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Policy for Cadets and Midshipmen – Teaching Dutch Security and Defence Policy at the Netherlands Defence Academy

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At the end of their bachelor degree program War Studies and the initial military training Dutch cadets and midshipmen have to learn in which political and policy environment they have to operate in their future professional life. This competence is part of the ‘thinking soldier’ concept that guides their education at the Faculty of Military Sciences at the Netherlands Defence Academy. The module ‘Netherlands Security and Defence Policy’, also known under its Dutch abbreviation NVDB, aims to achieve this. This chapter highlights the goals and main contents of this course and elaborates in which manner the complicated substance of this topic is being taught at bachelor level to cadets and midshipmen at the Netherlands Defence Academy by the use of different educational tools.

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  1. 1.

    Netherlands Defence Academy 2017, p. 15.

  2. 2.

    When the words ‘cadets’ or ‘he’ are used, both female and male officers are referred to.

  3. 3.

    See Roennfeldt 2019, pp. 61–62.

  4. 4.

    Janowitz quoted in Roennfeldt 2019, p. 62.

  5. 5.

    Roennfeldt 2019, p. 62.

  6. 6.

    Janowitz 1964, p. 426.

  7. 7.

    Roennfeldt 2019, p. 63.

  8. 8.

    Krulak 1999.

  9. 9.

    Moskos et al. 2000.

  10. 10.

    European Commission & High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy 2013.

  11. 11.

    Kalu 2008, p. 87.

  12. 12.

    Cursusbeschrijving Nederlands Veiligheids- en Defensiebeleid (NVDB) 2018 [NVDB Course Guide 2018].

  13. 13.

    Cursusbeschrijving Nederlands Veiligheids- en Defensiebeleid (NVDB) 2018 [NVDB Course Guide 2018].

  14. 14.

    Voorhoeve 1985 (peace, profits and principles dates from 1979).

  15. 15.

    See Hellema 2016, pp. 48–49.

  16. 16.

    Noll and Moelker 2013, pp. 255–267.

  17. 17.

    Biehl et al. 2013, p. 12.

  18. 18.

    Biehl et al. 2013, pp. 7–8.

  19. 19.

    Cadets have to read selected chapters of Breeman et al. 2016.

  20. 20.

    Cadets have to study articles about recent EU policies Drent et al. 2017 and the development of EU defence capabilities Zandee 2017.

  21. 21.

    The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies and Clingendael.

  22. 22.

    Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken 2018 [Ministry of Foreign Affairs 2018]; Ministerie van Defensie 2018 [Ministry of Defence 2018].

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Frerks, G.E. (2019). Policy for Cadets and Midshipmen – Teaching Dutch Security and Defence Policy at the Netherlands Defence Academy. In: Klinkert, W., Bollen, M., Jansen, M., de Jong, H., Kramer, EH., Vos, L. (eds) NL ARMS Netherlands Annual Review of Military Studies 2019. NL ARMS. T.M.C. Asser Press, The Hague. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-315-3_16

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