119) The centre of gravity of the improvement of defence management in
war-time will focus on enhancing the ability of respective state administrative
bodies to organise defence by systemically increasing and effectively utilising
defence capacities, together with utilising planned collective capacities and
capabilities to resist armed attack. Measures of national defence management
in war-time will be drafted in detail by the MoD in appropriate plans.
120) In order to improve our national defence management, measures will
be taken to deepen the functional harmonisation and synchronisation
of our national crisis response system with the NATO Crisis Response
System, including the improvement of the technical infrastructure used
for transmitting classified information. Processes of preparing and making
decisions by constitutional bodies concerning the transit and the presence
of allied forces on the territory of the Slovak Republic and also processes
concerning the sending of the AF SR abroad will be analysed in the context
of both the changed security environment and the decision-making processes
of international organisations of which Slovakia is a member, and if necessary,
proposals improving these processes will be drafted.
121) Key measures for improving national defence management will be
provided for as part of a comprehensive improvement of the system of
national defence within the system of national security. This will facilitate
a coordinated and effective functioning of public authority bodies in the
process of governing the state in all crisis situations (both military and nonmilitary).
122) Basic measures to improve the system of national defence will be defined
by the new Defence Strategy of the Slovak Republic stemming from the
Security Strategy of the Slovak Republic. Comprehensive measures to improve
the system of national defence will be elaborated in the System of National
Defence Development Concept. Tying into the conceptual framework, the
improvement of the legal framework of national defence will continue.
123) Evaluation will also be part of improving our national defence
management. It will be focused on achieving set aims while effectively
utilising resources. Whether long-term aims and plans are being met will
be reviewed by the Strategic Defence Review Process initiated whenever
a fundamental change takes place in the political, security and resource
conditions of national defence, or whenever required. Its basic output is the
White Paper on Defence of the Slovak Republic. Whether aims and tasks are
being achieved will be continuously evaluated by the annual comprehensive
assessment of the defence of the Slovak Republic.
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