De Franse President Macron verklaarde de Navo “hersendood”, de OVSE wordt irrelevant genoemd en er klinken stemmen voor een Europees Leger. Met andere woorden, de Europese veiligheidsarchitectuur staat er blijkbaar slecht voor. Dit komt ogenschijnlijk ook door de onduidelijkheid of de EU en NAVO complementaire, …

Vorig jaar promoveerde kolonel Han Bouwmeester op het proefschrift Krym Nash, over moderne Russische misleiding tijdens oorlogvoering. Hij legt in deze podcast uit wat hybride conflictvoering is en hoe dit door Rusland wordt ingezet. Desinformatie blijkt in hybride conflictvoering een grote rol te spelen. …

De missie naar Uruzgan, Afghanistan was voor de Nederlandse krijgsmacht de grootste missie na de Koude Oorlog: 1200 troepen, een budget van 320 miljoen euro voor 2 jaar. Mirjam Grandia onderzocht hoe deze militaire operatie tot stand kwam en welke invloed civiele en militaire actoren op de besluitvorming …

In recent years, there has been a large increase in the use of uncrewed attack aircraft, or attack drones, in the Yemen conflict. At the same time, the flight endurance and payload capabilities of these uncrewed aerial vehicles seem to have increased significantly. This article presents a flight performance …

In 2017 NATO initiated Enhanced Forward Presence (eFP) in the Baltics to deter Russia. While most studies analyse eFP from the perspective of NATO or the troop contributing countries, this chapter addresses the question how the host nations, i.e. in this contribution Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, perceive …

Since the introduction of India’s cold start and Pakistan’s full spectrum deterrence doctrines, the subcontinental deterrence landscape has been characterised by strong cross-domain dynamics. In extremis, if both states adhere to the threats issued in their doctrines a Pakistan-supported militant attack …

The deterrence of non-state actors is a relatively understudied and not particularly well-understood aspect of deterrence studies. This chapter contributes to the emerging body of knowledge on this matter by coining the idea of localised deterrence. Based on a discussion of counterinsurgency theory it …

This chapter examines the use of deterrence by President Putin of the Russian Federation against potential democratic revolts. It combines insights from the literatures on democratic revolutions and social movements on the one hand and deterrence and coercion on the other. This exploratory research sketches …

Russian disinformation has thus far proven to be unconvincing for most Dutch target audiences. This is the conclusion of the present chapter. Information and disinformation have become effective weapons in international politics. This is part of a development where the weapons and concepts used in deterrence …

Commonly used game and decision theoretic models fail to explain the empirics of deterrence. This has unjustly led many theorists to criticize the (rationality and other) assumptions underpinning of such models. No serious game theorist will contend that his theoretic model will possibly take account …