Leaders from around the world are gathering for NATO, there is a lot of the agenda, not least talk on its own demise. This is what a revitalised defence alliance should look like.
I wonder if there's a prior set of questions worth asking. If defensive capability is largely emergent, then procurement and funding are only part of the picture. The adaptive substrate that produces engineers, healthy workforces, innovation, resilient infrastructure, institutional learning and public trust may ultimately be just as important to national defence as the defence budget itself. It suggests defence resilience is inherently a cross-domain question rather than one confined to defence policy alone.
It’s encouraging to read that you keep putting the geopolitical context around the security of the vital infrastructures modern societies depend on. These are exactly the pressure points on which any adversary would be able to inflict painful effects before any war but would also represent premier targets that play a decisive role in a hot conflict.
Brilliant!😊🌷
I wonder if there's a prior set of questions worth asking. If defensive capability is largely emergent, then procurement and funding are only part of the picture. The adaptive substrate that produces engineers, healthy workforces, innovation, resilient infrastructure, institutional learning and public trust may ultimately be just as important to national defence as the defence budget itself. It suggests defence resilience is inherently a cross-domain question rather than one confined to defence policy alone.
Excellent piece Tom.
I truly hope Andy Burnham finds time to read it......
It’s encouraging to read that you keep putting the geopolitical context around the security of the vital infrastructures modern societies depend on. These are exactly the pressure points on which any adversary would be able to inflict painful effects before any war but would also represent premier targets that play a decisive role in a hot conflict.