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The Role of the Roman Army in the Political Instability in the West in the 5th century CE
SEKANINOVÁ, Markéta
This thesis follows a period between 395 - 476 AD and aims to refer to the connection of political stability and the state of the Roman army in the very last century of the Western Roman Empire's existence. This will be done by research of individual usurpers in the 5th century because most of them come from the Roman army. The thesis will further analyse the connection of said stability with migrations of Germanic tribes and their brunt on the West through the barbarization of the Roman army. A question of why the political development in the East was more stable and why the Western Roman Empire perished in the process of the 5th century will also be examined.
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Endurance skills and their testing in the military environment: a systematic review
Matoušek, Ondřej ; Maleček, Jan (advisor) ; Vágner, Michal (referee)
Title: Endurance skills and their testing in a military: a systematic review Aim: This thesis aims to create an overview of the frequency of tests used to test long-term, total and dynamic endurance in military personnel based on a systematic search of scientific publications. Methods: A systematic search method was used to create this bachelor thesis, based on a referred selection of items according to PRISMA recommendations. After defining the research question and objectives of the thesis, a search script was constructed through predefined keywords in the bibliographic and citation databases Web of Science, Scopus and PubMed. Studies that met the predefined criteria were used for data processing and subsequent synthesis. Lastly, studies underwent a methodological quality assessment. Results: The most commonly used test evaluated was the 3.2 km run, which included 44 of the 131 studies included in this systematic review. This is primarily due to the numerous representation of studies from the USA and their Army APFT test. The next most frequently used test evaluated was loaded marching, which may have a more significant transfer to the military context. The most common distance was also 3.2 km, found in 19 of 131 sources, with a relatively diverse range of loads (15 - 44.7 kg), with the most...
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Motor control testing and coordination and speed abilities
Kohout, Tomáš ; Přívětivý, Lubomír (advisor) ; Sovák, Libor (referee)
Title: Testing speed and coordination skills in the military environment: a systematic review Objective: Based on a literature search, find out which tests of speed and coordination skills are used in foreign armies. Methods: The presented work is done in the form of a systematic review. Web of Science, Scopus and PubMed databases were selected for searching articles. The search was performed using two search scripts, the first focused on speed and the second on coordination skills. 439 and 297 studies were retrieved from the search scripts and unsystematic searches. These studies were subsequently screened and removed according to the systematic search procedure. After final removal, 33 studies remained for speed and 23 for coordination. Results: The highest representation was found in tests focused on a combination of speed and coordination skills, especially agility tests. Of these, the most used tests are the Illinois Agility Test, the Pro-Agility Test, the 3x5 m shuttle run and the 15 m slalom. The second most represented group is the speed tests, which focus on sprints over various distances. There are 8 different tests in total, with the 20, 30 and 15 m sprints being the most represented. The fewest tests focused on coordination skills. Keywords: army, military, soldiers, cadets, recruits,...
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Roman forts and fortresses in the Nile valley
Šurinová, Miroslava ; Musil, Jiří (advisor) ; Titz, Pavel (referee)
This paper deals with roman fortifications in the Nile valley from the mouth of Delta to site of Qasr Ibrim located between first and second cataract. Period described in this paper can be limit by two dates. Beginning lay in the year 30BC, when Egypt became a roman province. The end of this period is year AD 641, when the city of Alexandria capitulated to Arab conquerors. The paper focuses on the architecture of forts and archaeological excavations.
