23 Sodobni vojaški izzivi, junij 2012 – 14/št. 2
Contemporary Military Challenges, June 2012 – 14/No. 2
THE	ROLE	AND	USE	OF	THE	ARMED	FORCES	
IN	THE	FUTURE
The current challenges of the contemporary operational environment determine not 
only the establishment of a force structure having the necessary high engagement 
and sustainment capacity (including logistics), but also the allocation of ISTAR 
capabilities to support the fulfilment of assigned missions and the achievement of 
desired effects by the armed forces. Their support will be permanently adapted to the 
specificity of the operations in which they will be engaged, focusing on commonali-
ty, interchangeability, interoperability and integrated functioning within multinatio-
nal structures, depending on the way they will be organised, the deployment site, the 
climate, their sustainment capability in conflict areas and the legal institutionalised 
framework set up by the international organisations that will conduct those missions.
Capability1, information superiority2, engagement space3, comprehensive approach4.
The resizing and reconfiguration of the global architecture as well as the rede-
finition of the way of managing multiple and complex crises require the change of 
specific policies at international level. The asymmetric risks and threats to global 
1 The ability to carry out a specified course of action or to obtain a certain established operational effect through 
the fulfilment of specific standards in the following domains: doctrine, training, organisation, structures, 
personnel, equipment, readiness status and deployment capability.
2 The ability to carry out a specified course of action or to obtain a certain established operational effect through 
the fulfilment of specific standards in the following domains: doctrine, training, organisation, structures, 
personnel, equipment, readiness status and deployment capability.
3 It is part of the engagement environment that comprises those acceptable/unacceptable conditions and 
circumstances related to the desired end state that influence the commanders’ decision, the use of their own 
capabilities and the interaction with the other actors during the operation. It includes the air, land, naval, outer 
space, electromagnetic spectrum as well as the associated systems of enemies, friendly forces, allies, partners, 
neutrals that are relevant to the crisis (conflict) situation.
4 The way in which the parties involved in resolving a crisis (conflict) are responding to a well-coordinated and 
coherent manner to that specific situation.
Abstract
Key words
Introduction
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security will increase in intensity and form of manifestation, their prevention and 
mitigation being an absolute priority for both democratic states and international 
security organisations. The dynamics and strategic trends of future events will show 
that security and, implicitly, defence will surpass the responsibilities of a single state, 
determining an increase in the role of traditional security organisations at global and 
regional level.
The international environment will be influenced by the powerful rise of the new 
globally relevant actors, the expansion of regional blocks, the reactivation and am-
plification of the effects of separatist, interethnic and religious conflicts, the massive 
decline of the ability of authorities to efficiently manage the own political, economic 
and social state of affairs, against the background of the transition towards new 
sources of renewable energy, increased needs for food and lack of critical stable 
water reserves.
The long-term trends suggest discontinuity, shock and surprise that are manifest 
through the overlap between the roles of states, institutions and non-state actors, 
which will lead to the proliferation of new political identities within the existing mul-
tilateral institutions. These will have difficulties in adapting to the new strategic en-
vironment, the role of non-governmental organisations will increase, also occurring 
a trend of establishing new regional technological, economic and financial artificial 
quasi-blocs, which will impose new standards at global level.
The degradation of the security status and the overlap between the effects of glo-
balisation and the regional and fragmentation trends will generate new threats and 
risks that will be amplified by: increasing social unrest, natural disasters, global de-
mographic growth, resources depletion, climate change as well as new asymmetric 
threats (terrorism, organised cross-border crime, illegal migration, cyber attacks, cor-
ruption, ethnical and religious politicisation, increasing mutual antagonism between 
different cultures, export of instability trade and natural environment degradation). 
Europe and its adjacent regions will probably face a possible discredit of the inter-
national principle concerning the respect of national sovereignty, the inviolability of 
frontiers as well as the disobeyance of traditional weapons control regime.
In these circumstances, Romania will seek to promote, protect and defend its national 
values and interests, by developing, through partnership, new military credible capa-
bilities, suitable to the needs to defend it internally and in the allied context, and by 
“promoting democracy, peace and stability in the close neighbourhood area and in 
other strategic interest regions”5.
