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EDITORIAL
Liliana Brožič
This year’s third issue of Contemporary Military Challenges is entirely published in 
English, which is in line with the Editorial Board’s work programme and standards 
for scientific and professional publications in the Republic of Slovenia as well as 
widely abroad.
The present issue is dedicated to hybrid threats. The definition of hybrid threats and 
its development is explained by Jan Spišák in his article on hybrid threats and the 
development of NATO’s new Overarching Concept in which he explains the under-
standing of hybrid threats within the Alliance and the ways of responding to them.
Hybrid threats also include the so-called cyber threats, which are becoming increa-
singly well though out, organised and causing more and more damage to the states, 
companies, infrastructure and logistics in a security and financial sense.
Current cyber space trends in the WEB 2.0. age have been dealt with by Uroš 
Svete and Anja Kolak who put emphasis on the WikiLeaks case, highlighting the 
development of the second generation of World Wide Web, which can be directly 
modified by the users themselves, thereby threatening national security of individual 
states or the Alliance.
The importance and organisation of cyber security in relation to critical infrastruc-
ture is discussed by Denis Čaleta and Gorazd Rolih. They present the way this 
domain is regulated within the European Union, NATO and at the national level, as 
well as evoke certain deficiencies which are still to be dealt with.
Information security and its importance to the public administration are presented 
by Maja Bolle using the example of open-source and proprietary software. She 
acquaints us with their history and the way of functioning as well as the advantages 
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and disadvantages of opting for one of them. Of course, choosing either of them 
brings about numerous challenges, also discussed by the author.
Anže Rode, Kristian Beršnak and Bojan Langerholc present the Slovenian Armed 
Forces Special Operations Unit and its role within a wide national and transnational 
security context, putting emphasis on the potential crisis operations and possible co-
unter-terrorism activities.
Zoltán Jobbágy and László Szegő have prepared a critical view of a generally well-
-accepted theory by Karl von Clausewitz. It has been tested with regard to the latest
establishments based on the cases of Iraq and Afghanistan, while the authors also
provided their personal reflections.
Original versions of the articles by Slovenian authors, which have been initially 
written in Slovene and later translated into English, are available in electronic 
version on the web page of Contemporary Military Challenges in a special appendix 
at the end of the publication.
This is our way of trying to reach out to a wide range of readers and potential future 
writers while respecting rational use of resources and quality indicators applicable to 
scientific and professional publications. 
All our readers are kindly invited to write articles for our publication!
Liliana Brožič