Wide Angle Defense & Security
Articles and news briefs providing in-depth coverage of the latest developments in the global defense and security sector, in the context of the EUROSATORY 2024 exhibition themes: high-intensity, command/intelligence and space, non-contact warfare, support, securing major events, and assistance to populations.
Experts – industrial and institutional players, intergovernmental organizations, researchers, etc. – share their points of view to shed light on the determinants and major international issues of the Defense and Security sector: the “hot” issues of the moment, the technologies and challenges of the next decade…
Offensive Computer Network Operations (CNO)
have been a part of electronic warfare for over three decades. Consisting of the exploitation of system weaknesses for espionage – Computer Network Exploitation (CNE) – or damage – Computer Network Attack (CNA), they
offer a tactical advantage to states which invest in their development.
Dr. Brake is an independent expert on maritime security, a research fellow at the Center for Advanced Security, Strategy and Integration Studies (CASSIS) at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University of Bonn, and a reserve naval officer at the German Institute for Defense and Strategic Studies (GIDS) of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg. In this article, he explains the evolution of German defence strategy through the prism of the transformation of naval missions. He expresses his concern that the fleet might become overly focused on NATO's northern flank, in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, to the detriment of other crucial missions such as the protection of critical maritime infrastructure and the increasingly threatened freedom of navigation.
- High intensity, Sustainability, e-conferences iDeaS
- Sustainability, e-conferences iDeaS
The return of high-intensity conflict in Europe is having a major impact on the way NATO countries are reconsidering their military stockpiles policies.
During the iDeaS by COGES EVENTS e-conference entitled "Military stockpiles challenges within NATO?" held on March 21, three international experts looked into this specific issue.
- Sustainability, High intensity warfare
General Christian Jouslin de Noray, central director of the Structure intégrée du maintien en condition opérationnelle des matériels terrestres (SIMMT) (Integrated Land Equipment Maintenance Structure) since 2020, gives us his vision of an incremental land equipment support strategy and a realistic inventory policy that will enable our armies to acquire the industrial depth that is essential for any high-intensity scenario.
While the 2024-2030 Military Program Law has just been introduced – on April 4th – to the Council of Ministers by the Minister of the Armed Forces, Sébastien Lecornu, this brief highlights the hearing that the latter conducted before the Senate Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on February 28th, 2023.