9 Bilten Slovenske vojske 
WITH	A	NEW	VISION
Branimir Furlan
The Slovenian Armed Forces have gone through very dynamic times during the last 
eighteen years. Today they are very close to a modern professional military organi-
zation, comparable to and interoperable with other armed forces within the alliance. 
The military expertise, supported by domestic and foreign military educational insti-
tutions, has developed in parallel with successful professionalization, modernization 
and transformation processes. The Slovenian Armed Forces Bulletin is, besides the 
results achieved by the Doctrine, Development, Education and Training Command 
units, one of the direct indicators of the development of military expertise. In the past 
year the Bulletin has made considerable progress in terms of quality and has, thanks 
to the previous Editorial Board, qualified into the third quality category according to 
standards made by Ljubljana and Maribor universities. 
The new Editorial Board intends to continue the work of their predecessors and 
further improve the quality of the Bulletin; therefore, it has developed a new vision 
and strategy. Some will find them ambitious; however, we see them as a tool to 
support the development of military intellect. Our vision is to raise the quality level 
of the Bulletin and achieve greater recognisability of articles in order to turn the 
Bulletin into a scientific publication which could make even greater contribution 
to the development of military science in the Republic of Slovenia. Our intent is 
supported also by members of the Editorial Council which includes Slovenian and 
foreign experts in the military and security area, and previous chiefs of the General 
Staff of the Slovenian Armed Forces. 
The strategy for the implementation of the vision includes the encouragement of 
Slovenian and foreign authors who can, through their knowledge and experience, 
contribute to the development of knowledge and the exchange of best practices in 
the security and military area, the pursuit of quality and the increase in the number 
of articles in order to gradually create conditions for the transfer into a higher 
category, increase the recognisability of the Bulletin and enhance the cooperation 
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and exchange of articles with various foreign institutions. The qualifi-
cation of the publication into a higher category implies also a change of 
the name which will reflect a modern publication in the area of national 
security.
We believe that the forthcoming 20th anniversary of defence forces of 
the independent Slovenian state will represent one of the reasons to 
confirm knowledge and ability of individuals and organizations and 
express critical scientific or expert opinions on the development and 
future of the Slovenian Armed Forces, as well as on current defence 
and security issues at home and abroad. May we become comparable to 
armed forces with longer tradition also in the area of military intellect!
Branimir Furlan