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Crisis Management

Crisis Management

Data is displayed for the academic year: 2025./2026.

Exercises

Lectures

Course Description

Through the systematization of existing and the acquisition of new knowledge about crises to understand and be able to analyze the basic concepts and principles of crisis management, the place and role of state institutions and armed forces in crises, natural and technical disasters in Croatia and abroad. Be able to explain the components, links and basic concepts applied in the cycle: threat assessment - development of crisis management plans - implementation of the defense planning process in the Republic of Croatia and NATO.

Study Programmes

graduate
Military Leadership and Management - study
(1. semester)

Learning Outcomes

  1. Assess the effectiveness and need for pooling forces within tactical level operations
  2. Explain the basic processes and organization of crisis management in the Republic of Croatia, NATO, EU and UN and some countries
  3. Assess the roles, responsibilities and linkages of the fundamental elements of national power and the use of the military element of power in crises
  4. Analyze the use of military capabilities in response to crises at the national level and in the international environment
  5. Explain the basic components of the process: threat assessment - development of plans - the process of defense planning in the Republic of Croatia and NATO
  6. Plan and implement the use of a platoon-level military unit in crisis response operations in the Republic of Croatia and abroad

Forms of Teaching

Lectures

Lectures using standard presentation methods - Power point

Exercises

Implementation of the exercise of planning and use of military unit level platoon in crisis response operations in the Republic of Croatia and abroad

Partial e-learning

As part of the teaching process, up to 20% of courses will be conducted with the help of the e-learning system - MERLIN

Week by Week Schedule

  1. Introduction to the subject, contemporary and traditional threats, crises - conceptual definition of crisis, terminology
  2. Crisis management process and activities, principles of crisis management
  3. Strategy - "Ends - Ways - Means", Boyd "OODA" loop
  4. Crisis management measures, elements of power, areas of action - a comprehensive approach (PMESII)
  5. Components of the crisis management system in the Republic of Croatia, threat and risk assessment for the Republic of Croatia
  6. Methodology of drafting the defense plan of the Republic of Croatia, basics of defense planning in the Republic of Croatia
  7. Colloquium
  8. Crisis management in foreign countries
  9. IO and NGOs in crises
  10. Crisis management - NATO
  11. Crisis management - EU
  12. Crisis Management - UN
  13. Crisis management and military capabilities
  14. Components of the process: threat assessment - development of plans - the process of defense planning in the Republic of Croatia and NATO
  15. Colloquium

Literature

(2005.), AJP-3.4, Allied Joint Doctrine for Non-Article 5 Crisis Response Operations, NATO, 2005, NATO
(2006.), AJP 3.4.1 Operacije potpore miru, Zagreb,, MORH

For students

General

ID 282199
  Winter semester
3.0 ECTS
L0 English Level
L1 e-Learning
30 Lectures
15 Exercises