Deividas Šlekys

• PhD in Political Science
• Professor (Associate) at Vilnius University

Sponsored by the National Defense University (NDU) and the Swedish National Defense University, this paper is the third in a series of Institute for National Strategic Studies Strategic Forums dedicated to the multinational exploration of the strategic defense challenges faced by the Baltic states. It starts by defining comprehensive defense, then...

Civil-military relations in Lithuania have serious deficiencies, which have appeared because of the emulation of a recommended Western model of civilian control. After regaining Independence, Lithuania had the difficult task of creating its armed forces and system of national defence following the Western model. At the same time we had to implement...

Since regaining independence in 1990 and creating its regular armed forces, Lithuania has had to do a balancing act. It has had to balance between different approaches of state defence, military structure, collective and national defence. Due to events in Ukraine Lithuania had to reconfigure this balance. The Russian threat forced to emphasize stra...

The dissertation seeks to modify, update and bring back the tradition of political theory which based its understanding of political in the state and the society mainly on the perspective of the military dimension. The dissertation argues this forgetfulness creates serious obstacles when trying to understand contemporary military changes and their...

For the last fifty years the idea of military revolution, (MR) introduced by Michael Roberts, was one of the main concepts in the field of military history. According to him, the tactical changes introduced by Dutch and Swedish commanders at the beginning of the 17th century led to revolutionary changes in the social and political spheres. Roberts’...