SECURITY CONCEPTS IN THE REALITIES OF THE ARMED FORCES’ TASKS OVER THE CENTURIES

The article characterises the evolution of the concepts of personal and structural security in the
context of the tasks of the armed forces. It presents concepts of security in the context of the
objectives of state and state power throughout history. These concepts have been undoubtedly
formulated in a differentiated manner depending on the political and constitutional system
formation dominating in a given historical period. The deliberations also highlighted the
expectations of societies towards armed forces. Interestingly, not so much lethal armed struggle
and mass killing, but limited armed action and low-intensity struggles, conducted in niches and
causing little or no loss of life.