The future engagement space will be multidimensional, dynamic and pulsating, 
multidirectional, automated and digitised, expanded, integrated and multinational, 
with modulated and demodulated military actions, with synchronised efforts and in 
5 Romanian Security Strategy, 2008.
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complete cooperation, quasi-transparent through the media information possibilities, 
through the visible actions.
It will be influenced by a series of probable and potential instability factors, such 
as the fight for power balance, rivalry, nationalism, religious disputes, demographic 
growth, proliferation and modernisation of weapon systems, as constitutive elements 
of a fully manifested phenomenon, being at the foundation of the possible threats 
to the national and global stability and security as well as the environmental risks 
caused by natural and man-made disasters.
The armed forces must be capable of conducting operations in complex enviro-
nments (urban, mountain, desert, arctic areas etc.), with high precision, not just 
against enemy military objectives, avoiding collateral damages and casualties among 
the civilian population as much as possible. That will determine the research, deve-
lopment, experimentation and use of new unconventional “vectors”, techniques, te-
chnologies and procedures.
The temporal and spatial expansion of the engagement environment, in order to ac-
complish the set objectives, will diversify the way joint operations will be executed 
at both strategic and operational level and will influence the horizontal integration 
of new branches and operational components. Therefore, the armed forces will have 
the task to destroy the enemy ability to react, by synchronising the direct and indirect 
actions in a joint manner, establishing a variety of targets, narrowing the gaps and 
designing in an efficient way the actions that are normally directed towards specific 
objectives.
Future military operations will be of high intensity, carried out simultaneously 
or successively, in an dynamic way, at the strategic, operational and tactical level, 
aiming at information supremacy, based on a fair distribution of risks, responsibiliti-
es, roles and costs, according to the configured situation, in connection with the esta-
blished objectives set by political decision-makers, the evolution trend of the force 
ratio between warring factions, the increase or decrease in the number of allies and 
supporters, including the measures taken by them, in accordance with the level of 
security at regional and global level. They will be characterised by:
 – complexity, diversity and multidimensionality;
 – integrated use of all instruments of power;
 – increased number of low intensity asymmetric conflicts (terrorism, deception,
psychological influence, insurgency and clashes in the border area);
 – increased involvement of non-states actors.
In accordance with the new strategic concept of ensuring security through dynamic 
engagement, the focus will be on making flexible and maintaining the consensus 
rule, ensuring the high readiness, deployment and sustainment of the forces in the 
theatres of operations and implementing a single chain of command and control at 
strategic distances from allied territory.
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At the same time, efforts will be made to minimise national caveats and apply an 
effective comprehensive approach, focused on the flexible combination of military 
capabilities specific to the unconventional, nuclear and anti-ballistic missile defence. 
There will be an image change of the way the forces will behave within the enga-
gement space, as well as an increase in the air, cyber and information operations in 
support of the desired end state of the conflict, concomitantly with the use of new 
components (imaginary, psychological, economic or of any other nature).
Concurrently, the expansion of the engagement space will trigger the setting up and 
training of some hard and soft capability packages, of specific procurement program-
mes and organisations, in order to be able to execute the whole spectrum of joint and 
multinational operations, in a specified multinational environment.
The place, role and use of the armed forces will firstly depend on future asym-
metric, traditional and disruptive threats that will influence the choice of the decisi-
on-maker, of the time and of the legitimate use of them, according to the situation 
on the ground. In the same context, future conflicts will require the engagement of 
unconventional forces at the highest level, in order to counter some low intensity, 
destabilising, manipulation and shock asymmetric threats and to accomplish the 
strategic effects by using certain capabilities at tactical level.
The change of the pre-emptive policy and of the unilateral way to act towards the in-
ternational legality and legitimacy, based on achieving consensus and on defending 
strategic interests, will require the establishment of some objective criteria regarding 
when, where and how the military forces will be used, under the auspices of the 
United Nations or of a Coalition of Will.
