Strategy & Defense
Strategy, military security, and classic defense threats are still at the heart of current international relations. In this program, we will focus on military technology, trends in armaments and technology, modern strategic thinking, geopolitics, and armed conflicts.
Military Affairs Strategic Thinking
Billion-dollar question: how to get enough drones that we need today – and tomorrow?
Drone technology introduced multiple new challenges in regard to security, warfare as well as industry. Policy-makers, military strategists and industrialists...
Military Affairs
Ground Drones in the conflict in Ukraine and the EU: another revolution in warfare?
The skies over Ukraine have, for years, been characterised by the buzzing of drones. However, lately, increased use of a...
Military Affairs
Dragoons of Ukraine – Motorcycle units in the war in Ukraine
In 2024, a new trend emerged on the battlefield involving the use of motorcycles for various purposes, including offensive operations....
Military Affairs
Ukraine striking Russian oil infrastructure – a significant problem for Russia?
Since the beginning of 2026, Ukraine has been pursuing a strategy of frequent attacks using long-range drones targeting the heart...
Military Affairs
The Ukrainian counteroffensive is proving successful – does this indicate a new dynamic on the front?
On the Ukrainian front, constant monitoring of the battlefield, most often using reconnaissance drones, leaves little room for surprise actions...
Military Affairs
Future of the Russian tank forces
Since the end of the Cold War, Russia’s military has undergone several reforms, altering how tanks are employed and funding...
Military Affairs
War in Ukraine: What will define the year 2026?
As the world looks to the battlefields of Ukraine in early 2026, it is clear that the conflict has entered...
Military Affairs
Adapting to Drone Warfare: Challenges of Integrated Defence on Europe’s Eastern Borders
The systemic vulnerabilities exposed by repeated drone incursions across European airspace have triggered a fundamental reassessment of European security thinking....
Military Affairs Strategic Thinking Technology and Innovations
The Future of Drones: Strategic interregnum
Drones are rapidly reshaping the global security environment, altering the character of warfare, defence planning, and strategic competition. As technological...
Military Affairs
Implementation of Swarm Tactics in the People’s Liberation Army
Technologically advanced countries had already been engaged in the development and application of drone technology for a longer period. This...
Military Affairs
The Drone Threat Outside Open War
Drones have become one of the most widely used tools in contemporary armed conflicts. While they are often associated with...
Military Affairs Strategic Thinking Technology and Innovations
Drone Futures: Road to 2040. Foresight from Central Europe
Drones are reshaping global industries, security, and public services— and Central Europe is no exception. This foresight study looks ahead...
Military Affairs
From Tehran to Alabuga: The Evolution of Shahed Drones into Russia’s Strategic Asset
Iranian drones were developed within the framework of Tehran’s asymmetric strategy, aiming to counter regional adversaries and mitigate Western military...
Military Affairs
Drone Centre Rubikon – The proof of the Russian army’s adaptability
Since the start of the war in Ukraine in 2022, we have witnessed many innovations in the usage of drones...
Geopolitics Global Agenda
The Arctic Mirage: Rethinking the Russia-China Cooperation
Author: Simona NikoléniováExpert Supervisor: Richard Turcsányi, Program Director at the Central European Institute of Asian Studies (CEIAS)Published by Adapt Institute...
Military Affairs Technology and Innovations
Slovakia’s Helicopter Dilemma: What Should the Slovak Armed Forces Do in the Future?
Author: Róbert BednárPublished by Adapt Institute as part of the Security Academy Program, supported by NATO and the British Embassy...
Geopolitics Global Agenda
Growing Importance of the Arctic: Why Slovakia Should Pay Attention
Author: Peter LitvínExpert Supervisor: CDR Rachael Gosnell, Military Professor of Strategic Security Studies, George C. Marshall European Center for Security...
Strategic Thinking Strategy & Defence
The Role of Strategic Foresight in Governance
Author: Ľuboslava HankovskáExpert Supervisor: Imrich Marton, Adapt Institute Associate Partner & Founder of Facta Pro FuturaPublished by Adapt Institute as...
Strategic Thinking Strategy & Defence
Could an Istanbul Deal Have Brought Peace?
The experience of the post-Soviet republics with security-related agreements with Moscow is such that the 2022 Russian-Ukrainian talks had little...
Geopolitics Military Affairs Strategy & Defence
Usage of Drones in the War in Ukraine
Drones, or UAVs, were often considered weapons of the future. Before the two world wars in the 20th century, the...
Geopolitics
Quo Vadis, Kosovo?
As Kosovo embarks on its 16th year of independence, it faces a critical juncture characterised by a challenging journey filled...
