title: Editorial: Transformation of the Armed Forces
abstract: After the end of the Cold War, when the Warsaw Pact was abolished and consequently the Soviet Union collapsed, the Atlantic Alliance lost its main adversary.As a result, European countries in particular started to cut their defence budgets, which affected the size, weapons and capabilities of their armed forces.It was not until the terrorist attacks on the U.S. on 11 September 2011 and the (US-led) global war on terror that the trend of military capability cuts slightly changed.However, strategi
journal: CONTEMPORARY MILITARY CHALLENGES