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Security perception and security policy in Central Europe, 1989–2019 Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2021-02-10 Tamás Csiki Varga
(2021). Security perception and security policy in Central Europe, 1989–2019. Defense & Security Analysis: Vol. 37, Security Perception and Security Policy in Central Europe, 1989-2019, pp. 1-8.
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The security perception and security policy of Ukraine, 1991–2018 Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2020-11-15 Hennadiy Maksak
(2021). The security perception and security policy of Ukraine, 1991–2018. Defense & Security Analysis: Vol. 37, Security Perception and Security Policy in Central Europe, 1989-2019, pp. 53-65.
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Security perception and security policy of the Slovak Republic, 1993–2018 Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2020-11-04 Tomáš Čižik
ABSTRACT The development of Slovak and security policy faced many challenges throughout last few decades. Slovakia, since its independence in 1993, was trying to find its geopolitical orientation - from the “bridge” between West and East, through the “black-hole” of Europe to the fully-fledged member of the EU and NATO. The main aim of this article is to provide a short, but detailed, description of
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The security perception and security policy of the Czech Republic, 1993–2018 Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2020-10-28 Zdeněk Kříž
ABSTRACT All Czech strategic security documents since the end of the Cold War have been based on the argument that the risk of any direct military aggression against the territory of the Czech Republic is virtually nil. The 2015 Security Strategy responded to the changes of international security environment, especially to the Russian aggressive policy in Ukraine, hybrid war waged by Russia against
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Security perception and security policy in Romania since the 1989 Revolution Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2020-10-26 Alexandra Sarcinschi
ABSTRACT This paper argues that the security perception in Romania has been oriented in the following 30 years after the 1989 Revolution towards a gradually implemented multidimensional approach that can be identified both in the subsequent security strategies and in the national or European public opinion polls. The case study focuses on the perception of the risks and threats affecting both the Romanian
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Security perception in Croatia since the declaration of independence Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2020-10-26 László Szerencsés
ABSTRACT Croatia's security environment went through a gradual change since the declaration of independence in 1991. The changing environment is reflected on in the National Security Strategy and also in the security perception of the population. This period was marked with a solid transition of foreign policy by joining NATO and EU, and by later on fulfilling the responsibilities coming with the membership
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The security perception and security policy of Serbia Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2020-10-26 Aleksandar Vanchoski
ABSTRACT Serbia has important role in the regional peace and stability in South Eastern Europe. Over the last three decades Serbian security policies have been directly shaped by numerous turbulent political, social, and economic circumstances. In order the better to understand what determines the patterns of development and perceptions of Serbian security strategy and defence policies, a comprehensive
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The security perception and security policy of Hungary, 1989–2018 Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2020-10-25 Ádám Budai
ABSTRACT Between 1989 and 2018, the basic characteristics of the security perception of the Hungarian society remained constant, but significant changes occurred in the realm of security policy. The security perception of the Hungarian society retained its multidimensional character, while non-military dimensions became increasingly predominant. As a consequence of the changing strategic environment
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The security perception and security policy of Austria, 1989–2017 Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2020-10-25 Tamás Levente Molnár
ABSTRACT Austria's security architecture has changed significantly following the end of the Cold War. The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the country's accession to the EU in 1995, and the Yugoslav Wars in the 1990s led to a re-calibration of the Austrian understanding of foreign and security policy. As a result, Austria became more engaged in international peace-keeping operations and was interacting
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The security perception and security policy of Poland, 1989–2017 Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2020-10-25 Milena Palczewska
ABSTRACT Article is an attempt to answer the question about the state of Poland's security in years 1989-2017, what are its determinants, what kind of challenges Poland faces and which of them may turn into a threat and which into an opportunity, or what Polish potential is and which of its components determine its position on the international arena. It is achieved through a detailed analysis of actions
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The politics of counter-terrorism in post-authoritarian states: Indonesia’s experience, 1998–2018 Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Muhamad Haripin, Chaula Rininta Anindya, Adhi Priamarizki
ABSTRACT The separation of the Indonesian national police (POLRI) from the military (ABRI), now named the TNI, in 1999 led to transfer of domestic security role from the armed forces to POLRI. On one hand, POLRI has a greater role in internal security, particularly in countering terrorism. On the other hand, TNI continually attempts to reassert its dominance in the field of counter-terrorism. Previous
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The Un-Holy Russo-Chinese alliance Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Stephen Blank
ABSTRACT This essay argues that a Sino-Russian alliance has come into being over many years of the two states’ evolutionary policies. Although Vladimir Putin has emphasised that this is a multi-faceted relationship, this essay focuses exclusively on its military dimension. It comprises extensive inter-ministerial and inter-governmental cooperation, arms sales, joint exercises, and shared political
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Strategic challenges in the Baltic Sea region: Russia, deterrence, and reassurance Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Viljar Veebel
As the Baltic Sea is poor in natural resources, surrounded mostly by peaceful small nations, and is too small for large navy battles, all this should contribute to regional stability. However, in p...
