| Language: | English | Abstract: | The end of the Cold War was marked by the transition from large armies to smaller, highly mobile and technologically advanced armies. A soldier is no longer an individual in the unit, but a system that has many subsystems in which he fights. Among them, personal combat equipment and personal sleeping equipment, which together form the whole of the soldiers' equipment for successful and effective combat operations and survival on the battlefield, are especially important. Personal combat equipment serves a soldier as a platform in which he fights and where he has all his tools to carry out the fight, while protecting him from the enemy's projectiles and their fragments. If personal combat equipment is a subsystem for the conduct of combat, then personal sleeping equipment is a subsystem for the survival of soldiers on the battlefield. With this equipment, a soldier is protected from environmental elements that affect him during his rest and recovery. Inadequate, dysfunctional and poor quality equipment depletes soldier%s psycho-physical endurance, which can be directly reflected in the risks and the performance of his duties and the conduct of combat. The Republic of Slovenia should not allow such state of the soldier%s equipment primarily due to the continuous provision of the country's defense capability and the fulfillment of political commitments to the Euro-Atlantic Alliance, within which it must meet the high standards of interoperability, competence and equipment for joint operation in all environmental, terrain and combat situations. In accordance with technological developments and with the required standards, it is necessary to constantly strive that a soldier is equipped with adequate personal combat and sleeping equipment at all times. In this thesis, we analyze the suitability of personal combat equipment and personal sleeping equipment of a Slovenian infantry soldier, determine its strengths and weaknesses, and on the basis of the research we propose a set of measures that would be sensible to take into account in the Slovenian Armed Forces. Still, there remains an open political and social question about the role of the Slovenian infantry soldier in the future and the related dilemmas which equipment should be best for him? | Keywords: | equipment, vest, protection, personal gear, system |
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