The occasional papers of the Centre for Historical Analysis and Conflict Research.
Ares & Athena – Issue 16 – NATO Today – UK and NATO today
The UK remains powerful. The UK has an unparalleled network. We are a Nuclear Power and a permanent member of the UN Security Council,...
Ares & Athena – Issue 16 – NATO Today – Terrorism Future Trends
With the military defeat of so-called Islamic State in 2018, many experts and commentators expected the threat from terrorism to decline. But recent events...
Ares & Athena – Issue 16 – NATO Today – Strengthening C2 and...
Just over 70 years ago, The Washington Treaty was signed by the 12 founding nations at the Departmental Auditorium of the State Department in...
Ares & Athena – Issue 16 – NATO Today – Russian Challenges to...
While NATO’s northern and eastern flanks usually receive the bulk of strategic attention, rather less tends to be said about the southern flank. Although...
Ares & Athena – Issue 16 – NATO Today – Russian Challenges to NATO...
Russia has become central to NATO’s thinking. The statement following the 2018 Brussels summit noted that “Russia’s aggressive actions, including the threat and use...
Ares & Athena – Issue 16 – NATO Today – NATO The Enduring...
NATO has proven its ability to adapt to changing circumstances many times over its history. Since the Wales Summit in 2014 NATO has turned...
Ares & Athena – Issue 16 – NATO Today – Introduction
NATO, we are repeatedly told by politicians and the denizens of both the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Ministry of Defence, sits at...
Ares & Athena – Issue 16 – NATO Today – Cyber Threats to...
I have been asked to address the subject of cyber threats to NATO. I interpret that as not just threats to NATO as an...
Ares & Athena – Issue 16 – NATO Today – Cohesion and...
Today’s strategic environment is characterised by persistent competition between states, most of all between the West, Russia and China, but also more broadly as...
Operationalising Deterrence in the 21st Century
"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting" – deterrence in the land environment is an ageold concept and recalling...