Defence strategies of the smaller NATO states – a comparative study Obranné strategie malých států NATO – komparativní studie

4/2020 Defence strategies of the smaller NATO states INTRODUCTION The re-emergence of the use of military power in the Eastern Europe after annexation of Crimea has again created a dilemma of making choices within defence policy of small states. [...] It is analysing the content and format of the defence strategy papers of the selected countries in the following research questions: 1. [...] 4/2020 Defence strategies of the smaller NATO states Next categories indicate the differences between Baltic states and the rest of the group. [...] Regardless of the development of cyber defence domain, the majority of the project are conventional. [...] It appears, that the majority of the countries (7 of them) will be maintaining the same level of the size of their force.