On the hierarchy of strategic documents

Abstract

The paper discusses the problem of further strategic development of the Republic of Serbia on the basis of hierarchically ordered system of strategic documents. This paper is a result of years of study of strategy as a science under development, theory, skills, and documents, with special emphasis on the results of the comparative analysis of national and foreign strategic documents. Looking at the experiences of about a dozen countries in the world and comparing them with the current practice in the Republic of Serbia, this paper emphasizes the importance of logical consistency, mutual interdependence and hierarchical arrangement of the system of the nation's strategic development. Proceeding from an analysis of the current situation in the Republic of Serbia, it points to the inconsistency of the fact that the strategy of sustainable development is being nationally prepared, adopted and implemented, without including the sustainable development in the field of security. In addition, the paper deliberately encourages further discussion of strategists, security experts, officials of the Ministry of Defense, members of the Serbian Armed Forces, and public officials about the necessity that, after the adoption of the national strategy, the national development strategy, the national security strategy and the defense strategy, the development of military strategy should be also addressed in the Republic of Serbia to complete the hierarchical series of the strategic documents.

Keywords

• strategy
• nation
• security
• the military
• hierarchy
• document