The Marshall Center named Slovak Republic Armed Forces Chief of Staff Gen. Lubomir Bulik graduate of the month for May 2009. General Bulik attended the Marshall Center’s Senior Executive Seminars 2000-4 and 2003-3, while serving first as director of the defense planning division within the ministry of defense and later as chief of plans and policies on the general staff. It was during this time that General Bulik served as one of the main architects for the Slovak Republic's military reform plan through 2015. General Bulik was appointed armed forces chief of staff for two five-year terms in December 2004 and 2008.
He was promoted to lieutenant general in May 2005 and to general in January 2007.General Bulik graduated from the military academy with a degree in engineering in 1981 and served in various command and staff positions until 1985, when he became a university lecturer and senior officer specialist. From 1993 to 2004 he held several positions at the ministry of defense and general staff. In addition to the Marshall Center, General Bulik has completed programs at the Bundeswehr General Staff School in Hamburg and the Military Language Institute at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. He has published numerous articles on security and defense issues. “I appreciated the chance to study at the Marshall Center in 2000 and in 2003,” General Bulik said.. “My studies [there] helped me widen my knowledge and my international contacts. Mutual daily interaction and dialogue with foreign students and expert lecturers contributed to reinforce mutual confidence and understanding of attitudes, approaches and coherence of the international security environment. After having gained experience visiting and studying at several other institutions, I dare say that the Marshall Center is one of the most recognized educational institutions, the prestige of which constantly rises in today’s turbulent environment.”
