THE PLACE AND ROLE OF TERRITORIAL DEFENCE IN THE NATIONAL SECURITY SYSTEM OF THE UKRAINIAN STATE

Creating a new territorial defence system is caused primarily by a change in the essence of war and the content of the armed struggle. Modern war is not an armed confrontation anymore. The events of recent years clearly show us examples of the so-called war without rules, when the prime targets of defeat are not even the armed forces and their personnel, equipment and weapons, but the infrastructure of the state, human resources ensuring its smooth functioning. The modern warfare is importantly featured by widely used terrorist methods of struggle, identical scenario of unleashing of armed conflict, overthrow of the state governments, and implementation of coups in the territories of different countries of the world. The article describes some theoretical propositions about the nature of the territorial defence of Ukraine.