Czech general among leading candidates for post of NATO Defense College dean

Franišek Mičánek, the head of the Centre for Security and Military Strategic Studies at the University of Defence​ in Brno and former director of the Force Planning Division at the defence Ministry, is among the leading candidates for the post of the dean of the NATO Defense College in Rome, the daily Právo wrote on Saturday. The new dean will be elected by NATO officials in Brussels on Monday. The chairman of NATO's Military Committe, General Petr Pavel, told the daily that he would support Mr Mičánek's election.