RETHINKING STRATEGY IN THE SECURITY AND DEFENCE AREA

Pojam strategija razvio se u okviru vojne organizacije i odatle je ušao u druga područja djelovanja. Međutim, od sredine 20. stoljeća razumijevanje strategije, koje je oblikovano u poslovnom svijetu, sve češće ulazi u vojni, obrambeni i sigurnosni sektor i postaje utjecajnije i raširenije od tradicionalnog, izvornog razumijevanja strategije. Problem nastaje kad se alati razvijeni u okviru takvog shvaćanja strategije prenesu na područje obrane i sigurnosti jer u tom procesu dolazi do reduciranja onih aspekata koji se ne mogu brojčano izraziti. Rad se posebno usredotočuje na konceptualizaciju strategije u području sigurnosti i obrane, naročito zbog redukcije poimanja strategije u tom području uslijed povećanja zanimanja za sigurnosne i vojne teme u suvremenim društvima (pitanje sekuritizacije), koje je obilježeno površnošću i dominacijom dnevnopolitičkih inputa zbog tradicionalno velike važnosti sigurnosnih tema za zajednicu te zbog niza neuspjelih pokušaja strateške konceptualizacije u području sigurnosti u Hrvatskoj. U radu se daje kratak osvrt na pokušaje uobličavanja konzistentne teorije strategije preko prikaza ends, ways, means modela. Na kraju rada dana je studija slučaja – donošenje hrvatskih strategija za prevenciju i suzbijanje terorizma, preko koje se dobro uočavaju slabosti recentne hrvatske prakse u donošenju strategija u području sigurnosti i obrane.The term strategy has been developed in the military organization and from there went into other areas of activity. However, since the mid-20th century, understanding the strategies that had been designed in the business world, it is returned to the military, defence and security sector, and such an understanding of strategy has become more dominant and more widespread than the traditional, original understanding. The problem arises when the tools developed in the framework of business understanding of strategy has been translated into the area of defence and security, because in this process there are reductions in all those aspects that can not be quantified. This paper focuses specifically on the strategic conceptualization in the field of security and defence, especially because of that reduction of strategy in the area of security and defence; due to increased interest in security and military issues that are present in modern societies (the issue of securitization), but that interest is characterized by a high level of superficiality and the domination of daily political inputs; due to traditionally high importance of security issues for the community; and due to a series of unsuccessful attempts of strategic conceptualization in the security area in Croatia. The paper provides a brief overview of the attempts to shape a consistent theory of strategy, through the review of ends, ways, means models. At the end paper provides case study – adoption of Croatian strategy for preventing and combating terrorism through that the weaknesses of recent Croatian practice in making strategy in the field of security and defence are very well visible