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MERJENJE STALIŠ» PRIPADNIKOV OBOROŽENIH SIL GLEDE ZOPERSTAVLJANJA ...where SAF members currently operate, various terrorist attacks take placeevery day. This has had a significant influence on the position of SAF memberson the importance of terrorism as a source of threat to their safety in crisisresponse operations and terrorism as a general threat.6055,3504030201041,8522,355,0536,844,6517,7515,139,956,3 5,3537,25General public opinionSAF members’ option(threat to Republic ofSloveniaMembers’ opinion,threat to the SAF inoperations0No threatat allSmallthreatMediumthreatStrongthreatDiagram 4 - Perceiving terrorism as a threatThe armed forces can conduct their activities in fighting terrorism throughthe use of both preventive and authoritarian measures. To ensure that thesemeasures are conducted efficiently, it is important to monitor the position ofarmed forces members and their views on the performance and effectivenessof measures in fighting terrorism. The public has always perceived thearmed forces as an authoritarian body, conducting specific tasks which arenot characteristic of other bodies in the national security system but assignedto the armed forces because of their missions and capabilities. Eliminatingterrorism is undoubtedly a complex process, one which can only be successfulif it is tackled by using various measures which focus on eliminating thecauses of its creation. Due to this fact, the armed forces have recently beenperforming more and more tasks in the area of preventive measures to preventthe creation of conditions for the occurrence of terrorism. SAF members148