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 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 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 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...
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....
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...
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...
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....