Introduction: "When we started working on the issue entitled “The Total Defence 21st century.
COM – building a resilient society”, we did not know then how topical this issue
would become. We were aware of its importance, especially since 2014, which was
the beginning of the Russian aggression against Ukraine. However, we did not
think that the need to build an effective concept of total/comprehensive defence,
and then its implementation, would become so pressing in February 2022.
Two of the three general regularities in the history of international relations
have also become extremely topical. We are talking about the clash between imperial
and polyarchic tendencies, and nations’ desire to express their independence
and identity, and as a result, to have their own state. It can be assumed that in order
to achieve this goal, as well as for small and medium-sized states to be able to defend
themselves against the forces of empires and effectively deter them, they must use
the concept of total/comprehensive defence, in its improved, 21st century version."(...