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Cyber-weapons in nuclear counter-proliferation Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Doreen Horschig
ABSTRACT Under what conditions are cyber-weapons effective in nuclear counter-proliferation? With continued interest in nuclear proliferation professed by Iran, North Korea, and Saudi Arabia, a discussion of the effectiveness of counter-proliferation measures remains relevant. Cyber-attacks as military option in a state-on-state conflict still requires additional corroborating evidence to make conclusions
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To free or not to free (ride): a comparative analysis of the NATO burden-sharing in the Czech Republic and Lithuania Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Kristýna Pavlíčková, Monika Gabriela Bartoszewicz
ABSTRACT The recent rise in the defence budgets among the NATO members reawakens the free-riding dilemma. This article provides an analysis of the defence spending of two new member states, the Czech Republic and Lithuania. Based on the free-riding theory, we explain why some of the new NATO members decide to increase their defence budgets (Lithuania), and others do not (Czech Republic). In contrast
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Peacekeeping and civil–military relations in Uruguay Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Diego Esparza, Santiago Arca Henon, Hope Dewell Gentry
ABSTRACT There have been over 90,000 UN peacekeepers deployed around the world to 78 peacekeeping operations (PKOs) in over 125 countries since 1948. Some scholars have made the case that these missions have had a positive impact on the relationship between the military and the civilians they work for. However, other scholars have identified a negative impact on civil military relations (CMR). This
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Modern liberal wars, illiberal allies, and peace as the failure of policy Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2020-07-02 Lukas Milevski
ABSTRACT The post-Cold War period nearly up to the present has been characterised as the age of liberal wars, yet key facets of the liberal guidance of war remain under appreciated. This article seeks to address this wider gap with regard to the particular concern of war termination and the fulfilment or failure of policy. First, it develops characterisations of liberal wars based on the existing literature
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Clustering in defence-related procurement: the case of a Belgian naval construction cluster Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2020-04-02 C. Peeters, R. Pilon
ABSTRACT This paper examines the importance of closer co-operation in defence-related procurement. Led by the decision that Belgium will lead the procurement of 12 Mine CounterMeasures Vessels (MCMV), the case of a potential Belgian naval construction cluster is discussed. The feasibility of a potential cluster is investigated by looking at key elements of a successful naval construction cluster, the
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Private military contractors’ financial experiences and incentives Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2020-04-02 Caroline Batka, Molly Dunigan, Rachel Burns
ABSTRACT This article analyses findings from an original survey of 187 private military contractors on their incentives for working in the industry. Perceptions of contractors as “greedy, ruthless, and unscrupulous mercenaries” shape both public and military opinions of outsourcing and may impact U.S. military effectiveness, civil–military relations, and contractor identity. We find that contractors
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Defence industry in Iran – between needs and real capabilities Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2020-04-02 Robert Czulda
ABSTRACT The paper’s goal is to analyses the potential of the Iranian defence industry, including both research-and-development and production capabilities. It is argued that, despite official statements about the great power and sophistication of the Iranian defence industry, in reality its capabilities are very limited and cannot meet the operational needs of the Iranian armed forces. At the same
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United States defence contractors and the future of military operations Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2020-04-02 Charles W. Mahoney
ABSTRACT The United States’ global strategic outlook has shifted markedly since the end of major combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. As the United States’ strategic posture shifts, the nature of military operations is simultaneously changing rapidly. Many analysts predict that cyber-operations, autonomous weapons systems, artificial intelligence, and clandestine special forces operations will
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Addressing the “headwinds” faced by the European arms industry Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2020-04-02 Mitja Kleczka, Caroline Buts, Marc Jegers
