Journal of
Defense Resources Management
Indexed by:
JoDRM Volume 1, Issue no. 1 (1), September 2010
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HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT EDUCATION - FROM OPERATIONAL CONCEPTUALIZATION TO THE MILITARY SYSTEM’S TRANSFORMATION Teodor FRUNZETI National Defense University “Carol I”, Romania |
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| The strategic environment underwent significant alterations having to do with the nature and typology of risks, both globally and regionally. Therefore, military policies and strategies have altered significantly, that is, passing from risk-based defense planning to capability-based defense planning. This calls for the development of a robust modeling and simulation architecture of the military systems for educational and training purposes in order to achieve short-, medium-, and long-term capabilities. The accomplishment of an education and training architecture at a joint and inter-agency level permits the analysis and confirmation of solutions for functional fields. | ||
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symmetrical and asymmetrical war, threats, non-state actors, military education and training, new concepts development |
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ADVANCED DISTRIBUTED LEARNING (ADL)PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE IN THE REGIONAL DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE RESOURCES MANAGEMENT STUDIES EDUCATIONAL ENDEAVOR Cezar VASILESCU*, Ion ROCEANU**, Florin GROSARU* * Regional Department of Defense Resources Management Studies, Romania ** National Defense University “CAROL I”, Romania |
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| Throughout the years, Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) became an important part of DRESMARA’s teaching and education programs. This paper presents an overview of the past and present ADL related initiatives that took place in DRESMARA, along with a short analysis of key issues related with ADL implementation. Also presents the content of a typical online complementary package that provides all the needed support for a resident course. In the end presents the latest developments and efforts to bring innovative and effective methods, practices and technology to the NATO Alliance and the Partnership for Peace Program, in order to enhance education and training initiatives and enrich DRESMARA’s course offering. | ||
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Advanced Distributed Learning, e-learning, learning management system, ILIAS, information system. |
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THE CHALLENGE AND BENEFITS OF USING PROJECT MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES IN MILITARY EDUCATION:WH-QUESTIONS AS QUALITY CATALYSTS Livia Ecaterina TĂTAR Regional Department of Defense Resources Management Studies, Romania |
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| The present coordinates of the world we live in pose various challenges, amongst which education is an essential one. When approaching military education, the effectiveness of the courses and training processes can sometimes make the difference between life and death. The hereby article argues that a pragmatic business-like approach to implementing new educational programmes in the military may contribute significantly to increasing the usefulness of the courses provided within the system. More precisely, the author sustains the idea of addressing questions such as why or what is needed, and particularly who is involved and who are the beneficiaries of these programmes. | ||
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military education, project management, course implementation, resources, customers, communication. |
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THE PLANNING, PROGRAMING, BUDGETING SYSTEM AND ITS IMPLEMENTATION IN THE SERBIAN MINISTRY OF DEFENSE Sasa RADUSKI Republic of Serbia, Ministry of Defense, Accounting Center |
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| The main purpose of introducing the PPBES to the Serbian Ministry of Defense and the Serbian Armed Forces is to provide a rational management of resources and to maintain and build capacity of the Ministry and the Serbian Armed Forces in order to achieve their goals, objectives and missions. Expected results of implementation of the PPBES are reflected in increasing the efficiency and rationalization of the defense planning to a higher level, ensuring compatibility with defense planning and budgeting system of the state and developing a foundation for the effective management of defense resources. | ||
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planning, programming, major programs, program managers, budgeting, evaluation. |
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NET PRESENT VALUE SIMULATING WITH A SPREADSHEET Maria CONSTANTINESCU Regional Department of Defense Resources Management Studies, Romania |
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| Decision making has always been a difficult process, based on various combinations if objectivity (when scientific tools were used) and subjectivity (considering that decisions are finally made by people, with their strengths and weaknesses). The IT revolution has also reached the areas of management and decision making, helping managers make better and more informed decisions by providing them with a variety of tools, from the personal computers to the specialized software. Most simulations are performed in a spreadsheet, because the number of calculations required soon overwhelms human capability. | ||
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| decision making, simulation, net present value | ||
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THE DEFENSE PLANNING SYSTEMS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS Laszlo STICZ Hungary, Ministry of Defense, Development & Logistics Agency |
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| Defense planning in the Alliance is a fundamental element of the arrangements which enable its member countries to enjoy the crucial political, military and resource advantages of collective defense and other common military efforts to enhance security and stability. In this respect, the aim of this paper is to outline the role of the Armed Forces and the specific processes aiming to achieve the ultimate goal of a nation regarding national security, with focus on defense planning and the PDPS. | ||
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NATO, defense planning, PDPS, defense resources management |
