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The author gives an overview of the history of National Security and the Future (NSF). The first editorial board accepted a clear vision and mission of the NSF. That is why the NSF had to react to the political circumstances in which the journal has operated for 20 years. In the first period, international circumstances and the policy of detuđmanization directly influenced the choice of topics and papers published in the journal. For the past five years, the NSF has paid particular attention to the security of national and European critical infrastructure. A total of 257 texts were published on more than 8,000 pages and authored by 134 authors from 25 countries. The NSF has published studies on historical forgery, information operations, production of "fake news" and contributions to the theory and methodology of intelligence activities.

The author gives an overview of the Croatian national strategy (1990.-1999.) as defined by president Dr. Franjo Tuđman, a strategy leading to the international recognition of the Republic of Croatia, liberation of the occupied territories and the establishment of peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina. President Tuđman based his strategy on the philosophy of history of the contemporary Europe and on the right of peoples to self-determination. For Dr. Franjo Tuđman the historian: "The more the world integrates in a civilizational sense, the more it becomes individualized in the national and political sense". As a statesman Tuđman based his political strategy on the following principles: 1. The rule of continuous interactions and open communication. (This means advocating one's own point of view; harmonizing policy with international standards; continuous interaction is a prerequisite for finding partners, and open communication for maintaining partnerships with those who have the same or similar interests). 2. Strategic problem solving: identification and prioritization. (The sequence of political, diplomatic or military moves at the national and international level is crucial to the national strategy's success). 3. The rule of neutralizing the enemy with isolation. (Although one third of the Croatian territory was occupied by the same forces that held control of 2/3 of the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina, president Tuđman's strategy was not to physically defeat the enemies. The aim was to isolate the enemy by condemning its efforts at the political, military, and/or international level. An enemy who is isolated in its desires is neutralized. Its political, diplomatic, and military maneuvering space is narrow, reduced to its own strength, and therefore predictable. Since the Greater Serbia politics never consented to any of the peace plans and political solutions, it lead Yugoslavia/Serbia to isolation and enabled Croatia to accomplish its legitimate goals by military means.) Tuđman's archive serves as a starting point for the analysis of the principles and goals of Croatia's national strategy, i.e. the use of political, diplomatic, and military strategies to actualize an independent and integral Croatian state. The six books of Tuđman's Archive contain the correspondence of the first Croatian president with foreign statesmen, the Holy See, heads and representatives of international organizations, heads of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) and the former Yugoslav republics (this material comprises 1,397 documents) from 1990 to 1999.

Službena politika Republike Hrvatske prema Bosni i Hercegovini 1990-ih najčešće se ne tumači na temelju izvornih dokumenata i činjenica, nego je mješavina medijskih informacija i dezinformacija koje formiraju javno znanje prema mjeri (suprotstavljenih) političkih aktera. Stoga je Miroslav Tuđman priredio knjigu koja upravo izlazi pod nazivom "Bosna i Hercegovina u raljama zapadne demokracije: korespondencija predsjednika Republike Hrvatske dr. Franje Tuđmana i dokumenti o Bosni i Hercegovini 1990.-1995." u kojoj se prvi put donose izvorni dokumenti na temelju kojih je moguće prosuditi i razumjeti hrvatsku politiku prema Bosni i Hercegovini 1990-ih godina. Većina od 256 u knjizi objavljenih dokumenata prvi je put dostupna javnosti!

SEE marked the twentieth century because of the numerous crises and conflicts that permanently marked regional, European and world history. In order to understand processes in SEE, in order to protect their own national interests, with the aim of taking control over those processes in the area, many countries have sent members of their own intelligence and security agencies that operate in the SEE. During the aggression against Croatia and occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatian and Serbian intelligence agencies were active in SEE, but with the different positions and in the different roles. Some partner agencies tried to mediate between the two intelligence communities in order to establish contacts and start conversations. However, only the liberation of Croatian and B&H area by military means, changed the attitude of Serbia, and led to the establishment of contacts of national intelligence community.

U današnjem snažno povezanom i uvezanom svijetu,
kad se i stručni termini koji su inače donedavno bili rezervirani samo za
uporabu u stručnim krugovima, koriste u javnom izričaju, je, više nego ikad do
sad, važno razumjeti se. Često se događa da ista riječ, s drugačijim naglaskom
i u drugačijem kontekstu može imati bitno različita značenja. Stoga je takve
stručne prijevode potrebno prevesti na odgovarajući način uporabom znanja iz te
struke, u konzultaciji s jezikoslovcima. U ovom broju časopisa National Security
and the Future, donosimo prvi dio Leksikona izvještajnog nazivlja (nešto više
od 120 definicija) kojeg je u većem dijelu autor prof. dr. Miroslav Tuđman. Na
njemu je prof. Tuđman, s dužim pauzama, radio skoro 20 godina. U bazi podataka
evidentirano je nešto više od 3000 pojmova povezanih s izvještajno-sigurnosnim
djelovanjem. Bez obzira radi li se o djelovanju izvještajno-sigurnosnih
agencija ili nadležnih policijskih tijela.

The paper discusses usage of citation indices and similar databases as the source of data for determining scientific professional advancement. A short study on per-author basis, using Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar, Croatian scientific bibliography and online catalogue of the National and University Library in Zagreb, has been undertaken and shows disparate results for usage of these resources in mentioned context. Various problems surrounding such studies are discussed. Data complementation and especially firmer, more interconnected, national databases are recommended. Authors primary recommendation is thus to connect current national sources in a more wholesome system providing quality access to bibliometric data in this context. Fragments of the system are already present and usable: Crosbi(scientific bibliography), NSK (national catalogue),Hrčak (journal full text database)). This would impact both the self-consciousness of the individual scientist and the scientific politics bypassing the colonial and provincial mentality imposed by the monopoly of "international" commercial databases. Such integrated model of wholesome representation and distribution of scientific production on national level would serve as an answer to problems inherent to usage of citation databases such as WoS and Scopus.