Romanian Military Thinking

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thinking has the French and the German
school as a role model.
After WWI, military thinkers have
intensified the study of geographical and
military issues and, right after WWII, as a
consequence of the armed fight amplitude,
new concepts related to the “great military
geography” have appeared, which together
with geopolitics have become a new branch,
called geostrategy.
Consequently, the knowledge about
the influence geographic space has on
military actions and warfare is grouped in
three branches: geopolitics, geostrategy
and military geography, with the same
subject – the geographic space analysed
from different perspectives.
Geopolitics studies the geographic
space, particularly from the perspective
of its influence on politics, in general, and
on military politics, in particular.
Geostrategy analyses the influence
of the geographic space on preparing
and conducting warfare, therefore the
strategic level.
Military geography studies the influence
of the geographic space on the military
action at the tactical, operational and/or
strategic level.
Therefore, the three sciences interfere
and have issues in common, as well as
specific domains, and they are connected
to each other.
Geopolitics is meant for the political
and the politico-military level, geostrategy
for the politico-military and military level,
military geography for the operational
military level and the knowledge of the
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three sciences is complementary and
forms a system of knowledge.
We have also analysed the knowledge
belonging to the military domain, which
is linked to the battlefield determinations
on human psychology. This science is
military psychology, a border discipline
between military and psychological
sciences.
The objective of this science is to
determine the best psychological profile
for different military armed fight forms
and procedures and for each arm (military
specialisation) in turn, to counterattack
psychological aggressions and establish
efficient ways to strike the enemy
psychology.
The analysis of the knowledge proper
to this science has led us to the conclusion
that military psychology is a border science.
The main argument to support this idea is
that knowledge is mostly psychological
even if its goal is to strike the enemy and
self-protect against the enemy attacks.
“Therefore, military psychology analyses
fighters’ psychology from the perspective
of modern battlefield and provides solutions
to neutralize the enemy will and maintain
the psychological ability within the parameters
required by the effective military action. This
science uses general military science
to establish optimum psychological models
and profiles, as well as procedures of
psychological action and aggression in the
armed combat” 30 .
Military technical sciences are part
of a large domain of military science
called logistics, whose aim is the procurement
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