When studying exit strategies and their (military) implications, historical parallels come to mind. Because they are full of analogies with present-day expeditionary missions, for the purpose of this book probably the most thought-provoking and informative exits are those related to the process of decolonisation. …

In maart 2011 dreigde Muammer Gaddafi van Libya duizenden onschuldige burgers van de stad Benghazi uit hun huizen te halen om hen te vermoorden. De Veiligheidsraad van de Verenigde Naties verwees de situatie door naar het Internationaal Strafhof in Den Haag, dwong een no-flyzone af en gaf de NAVO een …

In March 2012, an atrocity was committed in two villages in the Kandahar Province of Afghanistan. One night, an American soldier entered three houses and killed sixteen people, including women and children. In response to this violent outburst of one of its soldiers, the United States (US) authorities …

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) currently dominate the Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) community and there are no signs that this will change in the near future. But for many years the weeknesses of GNSS have been well known and besides research into GNSS a lot of research into back …

Analysis of the newest US strategy on Afghanistan and Pakistan. As such, it raises the questions what are realistic goals and ambition levels, differences between strategies of western partners, as well as burden sharing among them. Whether the new strategy will succeed, of course, also depends on Afghan …

The author, writing directly from his personal experiences, describes the difficulty of leading air force activities in a complex operation like in Afghanistan. Not only gaining and maintaining air superiority, and providing air support and transport, was on the agenda of ISAFs air force headquarters …

The collapse of the Soviet Union meant the removal of the main adversary of NATO, and many believed that NATO had become obsolete given its original purpose of countering the Soviet communist threat. The end of the Cold War caused a debate about the future role and the necessity of the Alliance. It soon …

Since western societies are threatened by culture-related terrorist attacks, multicultural attitudes are changing and intercultural tensions induce ethnic groups to stand opposite towards each other. This renders ethnic and cultural diversity an important subject for research, not only in society at large, …

On the basis of theoretical and empirical considerations the author concludes that values of chivalry, such as courtesy, politeness, etiquette, courage and honour are still relevant for the modern Cadets Corps. In particular rules of conduct, which find expression in etiquette, are the subject of investigation …

The article first describes the past and present of the academic education at the Belgian Royal Military Academy, a university institution charged with the common basic education of career officers of all Services. It then explains the fundamental restructuring process that is now underway, i.e. the …