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Strategic Priorities & International Security

The European Air Shield Initiative: Centralised Air Defence Procurement and Industrial Realignment
How Germany’s EASI framework is reshaping European air and missile defence, supply chains and EU–NATO financial coordination
The Deep Intelligence Value Chain: Overcoming European Strategic Bottlenecks
This analysis maps the essential phases of the Deep Intelligence chain against the primary industrial and financial bottlenecks facing the European…
Protection of Critical Infrastructure and National Resilience as a NATO–EU Strategic Priority
Strategic rationale and political anchoring
Nuclear Deterrence, Safety and NC3 Resilience as a Strategic Priority in NATO, the European Union and Allied Architectures
Strategic rationale and political anchoring
Climate Security, Energy Transition and Green Defence as a Strategic Priority in Euro-Atlantic Security
Strategic rationale and political anchoring
Russia as a “Persistent but Manageable” Threat: How U.S. Strategy Is Reshaping Europe’s Defence-Industrial Demand
The 2026 US National Defense Strategy frames European defence-industrial scale as a prerequisite for sustaining deterrence against Russia.
The Baltic Hegemony: The Strategic Transition to a Unified NATO Maritime Lake
Technical analysis of the Baltic Sea as a NATO operational space, focusing on Nordic integration, Russian A2/AD containment, and subsea infrastructure…
Warsaw, the Pivot of Europe: Polish Rearmament and the New Strategic Centrality
Poland is emerging as Europe’s defence centre of gravity through record military spending, logistical primacy for Ukraine, and integrated deterrence…
The 'Phase Transition' of the International Order
The easing of transatlantic tensions observed at Davos should not be interpreted as a restoration of the previous equilibrium.
Article 3 and Civil Resilience in NATO Deterrence
Civil preparedness and societal resilience as foundations of NATO deterrence and collective defence in an era of hybrid and systemic threats.
Celestial Lines of Communication: Applying Julian Corbett to the Orbital Domain
A strategic assessment of the parallels between classical maritime theory and spacepower, focusing on the protection of global information flows and…
Greenland at the Core of Arctic Deterrence
Why control of the GIUK Gap, early-warning systems, and Arctic infrastructure makes Greenland indispensable to NATO’s military balance in the Third…
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