At the same time, the future competition for vital resources and areas of geostrategic 
importance, as well as for proactive engagement in preventing a crisis situation will 
require to maintain a permanent cooperation with the allies and coalition partners 
within the unified and integrated headquarters, an interagency synchronisation in 
specific domains (diplomatic, political, medical, educational, economic and deve-
lopment ones), with a proper allocation of financial resources, for a better regional 
direction of efforts, in accordance with the allied and national interests.
Therefore, the military forces will be also used in a complementary way, having a 
support role of those elements of power at the national level, in order to dominate the 
kinetic and non-kinetic spectrum of the conflict. The current conflicts have decisive-
ly changed the role and responsibilities of the armed forces, from the main fighting 
force into an active contributor to minimising the effects of natural disasters, to parti-
cipating stability, reconstruction and development process or to ensuring the security 
of non-military participants in theatres of operations or alongside other international 
organisations specialised in crisis management.
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The way the armed forces will be used and the need for rapid, joint and combined 
collective response will continue to have at the foundation the consensus, national 
caveats and a limited authority of the designated mission commander, until the 
“Transfer of Authority” is achieved, as well as the standardisation of the multinatio-
nal logistic support.
A clear definition and preparation of the authorities that will be responsible for the 
command and control of operations and for the Reach-Back capability will have a 
major impact, contributing to the success of the operations.
The ever-changing international environment will determine the armed forces to 
operate in complex environments and situations (urban, mountain, desert and polar 
areas). In this context, the complexity, physiognomy and scale of military actions, 
beside the diversity of the operational environment, will require the structural and 
actional reorganisation of forces, in order to ensure a joint, modular and flexible 
organisational structure, having professionalised forces, equipped with intelligent, 
highly capable means, able of providing timely and reliable information, decisive 
manoeuvre and high mobility.
The forces will have to have a high degree of availability, versatility, mobility and 
autonomy, interoperability, a high capacity of adaptation, readiness and information 
superiority, integrating potential and joint manoeuvre ability, in a modular structure, 
with multidimensional protection and sustainment with network-enabled capability.
The armed forces will have to have the ability to innovate during peacetime and to 
adapt themselves in times of war to the realities and opportunities of the asymmetric 
and hybrid engagement space, when the fear of war and friction will distort, hide and 
influence the perception over the reality of the engagement space.
The changes that will happen in all domains will determine the change of mentality 
(a new understanding of the concept of solidarity between allies, of equally sharing 
the tasks, roles and costs and the establishment of new forms of cooperation within 
the international community, based on the comprehensive approach), the finding of 
immediate military solutions as well as risky and costly preventive or long term 
engagements.
In the same context, the main challenges of the future war will be:
 – the disappearance of the classical framework of confrontation and use of the fluid,
digitised, dynamic and multidimensional engagement space;
 – the use of some “noble strategies” as an effect of the use of sophisticated and
efficient weapon systems, which will comprise artificial intelligence that will si-
gnificantly reduce the human lack of precision;
 – the promotion of a philosophy of dissimulating the aggressive actions in peaceful
ones, that are subtle and insignificant, of psychologically influencing and
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intoxicating the communication means, concurrently with the simultaneous enga-
gement in the whole confrontation space;
 – the priority use of non-lethal weapons to defeat the adversary and, in a limited 
manner, in critical situations, of the lethal ones against strategic objectives;
 – the deployment of strategic air and naval assets, mechanised and armoured forces 
in reserve components, at the same time with the setting up of a lethal active 
component, comprising small, rapidly deployable, high readiness, easy-to-engage 
force packages, which have capabilities able to counter the asymmetric and hybrid 
emerging threats.
The future national forces will have to accomplish the whole spectrum of operati-
ons (joint, multinational, inter-agencies, independent and inter-arms) and the whole 
range of missions, having the diversity of the comprising capabilities as a comple-
mentary and multiplier factor.
The use of the armed forces in the future will aim at the following priority trends:
1. Timely deterrence and effective strategic defence will require reorganising ope-
rational nuclear forces, declaring an interim operational missile defence capability 
and reaching an agreement with respect to the consultation process, the command 
and control, based on a revised deterrence posture plan that will provide a balance 
between the political and military instruments, between the conventional forces, the 
missile defence and the nuclear forces, the essential role being held by the Air Force.
