NATO RESILIANCE, DETER AND PROFESIONAL MILITARY EDUCATION

Neno Hristov Hristov
Colonel Associate Professor, Ph.D., D. Sc. (National Security)
Military Academy Sofia, Bulgaria, email: neno.hristov@gmail.com

Abstract

Our professional military education still lags in the attention it gives to contemporary deterrence problems. We try to provide a comprehensive framework for officer education across the strategic, operational, and tactical domains but curiously fails to highlight the need to teach deterrence in the professional military education classrooms. In this respect, we have to prepare our students for deterrence and escalation issues. It is critical to adapt their core curricula to include vital content on deterrence, escalation, cross-domain conflict, and crisis management under the nuclear shadow. Deterrence is not completely neglected in our core curricula, same individual academic or research faculty offer electives, even first-rate elective classes but still for a small number of students.

Keywords: education, NATO, national military and educational system.