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148972
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The Baltic States are once again worried that their security is under threat. The US and NATO have responded with air patrols, joint exercises, and battalion-sized ground-force deployments. As important as these efforts have been, they do not fully address Russia’s anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) and precision strike capabilities, both of which undermine NATO’s stratagem for deterring aggression in the first place. Alexander Lanoszka and Michael A Hunzeker assess the current military imbalance and describe two conflict scenarios to show how A2/AD and precision weapons threaten extended deterrence. They conclude with a discussion of the policy implications.
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ID:
148977
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In 2015, UN Security Council Resolution 2242 advocated deliberate outreach to women when devising counterterrorism projects. This is based on assumptions of the need to empower women, as well as their particular ability to exert benign influence over young people and stop radicalisation to violence. The approach has been particularly prevalent in Western Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) projects aimed at preventing homegrown Islamist radicalisation. On the basis of fieldwork with Muslim communities in five countries – Canada, the UK, Germany, France and The Netherlands – Emily Winterbotham and Elizabeth Pearson challenge the underlying assumptions of such an approach, and suggest aspects of women’s CVE projects may exacerbate existing community tensions, and do not reflect the changing norms of Muslim communities in the West. Alternative modes of engagement could improve the efficacy of CVE and enable it to better appeal to those it is intended to help.
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ID:
148974
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Globalisation is challenging the conventional, state-centric concept of security while politicians perpetuate the myth that the state can, and will, offer absolute security to its citizens overseas. David Bond explores how the scale of the challenge of a non-combatant evacuation operation (NEO) could already be beyond the capacity of many states in the current era of increasingly diverse security threats, reduced capital military assets and diminishing defence resources.
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ID:
148971
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The traditional business model of transnational cooperation in armaments development and production is not working. Although the model is designed for economies of scale through long production runs, the political allocation of work share hampers supply-chain management. This leads to worse results than would have been attained in purely national projects. In its place, Steven Grundman and James Hasik propose a new model with fewer customers, a focus on innovation and an emphasis on developing multiple purchasing options with more competitively determined multinational content.
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148978
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The US has exported versions of the Department of Defense’s Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System (PPBS) to almost all the legacy defence organisations of former communist states in Central and Eastern Europe to enable them to plan and create modern financial management systems. Thomas-Durell Young traces how these efforts have largely failed to produce viable defence plans, and argues that only by strengthening the influence of policy over programming will this be possible.
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ID:
148976
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International operations against piracy in the Western Indian Ocean are due to wind down. Some major external navies will probably remain, but the region’s states will have to adjust to their new role in managing the challenging security environment. In this article, Christian Bueger and Jan Stockbruegger examine the options for cooperation in this volatile region.
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ID:
148979
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Sound has always been a factor in war; sometimes used as a weapon, signalling device, motivator or to distract or dismay the enemy. Phillip S Meilinger explores how this use of sound in battle began millennia ago as shouts, war cries and drum rolls, and continues today with the use of rock music and sonic devices to shape the battlefield.
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ID:
148975
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Edward Schwarck discusses the diplomatic and operational rationale for why and how London and Beijing might cooperate on non-combatant evacuation operations, and the attendant benefits and drawbacks. He concludes with a list of policy recommendations for both Britain and China as they plan for the future.
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