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 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 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...
Geopolitics Military Affairs Strategic Thinking Strategy & Defence
Sudan Ravaged by Famine: Is an End to Civil War Possible?
Sudan, Africa’s third-largest country, is enduring a second year of brutal conflict that has spiralled into a humanitarian disaster. Fierce...
Complex Challenges & Resilience Military Affairs Strategic Thinking Strategy & Defence
REAIM 2024: New guidelines for the military use of artificial intelligence
In early September 2024, the second summit of the REAIM (Responsible Artificial Intelligence in the Military Domain) project, co-organised by...
Complex Challenges & Resilience Geopolitics Global Agenda Military Affairs Non-Military Security Strategic Thinking Strategy & Defence
Cybersecurity and the Defense Industry Should Become Priorities After NATO’s 2024 Summit
NATO’s 2024 summit is over; as always, it has brought forward multiple topics. Especially given the current turbulent geopolitical and...
Geopolitics Strategic Thinking
NATO has been (for years) electing a new Secretary General. Who is running, and what are the chances?
A European always chairs the top civilian post in NATO. The top military post is always held by an American....
Military Affairs Strategic Thinking
War in Ukraine: how Ukraine could keep the momentum and not be halted by winter
As Ukraine braces itself for another winter amidst a conflict that has lasted nearly two years, the war’s tactics must...
Geopolitics Strategic Thinking
Azerbaijan occupies Nagorno-Karabakh. How will the geopolitical situation in the Caucasus and the Middle East develop in the future?
On 19 September 2023, the Azerbaijani armed forces launched an offensive into Nagorno-Karabakh. Within 24 hours, Azerbaijan was able to...
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 Strategic Thinking
Japan Deepens Its Cooperation with NATO And Strengthens Its Military Capabilities. Could Tokyo Become Another Member of The Alliance in The Future?
NATO is in negotiations with Japan to open a liaison office no later than 2024 in Tokyo. At the same...
Military Affairs Strategic Thinking
Ukraine’s counteroffensive: operational opportunity or political choice?
For weeks, many people following the conflict in Ukraine have been waiting for a counteroffensive that would shift the initiative...
Geopolitics Military Affairs Strategic Thinking
The new US National security strategy shows that America will focus on competing with China and containing Russia
On October 12, the White House published the National Security Strategy (NSS) of the USA for the upcoming years. The...
Military Affairs Strategic Thinking
Russian anti-population campaign in Ukraine. Why has Russia taken this step, what is it pursuing and what are its possible consequences?
The current situation in Ukraine is beginning to deteriorate following the launch of Russia’s counter-population campaign. Ukrainian President Zelensky announced...
Geopolitics Global Agenda Military Affairs Non-Military Security Strategic Thinking Technology and Innovations
Nord Stream pipelines could be damaged as a consequence of a sabotage
Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines were damaged by three explosions on Monday, September 26. Nord Stream...
Military Affairs Strategic Thinking
Analysis of the offensive near Kharkiv. What factors were behind Ukrainian success?
Ukrainian forces gained the initiative and successfully carried out a counter-offensive in eastern Kharkiv. Its implementation is important in terms...
Geopolitics Military Affairs Strategic Thinking
Azerbaijan attacked Armenia. Why now and what does it mean for the Caucuses, Middle East, and Europe?
On Monday, September 12, 2022, Azerbaijani troops began intensively bombing Armenian military targets on the internationally recognized territory of Armenia....
Military Affairs Strategic Thinking
Russian military exercise Vostok 2022 is taking place. China and India are also participating
On Thursday, September 1, military exercise Vostok 2022 started in the eastern part of Russia. Approximately 50 thousand soldiers and...
Global Agenda Strategic Thinking
The Case Against the Concept of Great Power Competition
Great power competition is a trendy concept that frames the current perception of international affairs held by many. As such,...
Geopolitics Military Affairs Strategic Thinking
Transnistria may become a new front in Russia’s aggression against Ukraine
In recent weeks, there have been discussions about the possible involvement of the separatist republic of Transnistria (located between Ukraine...