ABSTRACT The European arms industry is challenged by several adverse “headwinds.” Fragmentation leads to costly duplications and, in conjunction with stagnating budgets and sharply increasing costs, prevents firms from exploiting economies of scale and learning. This is exacerbated by size differentials vis-a-vis the leading US arms manufacturers and competition from emerging producers. As some “headwinds”
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The U.S. Navy's task forces: 1–199 Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Colin D. Robinson
ABSTRACT Grouping warships for combat has evolved greatly over the centuries. In the early 1940s, the United States Navy began to group its warships for combat in much more flexible task forces than the previous single-type-of-warship formations. This system has evolved and spread to naval forces ashore but remains fundamentally unchanged. It now covers numbers between 1 to over 1000, of which the
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“These aren’t the SLOC’s you’re looking for” mirror-imaging battles of the Atlantic won’t solve current Atlantic security needs Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Steve Wills
ABSTRACT Discussion surrounding the announcement of a new NATO Maritime Command for the North Atlantic seems to have settled on the assumption that there is again a vital “sea-line of communication” (SLOC) between North America and Europe as there was supposed to be during the Cold War. The Soviet Union had a large fleet of nuclear and conventional submarines and it seemed very clear that Soviet admirals
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Being there: US Navy organisational culture and the forward presence debate Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Montgomery McFate
ABSTRACT This article argues that the US Navy’s roles (which have historically been bifurcated between warfighting and political use of force) manifest in its organisational culture as two different concepts of war: the US Navy as diplomatic actor and the US Navy as warfighting force. The conflict between these different concepts of war can be seen in the current debate about the definition and function
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Tarnishing victory? Contested histories & civil–military discord in the U.S. Navy, 1919–24 Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Branden Little
ABSTRACT As the First World War came to an end, the U.S. Navy's leadership engaged in a bitter fight over the “lessons” of the war. Admiral William S. Sims and Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels fought against each other's irreconcilable positions. Sims argued that the Navy Department's inexpert civilian secretary had hamstrung mobilisation, impeded the anti-submarine campaign, and ostracised capable
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Mind over matter? Multinational naval interoperability during Operation Iraqi Freedom Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2020-01-02 Steven Paget
ABSTRACT The increasing frequency of multinational operations has heightened the importance of interoperability. While human and cultural factors are only two pieces of the interoperability jigsaw they are of enduring significance. The cohesiveness of the relationship amongst the Royal Australian Navy, the Royal Navy and the United States Navy during the 2003 Iraq War was underpinned by high levels
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Innovation for seapower: U.S. Navy strategy in an age of acceleration Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2020-01-02 James J. Wirtz
ABSTRACT A call for innovation as a means to outpace the acceleration of technological change and to bolster capabilities quickly is a central theme of contemporary U.S. Naval Strategy. The need for innovation is accepted, but the integration of readily available technologies into the Fleet is slow. Innovation unfolds according to “Navy-Time,” a cycle lasting between a long-decade and thirty-years
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The strategic purpose of individual augmentee officers for junior partners in multinational military operations Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2019-10-02 Jon Rahbek-Clemmensen
ABSTRACT This article examines the strategic purpose of Individual Augmentee Officers (IAOs) for junior partners in multinational military operations through an exploratory case study of Danish IAOs in Iraq and South Sudan between 2014 and 2017. IAOs are individual officers who are moved from their normal functions to be seconded to other units of the armed forces of their own or another country or
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Are the Baltic States and NATO on the right path in deterring Russia in the Baltic? Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2019-10-02 Viljar Veebel, Illimar Ploom
ABSTRACT The aim of the current study is to discuss which particular factors Russia considers as sufficient deterrent capabilities and whether the national defence models implemented in the Baltic countries have the potential to deter Russia's military planners and political leadership. Whilst the existing conventional reserves of NATO are sizeable, secure, and rapid, deployment is still a critical
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Glimpse into an army at its peak: notes on the Somali National Army in the 1960–80s Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2019-10-02 Colin D. Robinson
