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Abstract: The integration of generative artificial intelligence into officer education represents a significant innovation that challenges doctrines, practices, and pedagogical strategies. At the same time, it demands a balance between the potential of generative artificial intelligence and the cadets’ autonomy to critically analyse and correlate the knowledge transmitted. In this exploratory-descriptive study, a questionnaire was… Read more →
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Abstract: Beyond their socio-economic implications, disruptive technologies influence all instruments of state power, especially the military. Artificial intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and autonomous systems are transforming traditional ways of thinking, leadership concepts, and processes, necessitating new approaches to prepare military decision-makers at all levels of command for a complex, technology-driven environment. This article explores… Read more →
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Abstract: NATO has spent three years building the technical scaffolding to field autonomous systems across its member states, and has largely succeeded at interoperability, defined as an engineering property: allied machines can operate as one. It has not resolved a harder property of authority. When an autonomous system proposes a lethal action faster than a… Read more →
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Abstract: Growing economic asymmetry between inexpensive offensive systems and costly defensive architectures is reshaping escalation dynamics in contemporary warfare. Focusing on the period from 2022 to the present, the analysis examines case studies from the Russia-Ukraine war, Iran’s regional strategy in the Middle East, and recent India-Pakistan crises in South Asia. Drawing on insights from… Read more →
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Abstract: Germany’s official security discourse has increasingly embraced the concept of integrated security. The 2023 National Security Strategy, the Operational Plan for Germany, the institutionalisation of Heimatschutz, the Bundeswehr reserve network, and the country’s strong voluntary civil-protection culture all point in the same direction: security is increasingly understood as a whole-of-state and whole-of-society problem. Yet… Read more →
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Abstract: The war in Ukraine demonstrates that drone warfare is a potential catalyst for profound transformation. Unmanned aerial systems have reshaped battlefield awareness, accelerated decision-making, and redistributed authority to lower tactical levels. This shift challenges traditional hierarchical command structures and exposes tensions between doctrine and operational reality within NATO and EU armed forces. Despite ongoing… Read more →
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Louise I. Shelley, (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2014). pp. 370. Louise Shelley’s Dirty Entanglements arrives as a landmark contribution to transnational security studies. Drawing on more than fifteen years of field research across six continents, Shelley, University Professor at George Mason University’s Schar School and founder of TraCCC, advances a deceptively simple but analytically… Read more →
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Abstract: Maritime chokepoints are commonly portrayed as critical vulnerabilities capable of triggering systemic disruption across the global economy. The concentration of trade and energy flows through corridors such as the Suez Canal, the Strait of Hormuz, Bab el-Mandeb, the Strait of Malacca, and the Panama Canal has reinforced concerns regarding the fragility of contemporary globalisation.… Read more →
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Abstract: An increasing number of contemporary conflicts appear to resist decisive resolution under specific structural conditions. This argument does not suggest that all wars follow the same trajectory. Rather, it identifies specific structural configurations under which decisive outcomes become less likely. For the purposes of this article, “strategic closure” refers to the production of a… Read more →
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Abstract: The international system is undergoing a transformation that extends beyond conventional great-power rivalry. What is changing is not simply the distribution of power among states, but the mechanisms through which power is exercised, sustained, and constrained. Assumptions that shaped much of the post-Cold War era economic interdependence as a stabilising force, globalisation as a… Read more →
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