abstract: This present issue of Connections.The Quarterly Journal looks into a number of issues: professional military education and its role in deepening defense capabilities with a special focus on the South Caucasus, the defense cooperation of the South Caucasus nations with both Russia and NATO which, according to some commentators, may result in a new form of a 'Great Game' rivalry between the cooperation partners, the specific 'military school culture' of the Dr. Franjo Tudjman Defense Academy of Cr
journal: Connections The Quarterly Journal