Looking at the security environment and the genesis of military education in Czechoslovakia and the successor states, they point to the harmfulness of the ideologisation of this education, underestimation, insufficient funding and the absence of theoretical teaching and practical training in schools of all levels. The basic mechanism of functioning of the security environment not only in the Czech Republic is a comprehensive connection of military education with the life of society, which is influenced by internal and external vertical and horizontal relationships, where there are a number of friction areas and significant security risks. The main players in security on the threshold of the new decade of the 21st century are facing new challenges and perspectives.
This year marks the passing of more than one century since the Czechoslovak Red Cross (CSRC) was established as a predecessor of the current Czech Red Cross (CRC). The proposal for establishing the CSRC was submitted in February 1919 by the daughter of our president at that time-Alice Garrigue Masaryk (1879 Vienna-1966, Chicago, USA). Besides other things, she found the role of such an organization to be in the training of hospital attendants and in the operation of various social facilities. Such a proposal was quite logical when you consider the horrors of WW1, the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the formation of an independent Czechoslovak Republic (which until 29th February 1920 went by the name of Republic Czechoslovak). President Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (1850 Hodonin-1937 Lany) soon gave consent to the establishment of this organization, and he authorized Alice Masaryk-who had good work experience from medical and social areas-to build the CSRC organization. He also appointed her as its chairwoman. The CSRC Articles of Association were approved in the same year and the CSRC was also recognized as an auxiliary organization of the Military Medical Service. In December 1919 the International Red Cross Committee recognized the CSRC as another national organization of the Red Cross-and in January 1920 it was accepted into the League of Red Cross Societies. Alice Masaryk was the chairwoman of this organization for two decades. She contributed to its overall development and, thanks to her efforts, the first high school for social workers was established in the Czechoslovak Republic in 1919. Social workers training for nursing field care, and later also those training to work in nursing and medical services in families were educated at that school. It has to be mentioned that the CSRC also had its predecessors: the Patriotic Society for Aid in the Czech Kingdom and the Patriotic Society for Aid in Moravia were already established as independent organizations in the second half of the 19th century. After the Austrian Red Cross Society was established, the two above-mentioned societies became parts of it with their names slightly amended. These societies were focused on training medical and nursing personnel, charity, and the preparation of medical services during war, etc. It is also worth mentioning that the first nursing school on the territory of the then Austria was established in Prague in 1874 (including the adoption of the nursing care code) and in Vienna in 1882. As part of the above-mentioned societies, the
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