Its future structure will be an unbalanced one, with capabilities distributed unequally 
for clearly identifying and countering possible threats. The following will be 
essential: multi-role capabilities, based on platforms having an increased adaptable, 
versatile and relevant survival capacity for a wide spectrum of missions, focusing on 
the new multi-role aircraft, reduction of the radar footprint, joint electronic warfare 
actions and development of highly capable, nano, plausible and precise unmanned 
air attack systems.
2. Ensuring information supremacy within the Network Centric Warfare will aim 
to coordinate in detail all the efforts of the instruments of power involved in ope-
rations, which is essential for the timely situational awareness of the decision-ma-
kers at strategic, operational and tactical level. Viable and robust, adaptable and 
flexible enough networks will be created, the main effort being made on the qualita-
tive aspect of the information provided, focused on the fusion and integration of the 
analytical activities with the operational ones, in order to allow the accomplishment, 
in a dynamic environment, of the whole spectrum of missions and of the punctual 
actions.
3. Rethinking the way to support civil authorities in order to provide the essential 
needs and to shape the engagement and security environment in support of the 
national interests will require the identification and drawing up of a horizontal 
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collaborative engagement model based on a partnership between the government, 
multinational corporations and the civil society, as well as on inter-sectorial partner-
ship with non-governmental and private-volunteer organisations/NGOs and PVOs, 
as an intervention solution when the reaction to a specific situation is slow and there 
are not enough capabilities.
The model will be based on (with specific properties, terminology, protocols and 
objectives) a common understanding of the place, role, responsibilities and objecti-
ves of everyone involved, on the adaptability and synergy in the common collabora-
tive action of different sectors of the society, in order to solve a complex situation.
The armed forces will act as an initiator and will establish potential partners, 
tactics, techniques and procedures required by cooperation, common interaction and 
operation, as well as a system of best practices based on trust and clear intellectual 
property rights, centred on the premise that no organisation will have the required 
capabilities and operational and support tools to simultaneously conduct multiple 
assignments and incident management, in order to create a symmetry of objectives, 
concepts and resources.
4. The support of stability and reconstruction processes, where the armed forces
will focus their efforts on supporting the economy and the creation of new jobs,
as precursors of stability and security (organising free elections, reconstructing the
critical infrastructure, providing humanitarian aid, law enforcement, reconstructing
social institutions and their related capital, implementing economic policies etc.).
Against this background, the pursued aims are to achieve the flexibility and avai-
lability of the instruments of national power required to increase the efficiency and 
economy of using the armed forces, inter-agency integration starting from the early 
planning stages, unity of command, development of expeditionary and non-military 
capabilities to meet the essential requirements of the population, enforcing law and 
order, creating conditions for social justice and ensuring the transition to the legiti-
macy and civil governance.
5. The cooperation in the field of security will take into consideration the role,
place and use of the military force against state and non-state actors, which will
require a new set of skills and measures of intervention in a complex, unstable and
extremely costly environment, a common understanding of how to provide assistan-
ce in stabilisation and reconstruction operations, based on a new interagency com-
munication, control, and cooperation strategy, on specific capabilities, as well as on
the use of the military in non-traditional roles, which would require a different kind
of training and operating.
Within these areas, the interagency cooperation will aim to: establish common goals 
(a permanent exchange of information, ensuring access to some military facilities, 
mutual trust and common understanding of threats); ensure an integrated planning 
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(tracking terrorists, protecting the infrastructure, ensuring energy security, creating 
“safe havens” for displaced persons and refugees etc.); support specific collaborative 
security operations by creating joint teams for economic cooperation in the field of 
governance and security at battalion, district and provincial level.
A possible model to be employed is based on Ali Laidi’s theory on the types of 
current security. In his vision, “economic security is the foundation, political security 
is the principle, military security is the guarantor, technological security is the key 
and cultural security will be the rescue”.
