Acquisitions of weapons have always been interesting to the public in Slovenia, mostly from national security point of view as well as due to its economic value. Procedures of acquisition of weapons in Slovenia in the past and now give us an insight into development of the field of acquisition of weapons. These procedures used to be done in the secrecy of the state, for which they were known only to highest ranking state officials, and these procedures have become more and more transparent through time. Society was given an insight into these procedures through development of acquisition and they are run according to well established and prescribed legal acts.
This diploma has narrowed the field of acquisition of weapons only to acquisition of weapons for military purposes and based on actual cases from Slovenia. It gives us a good insight into how legal basis for acquisition of weapons has changed through times, what kind of acquisitions do we know and who dictates and defines the demand of acquisition of weapons. In the second half of this diploma we have tested transparency of the acquisition based on actual cases in Slovenia and we have cross examined them in three different periods of time. First time period was right after Slovenia gained its independence, second one was right before Slovenia joined NATO, and the third period was after Slovenia entered NATO. According to the course and selection of procedures for acquisition of weapons in every individual period of time, it has shown that acquisition of weapons has become more and more a matter of public order than of a military procurement.
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