ResilientFutures

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Resilience, Resistance, Recovery

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 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.

“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

How we work

A think tank and a network with a focus on the practical

Resilient Futures is a non-profit company with a small administrative core and a large, diverse network of expert associates with backgrounds that all tie in with resilience: security, law and order, social cohesion, energy security, and diplomacy.  Our approach is cross-disciplinary, analytical, and politically impartial.  Our focus is on the practical.

Who we are

Drawing on their expertise and experience in management, law, and international relations, the core team can draw upon their extensive network of professional contacts to provide analysis and recommendations on most areas of resilience-related public policy.

Henry Strickland

Alan Riley

David Hobbs

Analysis

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.

  • 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.
  • 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. Written before face-to-face talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban, its insights into the fragile security situation remain wholly relevant. In the authors' view, the end of conflict in Afghanistan can end either of two ways: convening a People’s Grand Assembly to formulate a plan for a transitional, all-inclusive government, or a Taliban march on Kabul resulting in still further bloodshed and the establishment of a Taliban emirate.
  • 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.

Recent public events

“The Debate on China in the United Kingdom”

Recorded on 22 February 2021Co-sponsored by Resilient Futures and the Foundation for Social Studies and Analysis (Spain)

Speakers

Tom Tugendhat, Chair of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC) and Chair of the Conservative Party China Research Group (CRG) London
Edward Lucas, Nonresident Senior Fellow, CEPA

Available on the FAES website https://fundacionfaes.org/es/

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