Austrian military magazine
The Austrian Military Journal (ÖMZ), founded in 1808, is the world's oldest specialist periodical in military science with reports and analyzes in the areas of security policy and defense policy , polemology , strategy and all of military science, current crises, conflicts and wars, as well as fundamental arms policy issues. It is an organ of the Austrian Armed Forces and appears in German every two months. The ÖMZ has a circulation of 4,500 copies per issue, can refer to 3,353 subscriptions, is mainly read in German-speaking countries and, in addition, enjoys a limited but global distribution in terms of numbers.
Brigadier Wolfgang Peischel is the chief editor .
Mission of the journal
The ÖMZ's contributions are intended to make security-policy-relevant processes and developments understandable to the reader and to provide background information on core military issues. Wherever possible, historical contributions are geared towards operationally usable derivations. For this purpose, from the analysis of historical events or developments, general functional principles are abstracted from the historical framework conditions, which can be applied to current military problems after appropriate adaptation.
In terms of research into the causes of war as a constituent aspect of the interdisciplinary subject of polemology, the relationships and interactions relevant to the emergence of crises and conflicts are recorded and systematically analyzed.
The media owner is the Republic of Austria, the publisher is the Federal Ministry for National Defense and Sport.
History of the magazine
After the devastating defeat of the Austrian imperial state against Napoleon in 1805, a realignment of the Austrian armed forces seemed inevitable if one wanted to reduce the probability of a renewed defeat against Napoleon. The driving force behind this reorganization not only of the army but of the entire state was Archduke Karl von Österreich-Teschen , who on January 9, 1801 had been appointed President of the Court War Council.
The Archduke started an ambitious reform program to reorganize the army and transform the Court War Council into a modern war ministry. In a petition to his brother, Emperor Franz II./I. he recommended the establishment of a military science research facility. Thus the archive of the Hofkriegsrat, the "Hofkriegsräthlichen Kanzleiarchiv" set up in 1711, became the "War Archive", which in addition to its task of collecting, indexing and organizing also took on the tradition of Austrian military history and research.
Archduke Karl of Austria created his own publication organ, the "Österreichische Militärische Zeitschrift", which appeared for the first time on January 1, 1808 under the direction of the archive director Field Marshal Lieutenant Moritz Gomez de Parientos (1744–1810) and continuously with interruptions (for example in times of war) is continued until today.
Meaning, essence and effect, goal setting
As part of military science research in Austria, the ÖMZ has made it its leading task to provide information on developments relevant to security policy and military strategy, research results and deductions - including forecasts where possible - and to make contributions based on scientific quality criteria as a basis for higher military command training and as support for ongoing company decisions.
The ÖMZ creates accompanying publications on current research and cooperation projects of the Ministry of Defense and makes the results of the scientific work, v. a. Department member, usually accessible to a highly qualified, international specialist audience.
The maxim is to allow controversial, perspective views on a topic or to consciously search for them in order to leave the evaluation of the arguments presented to the reader himself and to enable him to penetrate the problem more deeply through this "dialectical" approach.
Topic canon
- politics
- Politics in general
- Security policy
- Military / defense policy
- Geopolitics / Geostrategy
- Arms policy
- terrorism
- Military core topics (without military history)
- Strategy (doctrines, concepts, white paper)
- Operational leadership
- Psychological warfare, information warfare
- General leadership (including teaching and leadership training), inner leadership, commitment
- General education
- Force planning and organizational development
- Armaments & procurement
- Communication and military education
- War theory and polemology
- Defense ethics
- History (military history including recent history)
- Law (constitutional and international law, legal aspects of international operations)
- Other branches of science
- Science in general, Research & Development (R&D or R&D), technology
- Economy and finance
- Psychology, sociology, intercultural competence
- Philosophy (excluding military ethics)
Digital version - can be ordered
Since January 2012 the annual editions 2004 to 2011 can also be ordered on CD from the editorial office.
See also
literature
- Carl Zitterhofer: Streffleurs military magazine 1808-1908. A history of this magazine on the occasion of its 100th anniversary with a general register of the military magazine 1808–1907 and the organ 1870–1906. Seidel and Son, Vienna 1908 (supplement 1908–1912, Vienna 1913).
- Horst Pleiner: The Austrian Military Journal - A historical review from the beginning to the present. In: Österreichische Militärische Zeitschrift - Festschrift on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the Austrian Military Journal. Special issue Vienna 2008.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Even the Royal United Services Institute - Journal (RUSI) is younger than the ÖMZ. The origins of the institute can be traced back to an appeal in 1829 calling for a "strictly scientific and professional approach to the study of military affairs" ( archive link ( memento of March 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Sept. 14 . 2011). The actual establishment by the Duke of Wellington took place in 1831 ( [1] , Sept. 14, 2011). The publication began in 1857 ( archive link ( memento of March 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Sept. 14, 2011).
- ↑ The term polemology was mainly coined by the French sociologist Gaston Bouthoul , who, like his colleague Julien Freund , made it known in science. This is a sub-area of the theory of international relations that primarily examines the reasons for the emergence of wars (or conflicts), their functioning, social change during wars and the consequences of wars, using methods from various disciplines . See Polémologie (Jan. 24, 2012); Polemology (Jan. 24, 2012); [2] (Jan. 19, 2012). See on this topic also: Paul Ertl / Jodok Troy (ed.): The enemy - representation and transformation of a concept of culture. Volume 1: Fundamentals of the concept of the enemy and currently effective enemy concepts. 2nd, revised edition, Vienna 2009; Volume 2: Selected areas of the enemy concept. 2nd, revised edition, Vienna 2009 (= series of publications by the National Defense Academy; 1/2008 and 2/2008).
- ↑ See Horst Pleiner: The Austrian Military Journal. - A historical review from the beginning to the present. In: Österreichische Militärische Zeitschrift - Festschrift on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the Austrian Military Journal. Special issue, 2nd edition, Vienna 2008. p. 40
- ↑ # Cf. ibid. P. 40 ff.