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ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE: A MATTER OF INDIVIDUAL AND GROUP BEHAVIOR TRANSFORMATION Aura CODREANU Regional Department of Defense Resources Management Studies, Romania |
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| Contemporary life is raising a plethora of challenges for all organizations. Therefore, flexibility and continuous change ought to be their priorities. The main problem is how to actually implement change and make it work. The answer suggested by this article is that by transforming people’s behavior and attitudes one can actually lead to organizational change. However, some insight into the prerequisites needed to transform individual and work group attitudes and behavior is required. As a result, in order to identify and list a set of principles that should play the role of the 10 Commandments in any organizational change process the aim of this article is to take a theoretical approach to this issue. | ||
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organizational change, behavior transformation, attitude, group dynamics |
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CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT Brînduşa Maria POPA Regional Department of Defense Resources Management Studies, Romania |
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| Knowledge management is the process by which the organizations generate wealth from their intellectual assets putting both tacit and explicit knowledge into action. Nowadays having access to data and information is something ordinary and easy to be done thanks to the advancements in IT and communications; still this is not enough when it comes to solving a problem: having the tools does not imply that one has the knowledge of how to use them. | ||
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data, information, knowledge, knowledge management, tacit and explicit knowledge |
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ROMANIAN DEFENSE RESOURCES MANAGEMENT UNDER CRISIS CONDITIONS Iulian N. BUJOREANU Regional Department of Defense Resources Management Studies, Romania |
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| Defense resources management is a harder field to deal with in economic and social crisis conditions. It is not under war but peace conditions and one has to understand it as if it were under war conditions. The paper introduces the reader to the possible type of approach and factors to be considered when developing strategies and implementing directives in time of peace with a consideration of resources as if it war in time of war. Risk analysis is of outmost importance in dealing with resource allocation in time of crisis, and directions to it are proposed here. Also, a different view of the chain of command in the hierarchy and its role in crisis time, responsibilities and attributes one should fulfill in the decision-making process for the reason of efficiency and effectiveness in the military field. Finally, a round-up conclusion brings us to the question if anything can be done without the political factor involved and which type of involvement it should be. | ||
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defense resources management, risk analysis, decision making process |
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ETHICS AND THE MILITARY COMMUNITY Victor DOBBIN The Leadership and Ethics Centre, Northern Ireland |
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| Military communities differ in how they implement ethics training. Some have well developed programmes while others have only a few stand-alone presentations. For this reason it is difficult to produce a template to suit every situation. Leadership training within the Military is generally of a very high standard and it is particularly important in relation to the development of high moral standards, whereas the training in ethics various considerably throughout the military world. Therefore, even though we regard our ethics programme to be of a very high standard there is always the need to review what we have in place and update it. Codes of Ethics need to be revised from time to time and we can gain valuable insight from sharing and comparing our training programmes with other militaries. | ||
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ethics, military community, leadership, moral standards, core values. |
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THE COMMUNICATIVE DIMENSION OF THE ROMANIAN SOLDIER’S ETHNIC PROFILE Adrian LESENCIUC, Daniela NAGY “Henri Coandă” Air Force Academy, Romania |
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| The Romanian soldier’s ethnic profile modifies in relation with the general profile, due to the fact that representations and perceptions are conditioned by specific patterns and life experiences. Starting from the general characterological delimitation of the Romanian “individual” and relating to a study on the military students’ ethnic profile, accomplished on a sample of 1,020 students, we observe a relation to the national identity influenced by the tendencies of “community” annihilation. The Romanian soldier is confronted with problems originating in the classical logic of integration/differentiation, which sometimes implies compulsions of the double compulsion. The communicative dimension of the Romanian soldier’s ethnic profile is strongly emphasized by the polychronic and permissive structure and by a predisposition toward receptivity. But even this relational component involves the paradoxical approach by appealing to natural openness, doubled by the necessary precaution for protecting the Romanian identity, in the sense of subordinating to the paradoxical sign of “closing for openness”. | ||
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ethnic profile, communicative dimension, national identity, axiological categories. |
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NATO CONCEPT EVOLUTION – CONSEQUENCE OF THE CHANGES OCCURRED IN THE INTERNATIONAL SECURITY ENVIRONMENT Marin ILIE National Defense University „Carol I”, Romania |
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| We initiated our endeavor staring from an undisputed reality, that is, NATO changes its strategies and, implicitly, concepts, according to the developments occurred in the international security environment, in order to be able to respond to any challenge operatively and adequately. We would like to emphasize that regardless of the concepts formulation and application, the Organization’s fundamental values, and particularly its purely defensive character and the principle of collective defense do not alter. | ||
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NATO concepts, international security environment, changes, unpredictable and complex challenges. |