ABSTRACT Bagayoko, Hutchful, and Luckham correctly argue that the structures, characteristics, and operating methods of official security institutions in Africa have been somewhat neglected, with a lack of much recent research. The Somali National Army (SNA) sits among these lacunae. Its formal structures can be used as a skeletal starting point and springboard to start to draw the network diagrams
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The struggle of a Kantian power in a Lockean world – German leadership in security and defence policy Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2019-10-02 Antti Seppo, Iulia-Sabina Joja
ABSTRACT German security and defence policy has undergone substantial transformation. This transformation requires an unprecedented level of political leadership, suggesting that Germany needs to solve the dilemma of how to supply leadership to increasingly demanding partners. What are the conditions under which German leadership can unfold in security and defence policy? To what degree do German role-conceptions
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The snowball phenomenon: the US Marine Corps, military mythology and the spread of hybrid warfare theory Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2019-10-02 Paul B. Rich
ABSTRACT This article reviews the book by Ofer Fridman and seeks to situate the strategic debate on hybrid war in the context of debate on the US involvement in Iraq. It points to intellectuals from the Marine Corps having a significant role in the initial development of the hybrid warfare concept at a time of some reservation in US military circles over COIN strategy as this was set out in the field
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Consumer drone evolutions: trends, spaces, temporalities, threats Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2019-10-02 Anna Jackman
ABSTRACT While the drone has become synonymous with the War on Terror, the asymmetric iconography of the battlefield is shifting. Commercially available off-the-shelf (COTS) drones are increasingly prevalent features of global battlefields, employed by non-state actors in both visualising such spaces, and the directing and inflicting of harm. As such usage increases, so too do concerns around their
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Revisiting the justification for an all-volunteer force Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Jomana Amara
ABSTRACT In 1968, President Nixon established the Commission on an All-Volunteer Armed Force, or the Gates Commission, which served as the impetus and justification for an All-Volunteer Force (AVF). At the end of its deliberations, the commission recommended abolishing the draft and transforming the U.S. military into a force of volunteers beginning in 1973. Interestingly, the debate regarding the
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The Russian hybrid warfare strategy – neither Russian nor strategy Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Sandor Fabian
ABSTRACT Following Russia’s annexation of Crimea and its initial actions in eastern Ukraine in 2014, the term hybrid warfare has received much public attention. Many have argued that the Russian actions we saw in Ukraine were part of a completely new strategy while others have suggested that there was nothing new in Russia’s actions. This article takes a critical look at these claims. Through the assessment
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Sharing the load: factors in supporting local armed groups in insurgencies Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Lawrence E. Cline
ABSTRACT Most counterinsurgency campaigns have featured the use of some form of local defense forces. Such forces have had a somewhat mixed record, both in their usefulness in actually countering insurgents and in their longer-term impact on internal security. This article focuses on historical cases that provide lessons for the best operational and strategic uses of local defense forces and measures
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Fighter aircraft acquisition in Croatia: failure of policy delivery Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Amadeo Watkins
ABSTRACT The possibility for Croatia to obtain new fighter aircraft is not new, as this option has been publicly debated for at least a decade. A sudden decision to advance the acquisition of a limited number of fighter aircraft was made in 2017 with an international tendering process concluding in early 2018. Through open source material, this paper will look at this procurement process by examining
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Success and failures of the Gripen offsets in the Visegrad Group countries Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2019-07-03 Zsolt Lazar
ABSTRACT The Soviet-led Council for Mutual Economic Assistance member, Central European countries found themselves in a difficult political and economic situation after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Three post-Eastern Bloc countries formed the Visegrad Group to strengthen their ties to the West, but the need for foreign investment, job creation and technology transfer was urgent. This is when military