The ability to work together with the allies will also be aimed at, in order to be 
able to influence the global security environment, to create the ability to develop, 
through multilateralism, mechanisms of sharing the risks and responsibilities caused 
by the current complex challenges, in political, military, economic, environmen-
tal and human areas. Other sub-domains add to these – border security, individu-
al security documents, containers and energy infrastructure security, fight against 
piracy, drug trafficking, proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction/WMD and 
their vectors, pandemic diseases – in an attempt to rather complement, support and 
not duplicate the efforts of the international community, complementary to the col-
laborative cooperation.
6. The national measures and the strategies of all international organisations having
responsibilities in crisis management should be carefully reviewed and coordina-
ted, so that strategic information-sharing could be conducted in real-time, aiming
mainly at transforming the command, control and force structures, which are
essential in ensuring the effective crisis management, including in specific areas,
such as: transport and border security, identity integrity, prevention of chemical, bi-
ological, radiological, and nuclear/CBRN terrorism etc.
7. The training to conduct counterinsurgency operations will require: a change
of mentality and “modus operandi” in a dangerous environment, establishing and
ensuring security while providing humanitarian assistance and essential elements
needed for the population, promoting effective governance and supporting economic
development, supporting reconciliation and social change, creating specific capabili-
ties for special forces and law enforcement and employing women military personnel
in permissive and non-permissive environments, in support of tactical operations.
8. In the area of resource security and mitigation of climate change effects, the
armed forces will have to understand the vulnerabilities of human communities
caused by hydro-meteorological risks, through developing interdisciplinary studies,
as well as drafting patterns of evolution and prediction of such a kind of risks. It will
also be necessary to adjust the structure of military organisations and to develop
flexible mechanisms to design and sustain the armed forces, adapted to the new
asymmetric threats, able to operate effectively, regardless of the climate and ge-
ophysical conditions in the theatres of operations.
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It will be necessary to ensure the training in conducting specific operations related 
to: eco-terrorism, providing vital resources for the population, consequence manage-
ment of extreme-weather, pandemic and natural disasters. Under these circumstan-
ces, on short term, it will be necessary to:
 – prepare studies and forecasts in order to foresee the effects of climate change
within the most vulnerable areas;
 – adopt a comprehensive training programme for the military personnel, to prepare
them on how to limit the effects of extreme events (earthquakes, flooding,
mudslides, tornadoes, drought etc.);
 – gain the support of local communities, to participate in the elimination of the
effects of extreme events, in the relief and reconstruction efforts (through the
presence of political factors in the affected areas, as soon as the initial phase of
operations);
 – procure compatible technical equipment, needed for interventions in the event
of natural disasters, change TOEs by introducing specific equipment for extreme
climatic conditions; and procure transport and intervention equipment to be used
in extreme weather conditions.
9. In the area of doctrine and training, it will be necessary to review the principles,
doctrinal provisions, force training modalities, tactics, techniques and procedures
required to move from force projection to the accomplishment of the full spectrum
of missions, focusing on three main areas: the development of knowledge databases
and information gathering methods, creation of necessary combat structures and pro-
curement of required equipment (digitising the force and the engagement space, with
an emphasis on computer communications, horizontal integration of technologies,
virtual and constructive simulation, global positioning systems, real-time situational
awareness, lethality and survival capability) and the increase in the fighting forces’ 
operational tempo.
Education and training will remain key elements to prepare an educated and trained 
fighter, able to operate in a tactical environment, where military actions spectacu-
larly transitioned from surface to point, from massive to agile, from conventional 
actions to asymmetric actions, including clean cyber and IT-based actions. The stan-
dardisation will relate to interoperability, interchangeability, compatibility and com-
monality of training.
The future training process requires the forces to prepare and carry out joint military 
exercises, which are to include components related to humanitarian assistance, 
medical and veterinary care, community projects, building of schools, transport, 
water supply and health systems and the formation of joint inter-agency teams to 
model the space of engagement.
Another very important area is to enhance the cultural and language awareness, by 
aiming at building cultural and language capabilities (related to social and societal 
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structure, national interests, culture, language, structures of power and authority, 
history, behaviour etc.).
