REVIEW for defence and security industry 1/2018

Dear readers,

In the beginning of the year, a traditional meeting of the representative Editorial Board of the “Czech Defence Industry and Security Review” and “Review pro obranný a bezpečnostní průmysl” magazines was held in the conference room of the Army House in Dejvice to take stock of the previous year and to discuss the future concept and details of the development of both periodicals in the years to come. New members of the Editorial Board were introduced and some changes of the Editorial Board announced, including Mr. Miloslav Stašek, who has been appointed the State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. On this occasion, we asked him for an interview to discuss, for example, the implementation of the new Foreign Service Act or Economic Diplomacy Projects. Following the Editorial Board meeting, a ceremonial event, attended by numerous invited guests from all spheres of the Czech defence and security community, during which outstanding personalities, managers, companies, or projects of the Czech defence and security industry received awards. More on Page 34. The introduction of the Czech companies which will be present at the May 2018 IDEB Fair in Bratislava is an integral part of this issue. Our publishing house as the media partner of the event will be present as well and do its best to support the Czech defence and security industry as much as possible there.

Šárka Cook, Editor in Chief