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The Israeli Druze: Military Service as a Tool to Influence Domestic and Foreign Policy
Odlová, Markéta ; Kučera, Tomáš (advisor) ; Záhora, Jakub (referee)
Master thesis entitled "The Israeli Druze: Military Service as a Tool to Influence Domestic and Foreign Policy" regards the relations of the Israeli Druze Community and the State of Israel. Druze people live also in Lebanon and Syria and are usually categorized as an ethno-religious and transnational group. They are distinctive for their secretive and esoteric religion and tightly-knit social bonds. The Israeli Druze community (composing less than 2 % of the Israeli population) is specific for its mandatory service in the Israeli Defense Forces, which marks a difference from other Arabic speaking citizens of Israel. The service in the Israeli army implies that the Israeli Druze people are loyal both to the state and the transnational Druze community. Using the framework of a theoretical concept of Strategic Military Refusal by Udi Lebel, the goal of the thesis is to examine whether the Israeli Druze community was able to influence domestic and foreign policy of the State of Israel in order to reach its own political goals, whether these efforts were intentional, strategic and successful. Alongside, it is also identified which factors may influence the loyalty of the Israeli Druzes towards the State of Israel. To achieve this goal, two cases are analyzed: 1) the reaction of the Israeli Druze...
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Political determinants and development of Israel's military strategy
Teissigová, Andrea ; Perottino, Michel (advisor) ; Bahenský, Vojtěch (referee)
Tato bakalářská práce sleduje vliv politické scény Izraele na vývoj izraelské strategie v průběhu historie a konfliktů, kterými si stát Izrael doposud prošel. Nejprve se práce zabývá strategií obecně, definicí války, strategií Izraele a charakteristikou politiky v Izraeli. Dále vznikem Izraele, konflikty a rozebírá vlády Izraele v průběhu konfliktů. Práce je psaná formou případové studie, kdy se na příkladech války o Nezávislost v roce 1948, spoluprací s Francií a Velkou Británií v průběhu Suezské krize, ohromující Šestidenní válce, nečekané Jom Kippurské válce, ale také na válce s Libanonem, která byla odlišná způsobem jednání izraelské vlády a následného postupu izraelských ozbrojených sil, ukáže, jak izraelské vlády vyvíjely svoji strategii vůči nepřátelům a jak byly války vedeny. Vzhledem ke skutečnostem, že vedení válek záleží částečně i na druhu vlády - v případě Izraele levice/pravice, práce rozebere posty premiérů Izraele v době válek a jejich politickou příslušnost a pokusí se dokázat rozdíly mezi levicí a pravicí ve způsobu vedení války. A také nekončící problémy s Hamásem a pásmem Gazy na jihu Izraele. Spojením poznatků z teoretické a analytické části práce zanalyzujeme strategii Izraele, a zda na její vývoj mají vliv vládnoucí strany, pravice nebo levice.
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Allocated forces and means of the armed forces in favor of the integrated rescue system
Eliášová, Kamila ; Fiala, Miloš (advisor) ; Vilášek, Josef (referee)
Title: Allocated forces and means of the armed forces within the Integrated rescue system Objectives: This dissertation aims to describe the duties of Czech armed forces within the Integrated rescue system in case of emergencies on our land. Method: When writing this work, the method of analysis and description of selected literature and electronic sources were used. Results: The research has revealed the main advantages and disadvantages of the deployment of dedicated forces and resources of the army of the Czech Republic in favour of the integrated rescue system Keywords: forces, sources, army, help, guard
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Military training areas as anthropogenic biodiversity refuges
Bušek, Ondřej ; Reif, Jiří (advisor) ; Marhoul, Pavel (referee)
Military training areas are used by armed forces as training territories. These areas are exposed to intensive anthropogenic disturbances. It may seem paradoxical that a number of studies had shown that on those particular areas is often present remarkably high biodiversity and numerous species of conservation concern. In this respect, military training areas are more valuable than most parts of surrounding landscape and thus form true biodiversity refuges. Particularly important are those areas for open habitats species. There are two main causes of uniqueness of military training areas. First, they are closed for any human activities not connected to military training. Because of this, these areas were not exposed to negative influences such as agricultural intensification or urbanization. Second, military activities create very heterogeneous habitat mosaic. This allows coexistence of many species with different ecological requirements. However, biota of military training areas is currently endangered due to abandonment by armed forces caused by downsizing national troops. The end of unique disturbance regime caused by military training leads to gradual homogenization of landscape mosaic and therefore to population decline of habitat specialists. Subsequent commercial development of these areas is another...
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