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Challenges For Europe’s Armoured Deterrence

Deterrence – the practice intended to discourage an adversary from taking unwanted actions, mainly concerning military aggression – has been the main subject of European defence policies. However, much of the ex-isting dialogue on deterrence is focused on space and cyber, which are considered to be the new domains of warfare. Although these domains complement the conventional ones, they do not replace them. Therefore, possessing reliable military capability at sea, in the air, and on land is still crucial to any deterrence strategy. Considered that, this Info Flash will fo-cus on land forces, specifically on the importance of armour for increasing both European military power and deterrence.

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10 December 2020
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Unmanned Ground Forces: The Emergence of a New Industry in Europe and its Future Implications

The recent decades have witnessed the rapid expansion of unmanned devices in the military sector, which have gotten more and more exposure in public debates and were increasingly used on the battlefield– from surveillance to drone strikes. The efficiency of this technology was once again proven during the short Nagorno-Karabakh war between September and November 2020, in which Azerbaijan deployed a great amount of drones against Armenia’s traditional forces, which heavily contributed to the latter’s defeat despite its easily-defendable mountainous geography.

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8 December 2020
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The British Army and the Technological Revolution: New Approaches in Military-Industrial Cooperation

The Army Industrial Engagement Framework (AIEF) was launched by the British Army in 2019 with the aim to develop a more effective relationship with industries throughout the procurement and development process. Since the world is rapidly changing, the military field -particularly land forces-, needs to adapt to ensure operational and strategic advantages to address threats. For instance, working closely with partners and industries, is necessary to succeed and profitable for all. The Army will be able to establish its future capability requirements, while industries will focus on the Army’s needs in its research and development programs, thus enhancing modernisation efforts.

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4 December 2020
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Drone Swarms – A Future Threat to Armed Forces?

With the exponential growth of Space-Air-Ground integrated network, swarm robotics, and Artificial Intelligence (AI), more and more countries have been moving towards a technology which enables a single pilot to control multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) at once – the drone swarming technology (Chen et.al., 2020a:278). Inspired by swarms of insects, drone swarms are built of multiple units of small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), which are able “to self-organise, to collaborate, and to complete multiple tasks together” (Joyce, 2020). This was largely influenced by military drones becoming more sophisticated and advanced, i.e. much smaller, lighter, cheaper and more jam-resistant, as they are capable to operate at low and medium altitudes. Consequently to these developments, drone swarms are now deployable both for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance (ISR), offensive and defensive missions as they have greater ISR and longer range and endurance.

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2 December 2020
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The European Arrest Warrant Figure in The Field of Terrorism

The first measures to counter terrorism were adopted in the 1960s and 1970s to deal with the first attacks that Europe suffered during that period, which led the first nine countries of the former European Economic Community (ECC) to become aware of their individual vulnerability to the new risks. However, it was the terrorist attacks of the 11th of September 2001 which triggered a collective reaction that led to the approval in a few days of the measures that had been blocked for years. This incident promoted the creation of a new legal framework to strengthen international cooperation in criminal matters within the European Union (EU). As a consequence, on the 13th of June 2002, the Council of the European Union adopted the decision on the European Arrest Warrants (EAW) and the surrender procedures between Member States which entered into force in 2004.

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26 November 2020