian military thinking to the new political-military realities and the ones of the international security environment, that is why I wish 7 Romanian Military Thinking ~ 1/2012 to draw attention to two examples of situations in which I believe the current state of facts must be considerably improved. The first one refers to dealing with certain topics from the above-mentioned domains by conducting certain studies or presenting elaborated opinions of experts in the field, spread through various publications, many of them even through “Gândirea militar` româneasc`”, which, even if expressing justified criticism or realistic solutions to solve certain problems, have not been considered when drawing up or amending normative acts. The second one refers to an opposite situation, when some articles have been written only as a mental exercise, without any vision regarding their applicability, but only to meet the “requirements” of the individual scientific research programmes, and not oriented towards an actual contribution to the activity of the military organisation. I strongly believe that the theoretical study will be more efficiently guided in order to encourage those ideas that have a practical value by fixing the two mentioned situations as well as by a policy of the military publications, and “Gândirea militar` româneasc`” Journal is instrumental in this respect. Starting from the biblical verse “In the beginning was the word”, we believe the editorial staff has an obligation to encourage creative thinking and to pragmatically and exigently select the materials