This is clearly seen in the military agenda of the Visegrad countries, when global or regional dynamics is changing, it makes countries to intensify interest in military cooperation as an example of this can be seen as consequences of the Global financial crisis of 2008, which led to the reduction of military budgets of many countries and forced to rethink the concept of military cooperation and the annexation of Crimea and the beginning of the war in Eastern Ukraine, prompting the Visegrad group countries to enhance the partnership in the military sphere.
As a result, when analyzing the military partnership between the V4 countries, one should take into account the fact that military cooperation is primarily an attempt to maximize their own military potential to ensure security through cooperation with other actors of international politics. So in the case of the Visegrad countries, the states pursued the goal of creating conditions for ensuring security by joint forces through a military partnership, the principles of which were laid in the First Declaration of the V4 countries, where it was mentioned the importance of the full withdrawal of Soviet troops from the region and was carried out by implementing the natural interests of national security, which also was to ensure their own independence.
That is why military cooperation in the modern world can be represented by cooperation in political, technical, economic, personnel, scientific and many other areas. At the same time, military partnership can be carried out both bilaterally and unilaterally, even in the context of the Visegrad group countries, when the countries are focused on achieving common military and political goals, which, as mentioned earlier, can be represented not only by defensive, but also by aggressive, punitive, peacemaking and liberation motives.
Due to the lack of an institutional structure for the Visegrad group, military partnership can be implemented through the negotiation and conclusion of bilateral and multilateral agreements based on regional cooperation between Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary, as well as, for example, within the framework of various projects of such global organizations as NATO. The paper analyzes the main aspects of military cooperation between the countries of the Visegrad group, as well as the factors that influenced its formation in the form in which we see it nowadays.
