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The specific opportunities offered by information and communications technology for the military field aim at ensuring the necessary conditions for substantial improvement of planning and engagement manner of modern war. It is about available informational systems that integrate sensors, cameras and other equipment for obtaining information and which are continuously perfected. These equipments show step by step the rising level of connectivity with the informational networks for ensuring an appropriate visibility of the battlefield, including placement of each fighter or means of fighting. In this article the analysis effort will be focused on detailing the information hierarchical model within the informational society with an emphasis on the main effects of the impact of informational era on the social environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The attack of September 11, 2001 has changed the approach to the concepts of terrorism and organized crime. Terrorism and organized crime are daily threats to international security and, therefore, it was seriously necessary to study the links between these two phenomena. By their nature, especially the objectives sought and the effects generated in society, activities in the field of organized crime and terrorism are placed, obviously, among offenses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current security environment is very dynamic and constantly changing. Regionally, in the Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe there are tensions that persist or grow, caused either by transnational criminality or by old ethnic, religious, territorial or separatist disputes to contest existing borders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The army represents in the vast majority of countries around the world, one of the important state institutions. It is appreciated and perceived by both population and the public, political parties and civil society as a state structure of trust, which behaves like a strong arm preserving a high- quality of the civic, and the national traditions. At the same time, it is considered by both public authorities, and the population as a substantiated support, the need in natural disasters, critical social status or crisis, both for the entire nation, as well as local communities. Because of the nature and content of the tasks entrusted to it, the army plays an important role in society in which it activates. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]