Based on historical, legal, and sociological research conducted within a research project funded by the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine titled "Improvement of human capital development: a factor in increasing the mobilisation potential of Ukraine", theoretical and methodological principles for improving the mobilisation potential of Ukraine through human capital formation mechanisms are substantiated in this paper. An overview of the main approaches to the recruitment of armies in the context of historical evolution is conducted, and a list of actual and potential threats to a reduction of Ukraine's mobilisation potential is updated. Factors of motivation and demotivation influencing the participation or otherwise of Ukrainian youth in military mobilisation are defined. Optimal legal models for military mobilisation in a democratic constitutional state are also proposed. A general strategy whereby the policy of formation of patriotism through education and media for the actualisation of the mobilisation potential of Ukraine may be realised is also outlined. The article aims to develop conceptual bases for improving the mobilisation potential of Ukraine based on optimising the mechanisms of human capital formation. It also aims to enhance the mobilisation potential of Ukraine as a system-forming factor in ensuring the state's defence capabilities.

This article is devoted to the finalization of the theoretical results of the research project ‘The improvement of the methods of the human capital development as a factor for the improvement of Ukraine’s mobilization potential’, Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic institute, 2017-2020. The main goal of the research was the search for interdependencies and correlation of two mainstream development processes: human capital development and Ukraine’s mobilization potential for military and other possible purposes of contemporary life. The article describes the main challenges and management models used in Ukraine during the last hundred years to shape mobilization potential and defensive capacity. There is a general interdependence in civil-military relations that could be described as a gradual implementation of certain manning strategies for armed forces in Europe, and later – in the whole world. This situation has been repeated already for several times, and now the global trend is an all-volunteer force, based on the free will of a person to be a soldier. The realities of the Ukrainian situation and military conflicts, where it is involved, demonstrate the contradiction of the current situation, global trends, and expectations of the population of Ukraine. In this article, such analysis is made based on previous and actual military conflicts of Ukraine and Russia in particular. The shaping and control of processes of human capital development could become the basis for the stabilization of paradigm shifts in the current geopolitical situation. The article provides suggestions and practical advice for the improvement of the state policy of Ukraine.

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This article deals with the process of army reformation during the late Habsburg Monarchy and discusses the role of local military privileges in the state structure, governance and territorial cooperation of the Empire. The late Habsburg Monarchy was a country of permanent modernization that could easily be traced in many aspects of life, the military among them. Starting in 1868, the Habsburgs applied universal conscription for their army and began a long-term programme of reformation and improvement in their armed forces. The main architect of the programme was archduke Albrecht and his main ideas were realized in the army until 1914. Among the most important components of the military reform was following the unification and centralization of the army, cancellation of local military privileges and creation of a single governing body for all the soldiers of the Empire-k. u. k. Ministry of War in Vienna. At the same time, we could see that even after 1868 there were several territories with local military privileges at different levels. The main task of this article is to discuss the real role of such privileges in the imperial military structure and figure out the main reasons for their existence, 1

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