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Land power in the age of joint interdependence: toward a theory of land power for the twenty-first century Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2019-07-03 William T. Johnsen
ABSTRACT This essay outlines a theory of land power. After explaining the absence of such a theory, the article establishes the modern context for such a theory, specifically within the concept of joint interdependence. The analysis defines key terms and premises behind the theory, to include a definition of land power. The argument then outlines the national elements of power that contribute to a
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The market and the military profession: competition and change in the case of Sweden Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2019-04-03 Joakim Berndtsson
ABSTRACT The rise of private military and security companies (PMSCs) challenges our notion of military professionals. PMSCs bring new claims to professional status and legitimacy outside military institutions and represent an increasing diffusion of - and competition over - military and security expertise. In light of this development, understanding the formation of professional identities in military
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The poverty of power in military power: how collective power could benefit strategic studies Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2019-04-03 Jan Angstrom, Peter Haldén
ABSTRACT Strategic studies deals intimately with the topic of power. Most scholars in the discipline work with a concept of power as an adversarial zero-sum competition. This is natural and necessary. However, other conceptions of power developed within political science and sociology could enrich strategic studies. Approaching two typical, traditional tasks of strategy – alliance building and war-fighting
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A usable past: a contemporary approach to history for the Western profession of arms Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2019-04-03 Michael Evans
ABSTRACT The most effective way for the Western profession of arms to use history is to disavow the purism and narrow specialisation of today’s academia in favour of developing a contemporary approach to the subject. The latter aims to foster a range of applied diagnostic skills that transcend the temporal dimensions of past, present, and future. A contemporary approach to history for military professionals
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From show of force to naval presence, and back again: the U.S. Navy in the Baltic, 1982–2017 Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2019-04-03 Sebastian Bruns
ABSTRACT This article discusses roles and missions of the United States Navy with a particular focus on the Baltic Sea. That particular sea has gained renewed political and military attention following Russia's resurgent and increasingly hybrid-offensive foreign policy. Baltic nations, uncertain of what the future holds, ought to look at sea power and maritime missions in the Baltic, as well as US
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The Somali National Army: an assessment Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2019-04-03 Colin D. Robinson
ABSTRACT To engage properly with the Somali National Army, to understand it in the hope of improving stability and the lives of over 12 million Somalis, good basic information on its composition and characteristics is necessary. Authoritative accounts on the subject have been scarce for over 25 years. This account seeks to detail the army’s dispositions across southern Somalia, and, more importantly
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Artificial intelligence & future warfare: implications for international security Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2019-04-03 James Johnson
ABSTRACT Recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) suggest that this emerging technology will have a deterministic and potentially transformative influence on military power, strategic competition, and world politics more broadly. After the initial surge of broad speculation in the literature related to AI this article provides some much needed specificity to the debate. It argues that left
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Implementing defence policy: a benchmark-“lite” Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Stephan De Spiegeleire, Karlijn Jans, Mischa Sibbel, Khrystyna Holynska, Deborah Lassche
ABSTRACT Most countries put significant amounts of time and effort in writing and issuing high-level policy documents. These are supposed to guide subsequent national defence efforts. But do they? And how do countries even try to ensure that they do? This paper reports on a benchmarking effort of how a few “best of breed” small- to medium-sized defence organisations (Australia, Canada, and New Zealand)
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Strategy, evolution and warfare: from apes to artificial intelligence Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Gergely Németh
“If you don’t know anything about computers, just remember that they are machines that do exactly what you tell them but often surprise you in the result.” That quote from Richard Dawkins, an emine...
