Deterrence (het proberen af te schrikken van je tegenstander) is een begrip uit de tijd van de Koude Oorlog. Sinds 2014 is er weer veel aandacht voor dit onderwerp. In deze podcast: Waar komt deze hernieuwde interesse in deterrence vandaan? Wat houdt het niet-Westerse denken over deterrence …

In een lijvig proefschrift voorspelde Ingo Piepers dat in 2020 de Derde Wereldoorlog uitbreekt. Zijn onderzoek gebruikt natuurwetenschappelijke modellen en wetten om oorlogen te analyseren en te duiden, en Piepers meent dat er daarmee patronen en wetmatigheden zijn te ontdekken in menselijk gedrag …

Wat is de toegevoegde waarde van krijgswetenschappen? Juist in deze tijd, waarin oorlog niet ver weg is, is het van belang oorlog en oorlogvoering grondig te bestuderen. Bovendien is het Westen, inclusief Nederland, feitelijk al dertig jaar in oorlog, hoewel de gebruikte terminologie anders doet vermoeden. …

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International conflict resolution increasingly involves the use of non-military power and non-kinetic capabilities alongside military capabilities in the face of hybrid threats. In this book, counter-measures to those threats are addressed by academics with both practical and theoretical experience and …

The realm of strategy, to quote Lawrence Freedman, is one of bargaining and persuasion as well as threats and pressure, psychological as well as physical effects, and words as well as deeds. This is why strategy is the central political art. It is about getting more out of a situation than the starting …

This chapter addresses the remarkable disconnect between resilience literature and military theory. War puts high demands on the resilience of military organizations. Western militaries have adopted organizational and operational concepts to cope with the myriad challenges of violence, turbulence, uncertainty …

Overview of recent issues central to political, military, and academic debates about political and military exit strategies from conflicts and wars. One important concept is the supposed political military divide, time and again expressed in the dichotomy end states versus end dates.

During the peacekeeping operations in the 90s of the last century it became clear that the military instrument alone could not bring the solution, other actors were also required to solve the multidimensional problems. This meant that in addition to soldiers a range of actors in the crisis regions …