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REVIEW OF MODELS AND ANALYTIC INSTRUMENTS IN OPERATIONAL MILITARY DECISION MAKING PROCESS Alexandru GĂLUŞCĂ*, Ionică CÎRCIU **, Mircea BOSCOIANU ** *Air Force Staff, Romania ** “Henri Coandă” Air Force Academy, Romania |
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| In the era of IT, the high level military decision making process (MDMP) made a lot of progress. The focus is on building a framework capable to offer an effective tool for decisions in the field of force planning and operations planning. The complexity is influenced by the fact that high-level decision making occurs in uncertain environment that affects an extended set of factors (political, military, economic, social, information, infrastructure). The response based on different type of instruments (diplomatic, information, military, economic) should be supported by a new framework, capable to offer the power of selection is given by the limitation of resources. The use of modeling and simulation offer a better understanding of the concepts and solutions for commander’s decision making. The effective way to adopt a flexible, adaptive, and robust solution is totally different from the classic planning and is better focused on the exploitation of the strengths elements of the human creativity and knowledge. New analytical framework will offer also effective instruments in real time, capable to support the optimal decision making. | ||
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MDMP (military decision making process), DSS (decision support systems), CoA (course of action), modeling and simulation (M&S), the inspiration from economics |
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WARFARE IN THE INFORMATION AGE Laurian GHERMAN Regional Department of Defense Resources Management Studies, Romania |
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| The paper is focused on changes occurred in military organizations in Information Age. During Industrial Age the military structure of forces evolved according with principles of decomposition, specialization, hierarchy, optimization, deconfliction, centralized planning, and decentralized execution. But now the solutions based upon Industrial Age assumptions and practices will break down and fail in the Information Age. This will happen no matter how well intentioned, hardworking, or dedicated the leadership and the force are. Two key force capabilities needed by Information Age militaries are interoperability and agility. Both interoperability and agility are provided by Network centric warfare theory of war. | ||
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| information, warfare, network, command, control, | ||
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NEUTROSOPHIC SET – A GENERALIZATION OF THE INTUITIONISTIC FUZZY SET Florentin SMARANDACHE University of New Mexico, Romania |
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| In this paper one generalizes the intuitionistic fuzzy set (IFS), paraconsistent set, and intuitionistic set to the neutrosophic set (NS). Many examples are presented. Distinctions between NS and IFS are underlined. | ||
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Intuitionistic Fuzzy Set, Paraconsistent Set, Intuitionistic Set, Neutrosophic Set, Non-standard Analysis, Philosophy. |
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MONITORING AND CONTROLLING AUTOMATION SYSTEMS USING SMARTPHONES / PDA Daniel SORA Regional Department of Defense Resources Management Studies, Romania |
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| Many people will be able to leave their laptop at the office and handle essentially all of their mobile computing and communications tasks with a pocket-sized device. Now, the smartphone might not be one’s first choice for spreadsheets and documents, but let’s face it, everybody has one (in business, anyway, all over the world), and those that have one will buy a new one sometime in the next two years as cellular contracts expire and products and wireless technologies continue their rapid evolution. Smartphones have been as powerful as PCs for just a few years, with significantly better software, user interfaces, and flexibility. The level of capability in contemporary smartphones is remarkable and continues to grow. | ||
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Smartphone, PDA, automation, monitoring, wireless, LabView, security |
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AN OVERVIEW OF SEARCHING AND DISCOVERING WEB BASED INFORMATION RESOURCES Cezar VASILESCU Regional Department of Defense Resources Management Studies, Romania |
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| The Internet becomes for most of us a daily used instrument, for professional or personal reasons. We even do not remember the times when a computer and a broadband connection were luxury items. More and more people are relying on the complicated web network to find the needed information This paper presents an overview of Internet search related issues, upon search engines and describes the parties and the basic mechanism that is embedded in a search for web based information resources. Also presents ways to increase the efficiency of web searches, through a better understanding of what search engines ignore at websites content. | ||
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information resources, search engines, spiders, web pages, information system. |
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FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF THE CROSSING (PASSING) CAPACITY FOR WHEEL SPECIAL MILITARY VEHICLES Cornel ARAMĂ*, Andreea ARAMĂ** *“Henri Coandă” Air Force Academy, Romania **freelancer, Romania |
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| In mountain corps, the combat surprise of the enemy is made, first of all, by mobility. For this, when the horses are not used, the access of vehicles in difficult access areas is sometimes vital because it is a surprise for the enemy, the attacks of special troops of mountaineers can be surprising or the mountain artillery companies can supply their troops better. This is the reason why my doctoral research has focused on the influences of ground features on the capacity of crossing, especially in the cold period of the year, because most of the time mountain rangers’ corps take action in this kind of conditions. The tests were made in real conditions, during the missions and the field exercises, in tough climatic and atmospheric conditions, exclusively in mountains in winter. | ||
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| mobility, stability, crossing capacity, precessional transmission, wheeling characteristic. | ||
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