This article presents the problems of military operations in the context of the local culture, which is of essential importance to the conducted military actions. Despite the globalisation process, which, as it seems, blurs cultural diperences, these diperences still exist, and in many cases they even get deeper. vis complex situation is also combined with conuicting interests of various state and non- -state entities and social groups. A part of this image of the reality is the phenomenon of war, present from the beginning of the human civilisation. It should be noted that cultural diperences are among the major causes of wars. Only for such a reason, the area of military operation becomes culturally alien at least for one of the parties to the conuict. We should also consider the operations conducted by international forces in diperent parts of the world, where oqen a multicultural military contingent operates in a culturally alien environment. vese are particularly complex issues, which cannot be entirely explained, hence the scientitc discussion presented below is merely an attempt to diagnose the most important problems without identifying specitc solutions. Attention was paid to cultural factors apecting the sources of conuict and their developments and the cultural shape of the environment of military operations. Among the global phenomena, which determine the course of the future armed conuicts, the cultural transformation of society and the related tensions, global culture of trade, migration, mass communication and information technologies as well as the revival of religion and nationalism are mentioned. We should also bear in mind the local conditions, which include social, political, governance, assessment and evaluation, communicational and organisational aspects as well as the aspects of acceptance of autonomy by the parties to the conuict.