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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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 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...