Evaluation of the Nutrition Effectiveness of the Military Personnel of the Bulgarian Army During the Preparation for Participation in Expeditionary Operations

The conditions of a resource deficit and the new security environment predetermine the transformation of the logistics system in the Bulgarian Army as one of the most serious challenges facing the adaptation of the Armed Forces of Republic of Bulgaria to the requirements of the modern expeditionary operations. The problems, connected with the organization of the nutrition of the military personnel from the Ministry of Defense and the Bulgarian Army is a process, which is consistent with the contemporary requirements in the sphere of healthy nutrition and food safety, with the European guidelines and recommendations and with the experience of the Bulgarian scientists gained during a long period in this sphere. In result of the given circumstances emerged an unbalance between resources and abilities. This fact together with the challenges of the integrated logistics, require with an increasing keenness the systematic development of defensive abilities of the armed forces of our country and of the military units, participating in expeditionary operations. This development must have balanced abilities, covering all the components for the performance of the full spectrum of tasks, provoked by the expected scenarios and analyses for the development of the military strategy for security, based on a manager’s approach for the expenditure of defensive resources for the logistic supply with food of the units abroad.