Geopolitics Non-Military Security
Securing the North: NATO’s Response to Russian and Chinese Arctic Ambitions
Current trends in Arctic ice melt carry profound implications not only for the planet’s climate but also for the stability...
Military Affairs Technology and Innovations
Slovak Defence Industry Up To 2030: Navigating Through New Reality Towards Rebirth
Over the past months, Adapt Institute analysts have been working on the preparation of a research study aimed at identifying...
Geopolitics Military Affairs
Navigating XXI Century Geopolitical Shifts: Challenges and Opportunities in the Defence Sectors of Germany and Poland
Read the Long Read via the link: NAVIGATING XXI CENTURY GEOPOLITICAL SHIFTS: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN THE DEFENCE SECTORS OF...
Global Agenda Military Affairs Strategic Thinking
NATO Public Forum 2023
On 11-12 July 2023, NATO’s Heads of State and Government will meet in Vilnius Lithuania, at the NATO Summit, to...
Geopolitics Military Affairs
Andreas Umland: Four Challenges Facing a Ukrainian-Russian Truce. Part III: The Crimean Conundrum
Executive Summary There is currently an intense debate about scenarios for ending, or at least freezing, Russia’s aggression against Ukraine....
Geopolitics Non-Military Security Technology and Innovations
Will the Switch to Renewable Energy Provide Fewer Instances For States to Use It as a Tool of Geopolitical Influence
Read the Long Read via link: Will the Switch to Renewable Energy Provide Fewer Instances For States to Use It...
Strategic Thinking
Andreas Umland: Four Challenges Facing a Ukrainian-Russian Truce. Part II: Domestic Hindrances for a Russian-Ukrainian Truce
Picture credit: designed by artist Boris Groh/Ukraine Postal Service Summary There is intense public debate over when and how to...
Military Affairs Technology and Innovations
Defence Procurement: When Political Will Needs Pairing With Legislative Changes
Download the Long read via link: Defence Procurement: When Political Will Needs Pairing With Legislative Changes – Viliam Ostatník Don't...
Geopolitics Strategic Thinking
Moscow’s Red Lines, Nuclear Threat, and Restraint
Red lines and nukes Whenever the Ukrainian armed forces achieved something vis-à-vis their Russian foe, and occasionally even without immediate...
Military Affairs Strategic Thinking Technology and Innovations
Non-nuclear Strategic Deterrence and pre-emptive approaches of Strategy. Poland and the Future of Deterrence by Denial. New A2/AD?
Download the Long read via link: Non-nuclear Strategic Deterrence and pre-emptive approaches of Strategy. Poland and the Future of Deterrence...
Geopolitics Military Affairs
Andreas Umland: Four Challenges Facing a Ukrainian-Russian Truce. Part I: The Constitutional Impasse
Executive Summary The already heated discussion among policymakers and policy shapers in the West on how the Russian-Ukrainian war could...
Geopolitics Global Agenda Strategic Thinking
Andreas Umland: How the West Can Help Ukraine: Three Strategies for Achieving a Ukrainian Victory and Rebirth
Executive Summary The geopolitical salience of the Russia–Ukraine War and the remoteness of Ukraine’s accession to the European Union or...
Military Affairs Non-Military Security
Report: StratCom for Supporting NATO Multinational Battlegroup in Slovakia
The NATO Multinational Battlegroup (NATO MN BG) has been present in Slovakia since April 2022 in response to the unprecedented...
Military Affairs Strategic Thinking
Transatlantic peace comes from within
Russia’s blatant and excessive use of force to achieve its foreign policy goals marked the crossing of the Rubicon. Russia’s...
Military Affairs Strategic Thinking
The NATO 2022 Strategic Concept Implications for the Baltics: Correcting the course, but still missing the point
The text discusses the most significant impacts of the NATO 2022 Madrid Summit from the perspective of expectations, ambitions and...
Military Affairs Strategic Thinking
NATO, the EU and the Growing Instability in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Challenges and Risks
Ethnic and political tensions within Bosnia and Herzegovina represent potential roots for a more serious conflict in the Western Balkans....
Global Agenda Strategic Thinking
EU ́s Strategic Compass and its Implications: What is the Future of European Strategic Sovereignty?
The Strategic Compass represents a major political proposal to prevent the risk of “strategic shrinkage”. Strategic shrinkage refers to three...
Geopolitics Military Affairs
Visegrad Insight – What Will Come from This Year’s NATO Summit?
Original source Visegrad Insight: The Madrid NATO summit will set NATO’s strategic direction for the next decade and beyond, while...