Mission, Goals and Objectives

The Journal "Defense and Science" is a fully open access, international, refereed and peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the LEPL-David Agmashenebeli Georgian National Defense Academy.It is open to all scholars, researchers, and practitioners interested in national defense issues, including its military and civilian components, relationships, and dependencies. It publishes original papers that make a significant contribution to the field of security sciences, as well as to the social, humanitarian, and technical sciences (if they respond to the journal's mission). 

Goals, mission and concept of the magazine: 

In line with the Academy's mission, the journal aims to offer competitive papers to researchers from different countries;strengthening the academic community in scientific development, popularizing innovative solutions, and presenting the results of theoretical and empirical research on national defense, both in the military and non-military fields.

The journal assists defense theorists and practitioners, scientists, including representatives of the military and special public administration,as well as representatives of business and the defense industry, civil society (defense and paramilitary organizations) to contribute to the development of science.

The concept of the journal is to present high-quality scientific papers and make them as accessible as possible to the global scientific community and any interested person. 

The mission of the journal "Defense and Science" is to create conditions for cooperation for a wide range of scientific and professional communities: sharing knowledge, research results and experience; developing military science and promoting its awareness in civil society.

The journal's objectives are: to establish a worthy place among highly rated international scientific to establish itself among highly rated international scientific publications, to be included in authoritative international databases recognized by international scientific circles,expanding the international audience of readers and authors and popularizing the magazine.

Periodicity: The journal "Defense and Science" is published once a year, in English.Publishing scientific articles is free of charge. All costs related to reviewing and editing the text are borne by LEPL-David Agmashenebeli Georgian National Defense Academy.Articles are published in electronic and printed versions.