At lower levels, the military training should be focused on: the study of specific 
regions and countries, international relations, sociology, public policy and admini-
stration, geography, comparative religions, traditions, language training, socio-cul-
tural education, tactics, techniques and procedures of the counterinsurgency theory, 
non-military components and uncommon foreign languages. Last but not least, the 
interagency training on intelligence, human resources, security and management 
will need to be conducted.
10. In the field of technology development and cyber attacks, in a future war, the 
stress will be laid on destroying and disrupting the opponent’s computer networks 
and automated communication systems, before the start of the attack, by using very 
dangerous and powerful logical bombs and computer viruses, able to harm the 
software. The fighting weapon systems of the future war will include a new type 
of fighter, called the Land Warrior, which is going to represent more than just a 
weapon system, by being also a complex system of intelligence. The future battlefi-
eld requires a new phrase – the Holography of the Cyber War, which would reveal 
its informational and energy links and is a better concept to describe the require-
ments for cyber-structure and dynamism. The essential purpose of the use of smart 
weapons will be to effect the human actions, without directly placing the human 
being in the area of impact.
The capabilities of the future and the military actions are going to be influenced by 
a variety of factors whose effects will often be decisive. Accordingly, the future basic 
directions for capability development will have to comprise:
 – an orientation towards expeditionary missions;
 – the reduction of the personnel;
 – the investments in key areas (transport and communications, space capabilities, 
intelligence and reconnaissance);
 – the pooling of resources and equipments, opening defence markets and encoura-
ging competition.
There will be a need for forces able to carry out multiple missions, equipped with 
multiple-role systems, able to be structured in units, flexible enough to be reconfigu-
red in accordance with different purposes and missions, and there will be a need for 
integrating military forces with other instruments of power in order to achieve the 
desired end state.
Some other trends are concerning the building of:
 – capabilities for defence, counter information/intelligence operations and cyber 
attacks of a potential adversary;
 – combined capabilities: for strategic deterrence, counter-terrorism and counter-
-proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction/WMD threats;
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 – effective capabilities in employing the military instrument of power with a reduced
cost of military intervention, use of modern technologies in countering asymme-
tric threats and strategies, employed by groups which will be difficult to identify
and separate (combatant and non-combatant forces), in particular in urban areas,
strategic engagement of terrorist or other groups which would not comply with the
principles of the law of armed conflict;
 – capabilities shared with coalition partners and allies;
 – credible pre-emptive and defensive capabilities, including the development of a
strategy to maximise the joint efforts of the agencies and institutions, that are
to counter violent political movements, terrorist networks, or organised crime
attempts to obtain the technology required for the production and use of Weapons
of Mass Destruction/WMD;
 – capabilities required for quick deployment of civilian and military expert teams to
identify and counteract urgent needs, which emerge in the initial phase of a crisis;
 – capabilities enhancing the ability to determine the requirements for intervention in
case of predicted disasters (by joint teams of liaison officers and civilian experts),
thus creating a capacity for monitoring the needs for assistance, the negotiating
terms, the determination of objective conditions, useful in setting the criteria for
the transition from military to civilian control of operations;
 – the harmonisation of strategies, short-term political objectives and procurement
procedures with the long-term contracts that provide forces’ equipment.
To conclude, the future operations are going to be conducted in a instable security 
environment and will determine a change of mentality regarding the place, role and 
use of the armed forces in creating an effective mechanism of joint coordination 
between different instruments of power, such as diplomatic, economic, informati-
onal or of reconstruction and development ones, in order to achieve the goals at all 
levels.
The near future will determine a change of the force missions, of the way to tackle 
international conflicts and to conduct military operations. The new force structures 
will have to be modern, flexible, professionalised, properly equipped, deployable, 
interoperable, self-sustainable and multidimensionally protected, able to meet both 
the current operational needs and the future political requirements and commitments.
The development of a common global network for data and information exchange 
will definitely be necessary, to also include the other organisations involved in the 
field of defence and security, the construction of a new security environment, the 
shaping of an innovative thinking at political and military leaders’ levels and within 
the military forces, as well as the review of doctrinal principles in order to minimise 
the use of military forces and the integration of the other partners and agencies in the 
common effort to manage the future spectrum of missions and conflicts.
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