Inventing the National Defence: Eastern Europe Between the Fall of the Berlin Wall and Accession to NATO, Eesti sõjaajaloo aastaraamat = Estonian yearbook of military history, 4 (10) 2014, editor-in-chief Toomas Hiio, editor Sandra Niinepuu (Tallinn-Viimsi: Estonian War Museum – General Laidoner Museum, Tallinn University Press: 2013)
The yearbook is dedicated to the restoration of
national defence in the Baltic states and other Eastern European countries
after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The issue contains treatises by
historians and military personnel from the United States, the Czech Republic,
Latvia, Germany and Estonia on the restoration or restructuring of national
defence in Eastern Germany, Czechoslovakia, Latvia, Poland and Estonia in the
period from 1990 to 2004. The yearbook also features popular science articles
by Toe Nõmm, on Estonian arms acquisitions in the 1990s, and by General Ants
Laaneots, on the military plans of the Soviet Union at the beginning of World
War II, as well as a memoir/treatise by Hain Rebas on the failure to pass the
national security concept in the Estonian Parliament in 1993 and on the so‑called
Israeli arms deal of 1993. The yearbook begins with an introduction by Trivimi
Velliste, former Estonian Foreign Minister and Ambassador to the UN.
