The article seeks to explore how the Republic of Slovenia can achieve security and defence resilience in the event of an imminent threat of war or during wartime. It briefly outlines the legal basis for police operations, from the 1980 Act on Internal Affairs to the currently valid Act on the Organisation and Work in the Police. Special emphasis is placed on the importance of drawing lessons from the War of Independence, during which the Slovenian Militia played a crucial role. Therefore, in addition to defence security—primarily ensured by the Slovenian Armed Forces—the article calls for identifying other key actors responsible for internal security today, ranging from the police to civil self-protection mechanisms.
Vol. 6 No. 3, 2025: Kako dosegati varnostno obrambno odpornost Slovenije za primer neposredne vojne nevarnosti ali vojne (Čas) [SLO]
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- Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tomaž Čas, LL.B., Master of Legal Sciences, PhD in Defence Studies, Associate Professor of the Security System, lecturer at the European Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Government and European Studies, the Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, and Čas – Private School for Security Education. Formerly, he served as State Secretary at the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Slovenia, Assistant Commander of the Slovenian Militia, Dean of the College and Higher School for Internal Affairs, and is currently serving his third term as President of the Association of Police Veterans’ Societies Sever.
* Views and opinions of the authors of this paper do not necessarily correspond to the views of the Euro-Atlantic Council of Slovenia.