Review for defence and security industry 3/2023

Dear readers,

In the current world of wars, terrorist threats, aggression, and dissatisfaction at all levels, but also in the period of Christmas holidays and the welcoming of the year 2024, we offer you this year’s last edition of the magazine Review.  It brings you several interesting interviews with important representatives of the state administration and industry, thereby fulfilling the main mission of the magazine, which is to facilitate better communication between the state and industry in the field of the defence and security community.

Just like last year, I must honestly say that the Publishing House MS Line and the editors of the Review greatly appreciate the fact that a significant part of Czech Defence and Security Industry companies used the magazine REVIEW for the Defence and Security Industry as well as our other media IDET NEWS and Security and Defence Technologies Catalogue of the Czech Republic for the presentation of their activities.

The DSIA CR member base includes approximately 160 companies, 75 % of the companies, three quarters of the members, used the magazine Review for their presentation. It is an extraordinary event for us and I appreciate it very much.

The editors also participated in the sessions of the newly elected Presidium of the DSIA of the Czech Republic and organized an extraordinary meeting of the REVIEW Editorial Board to comment on the proposed publishing plan 2024 in the premises of the Air Service of the Police of the Czech Republic in Ruzyně.

On this occasion, I would like to especially thank the Representative Editorial Board, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, the Ministry of Defence of the Czech Republic, the Ministry of the Interior of the Czech Republic, and their executive units – the Czech Armed Forces, the Police of the Czech Republic and the FRS of the Czech Republic, but also the Customs Administration of the Czech Republic, the Prison Service of the Czech Republic and the Administration of State Material Reserves of the Czech Republic for supporting our work and for active participation in the creation of the magazine. It is a unique community that is outstanding in its own way and original in the Czech Republic. Of course, big thanks go to the Presidium of the DSIA CR, the Brno Trade Fairs, the management of the FFF and NATO Days, as well as many others for the great cooperation in 2023.

We are honoured that even our Publishing House and editors could, at least to a small extent, contribute to the success of the Czech Defence and Security Industry in the form of more than twenty-five years of support and promotion at home and abroad. If you give us the opportunity in this direction, we will always be at your side.

I wish you sound health in the year 2024.

Miloš Soukup, Editor-in-chief