Our Premise
Resilience is essential to defence and deterrence.
Resilience means being able to resist and recover from disruption from any source – conflict, terrorism, and natural and man-made disasters.
But resilience means more than protecting national infrastructure such as food supply, water, health, energy, and communications.
It’s also about democratic institutions and practices, and the cohesion of society.
The tools of global communications and social media have democratized information. Anyone can be a commentator and a source of information, misinformation, and disinformation while remaining anonymous and free from editorial control and standards.
This is fertile ground for campaigns to undermine and discredit democratic values and institutions, and to promote and amplify divisions within free societies.
Our Promise
Resilient Futures is dedicated to identifying and understanding the full spectrum of threats to resilience, and to developing and supporting policies to address those threats.
“Resilience is an essential basis for credible deterrence and defence and effective fulfilment of the Alliance’s core tasks”.
Statement on the Commitment to Enhance Resilience. NATO Heads of State and Government, Warsaw Summit, 8 July 2016
Our Platform
Resilient Futures is pleased to provide a platform for publications which provide insight and analysis of current security issues.
The views expressed are the authors’ own.
Analysis
The Impact of the Digital Technical Revolution on Peer Versus Peer Kinetic Warfare
Military leaders have to ensure that “combat tactics, operational art and national strategy” take full advantage of the opportunities presented by technological progress. But it is all too easy to get it wrong, with potential catastrophic results. In this article Kenneth S Brower makes a strong case for rethinking our approach to procurement and to the technologies and tactics of power projection.
Analysis
President Joe Biden’s Afghan Policy: Challenges to Afghanistan’s Peace and Stability
As international forces leave Afghanistan, what does the future hold for this troubled state that has endured decades of internal conflict? This paper provides the perspectives of two analysts in neighbouring Pakistan who explore the imminent challenges to Afghanistan’s peace and stability.
Analysis
Observations on the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict Sep-Oct 2020 and its implications for the British Army
The conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia showed how the innovative use of technology had a decisive effect on the battlefield. In this article, Jon Searle shows that the lesson of that conflict must not be ignored.
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