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Warfare in the Old Testament
Tancmanová, Soňa ; Beneš, Jiří (advisor) ; Melmuk, Petr (referee)
The core tasks of the diploma thesis were to familiarize the reader with the biblical themes as biblical wars from historical and cultural perspective, clarify the issue of the divine struggles and embedding in cultural and ethical context. Good News of the Bible was confronted with non biblical written sources, mostly written records of Moabities, Assyrians, Egyptians, Sumerians and people of Ugarit. The diploma thesis was focused primarily on the period of the Kingdom of Israel. Also were discussed the battles of Israelis before entering the Land of Canaan and the split the Kingdom of Israel. Primarily it has been worked with the Deuteronomy corpus that is characteristic by its synchronic and diachronic approach. The reader was made familiar with the issue of divine wars and the extermination of cursed cities. The herald function of Deuteronomy corpus and the possible nonrealistic information sources were also clarified. The author is inclined to the opinion Sa-Moon Kang and consideres holy wars to the end of the Kingdom period. With the emergence of secular government and deviation from the Lord for rulers was the priority to resolve property disputes. The only exception between wars of power was the assistance of the prophet Elisha which suddenly turned the fight into Godʼs battle. The elements...
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Maginot line and its construction in political and military context
Formánek, Ivo ; Horčička, Václav (advisor) ; Tumis, Stanislav (referee)
Maginot line is one of the essential issues of military history between two world wars. This graduation thesis situates this phenomenon in wider political and military context. The period of interest is between the First and the Second world war, but for explanation of full coherence, sometimes it was necessary abandon this frame. The main object of interest is not the history of Maginot line itself, but everything that shaped the points of view of generals and politicians about its construction. The answered questions are, why did they start to build this bulwark, what were they waiting for and what advantages and disadvantages they assigned to this line. The negativ opinions of political left were also analysed, just as the french interwar fortification school. There is an attention on reflections of Maginot line in civil and military periodicals that together with analysis of opinions of important political and civil persons enabled to answer the question, whether it is possible to speak about myth of Maginot line. This graduation thesis shows clearly that it is very difficult to think so, because construction of Maginot line didn not influence the life in France so much and it wasn not the cause of fallacious imaginations either.
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The military unmanned aerial vehicles as an instrument of American foreign policy in the fight against terrorism
Frumar, Josef ; Matějka, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Dubský, Zbyněk (referee)
This diploma thesis deals with the use of military unmanned aerial vehicles as a instrument of American foreign policy in the fight against terrorism. It covers their potential impact on terrorist organizations, for instance their change in behavior and warfare. It addresses the efficiency of unmanned aerial vehicles as a warfare from various perspectives, for instance in terms of number of civilian casualties or killed senior terrorist leaders. It also compares the military unmanned aerial vehicles with other alternatives of fight against terrorism and analyzes their use from strategic and tactical point of view. The last chapter indicates the potential scenarios resulting from their use for the United States, international system and security and for world itself.
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