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Defence models uncovered: how to understand the defence style of a country Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Glen Grant, Vladimir Milenski
ABSTRACT This paper describes four different styles, or models, of defence organisation that can be found worldwide. The framework outlined in the paper has been designed to help politicians, diplomats and officials understand better their own system so they can improve it, or to understand the system of others so they can produce better interoperability. The four styles (or models) suggested are mutually
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Hybrid warfare through the lens of strategic theory Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Murat Caliskan
ABSTRACT Hybrid warfare is the latest of the terms/concepts that have been used within the defence community in the last three decades to label contemporary warfare. It has been officially adopted in the core strategic documents of NATO, EU and national governments and has already inspired many articles, policy papers and books; however, this paper is unique in the sense that it analysis the hybrid
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In memorium: professor Emeritus Martin Hugh Anthony Edmonds of Hornby Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Thomas-Durell Young
The editorial team of Defense & Security Analysis have the regrettable task of informing the readership of the journal of the recent passing of its founding editor, Martin Edmonds, aged 79. Martin started the publication some 35 years ago within the then-Maxwell publishing empire. A professor of political science at Lancaster University, Martin (ably assisted for many years by Ms Pauline Elliott) was
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Editorial to open a debate: VOSTOK 2018: are Russian armed forces experimenting with mission-command? Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Thomas Durell Young
The press, analysts, and officials took close notice of the Russian strategic-level field-exercise (FTX) organized in mid-September 2018. Of note was its immense geographic size. It ranged from the Southern Military District, across nine distinct training ranges, with naval operations in the Sea of Okhotsk, the Bering Sea, and in the Avacha, and Kronotsky bays in Kamchatka. Whilst many commentators
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On the roles of free play in army exercises and the Russians Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Michael H. Clemmesen
ABSTRACT The article outlines the essential role of free play elements in various types of exercises for the development of in-depth and practical military professionalism. It thereafter argues why such use of free play contradicts the military science founded Russian Way of War.
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Lessons from VOSTOK-2018: free-play manoeuvers are overrated and mission-command needs to be bounded Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Jyri Raitasalo
Analyzing Russia’s VOSTOK 2018 strategic level field-exercise (or “strategic manoeuvers”) in the West from a Western perspective is hard. A key reason for this is that Western and Russian perspectives on war and the use of military force have grown apart. By this, Russia is still focused on traditional notions of mass, i.e. massed troops and firepower brought to bear on the enemy to achieve tactical/operational
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More military base closure? Considering the alternatives Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2019-01-02 David S. Sorenson
ABSTRACT Despite multiple base closing rounds, the United States Department of Defense still has excess base capacity, and thus President Trump and high-level Defense Department officials are calling for more base closure through the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) process. However, another BRAC may not be the optimal solution, because simple base closure is not an efficient way to reduce surplus
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An evolving state of play? Exploring competitive advantages of state assets in proliferation networks Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Daniel Salisbury
ABSTRACT Illicit procurement networks often target industry in developed economies to acquire materials and components of use in WMD and military programs. These procurement networks are ultimately directed by elements of the proliferating state and utilize state resources to undertake their activities: diplomats and missions, state intelligence networks, and state-connected logistical assets. These
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Russian mission-command in VOSTOK strategic exercises Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2019-01-02 Daivis Petraitis
ABSTRACT Russian military prefers and exercises differently compare to the Western planning and execution philosophies with mission command allowed and appreciated in sub unit levels only. “Vostok-2018” provided a lot of evidences Russians using de-centralised execution in the sub-unit levels and at the same time centralised control at levels of units and formations.
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A conceptual framework for the analysis of civil-military relations and intelligence Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2018-10-02 Thomas C. Bruneau
ABSTRACT The article argues that current conceptual approaches in civil-military relations are deeply flawed resulting in its irrelevance in analyzing major issues including war and the collapse of democracy. After highlighting major flaws in the work of the late Samuel Huntington and those who follow his approach, the article argues that other conceptual approaches, including Security Sector Reform
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Naval Advising and Assisting: History Challenges and Analysis Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2018-10-02 Kevin Rowlands
While shelves may be filled with books on the fighting prowess of sea powers, there is comparatively little on their day-to-day business, even if that business accounts for what is arguably their g...
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Shots per casualty: an indicator of combat efficiency for the first Australian task force in South Vietnam Defense & Security Analysis Pub Date : 2018-10-02 Andrew Ross, Bob Hall
ABSTRACT In combat, the ratio of shots fired per casualty inflicted can provide a measure of the combat effectiveness of a force. The shots per casualty ratio achieved by the 1st Australian Task Force in Vietnam is shown to change according to factors including marksmanship, tactics and combat type. While, over the course of the campaign, 1ATF fired an increasing number of shots to achieve a casualty
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