With all of Scandinavia now in the alliance—everything has to be connected on NATO’s new map.
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As the NATO summit rolls along here in DC, I'm happy to have contributed to a new report by Chatham House Russia and Eurasia Programme on Russian military regeneration and lessons from the Ukraine War. Link below. Three major lessons stand out to me from the maritime risk management perspective: 1. On blockades, predictability and stability matter. Blockades don't require naval presence to be effective or credible. They require the ability to generate instability and increased risk for shippers and insurers. Ukraine's biggest victory in the war is the restoration of relative stability in the western Black Sea, allowing it and its NATO partners to open an economic lifeline in the form of a massively successful grain transit corridor. Prior to this, they relied on the predictability granted by the Black Sea Grain Initiative. 2. There is risk in rushing to invest in naval drones. We don't publicly know the large N trend in Ukraine's success or failure rate with naval drones. Is it trending toward success, failure, or holding steady? If failure, then what Russian changes account for that? What is the proper technological and CONOPs response (ie. lethal autonomy)? All navies looking to invest in drone technology should be asking these questions before investing. 3. Russia has unfortunately excelled at attacking maritime critical infrastructure and ships in port. In the case of a future NATO/Russia conflict, this puts trans-Atlantic force flows at risk once they arrive in port in Europe. The risk can be mitigated by broadening the number of ports used, improving rapid onload/offload, and building resilience. My sincerest thanks to Mathieu Boulègue for including me with such a great group of researchers and analysts on this project.
Assessing Russian plans for military regeneration
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🚨New RUSI report, ‘An Asymmetric Approach to the Use of Maritime Forces in Competing with Russia’ by Dr Sidharth Kaushal and René Balletta, on how Allied maritime power can best contribute to competition with Russia, is out now! While considerable attention has been paid to how unwanted Russian actions in the maritime domain can be deterred, less has been paid to the maritime contribution to deterrence more broadly defined. Our new paper dives deeper into the discussions of how actions at sea can translate into strategic effects on land in the context of the European theatre. It outlines a strategy for how Allied maritime power could be employed to create costly capability requirements for Russia, to offset the country’s competitive edge in other domains. The key findings from the report include: ◾ Russia views the maritime domain as critical to the strategic balance. ◾The capabilities that Russia needs to perform both functions are among those which it will find most difficult to generate. ◾By investing in maritime capabilities such as long-range precision strike and operating at a higher tempo on Russia’s extended periphery, the members of NATO can impose opportunity costs on Russia’s military. Thank you to the Royal Navy Strategic Studies Centre for supporting this work, and you can head over to our website now to read the full report and its findings!
An Asymmetric Approach to the Use of Maritime Forces in Competing with Russia
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Si vis pacem, para bellum It is crucial that we secure our logistical lines ahead of any potential escalation from Russia. Rapid response and steadfast defense are vital to prevent Russian forces from entering NATO states. NATO exercises have simulated most of these deployment and communication lines, along with many others, for years. While the Telgraph's map is simplified and omits some key details (e.g., Germany's Bremerhaven as a key entry point; the DE-HU-RO route as another major pathway), it offers a solid overview of the main operational vectors in the event of a NATO-Russia conflict: Northeast, East, and Southeast. One of the main challenge, believe it or not, is mobility in Central and Eastern Europe. The region's underdeveloped rail and road infrastructure and the lack of an integrated transnational transport corridor (a "military Schengen") risks slowing down deployments— those who have followed General (ret.) Ben Hodges' analyses are well aware of this important issue. These are contingencies, but it's always wise to be prepared!
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In the future, the new Nordic unity caused by Finland and Sweden’s accessions will draw NATO’s political and military-strategic attention more toward the greater Nordic space, ranging from the Arctic over Scandinavia to the Baltic Sea area.
A New Nordic NATO?
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ABOARD KV BISON—In the chow hall of this hulking Norwegian Coast Guard patrol ship, a seasoned conscript sailor explains the plan to a half-dozen American visitors. The guests—U.S. government bureaucrats, congressional staffers, think tankers, and this reporter—will sail for four hours aboard the Bison from the service’s home port in Sortland to about 200 miles inside the Arctic Circle. Then, the guests will be lowered into small rescue boats and transported into the harbor at Andoya. If Russia were to challenge Norway, it might do so in a place like this, where 6,000-ton ships like Bison are too big to go into port. It’s a place where the Norwegian military once thought that, if the Cold War turned hot, it would be fighting alone for days until help from the United States and continental European allies arrived. For parts of their history, three Nordic countries—Finland, Sweden, and Norway—were one country, united under the Swedish crown. Now, with Finland and Sweden having abandoned neutrality and joined their fellow Nordic countries Denmark, Norway, and Iceland in NATO, they want to fight together again—as if they were all one military. And NATO has to redraw its map to make their inlets, bays, seas, and territories into one area covered by Article 5, the alliance’s collective-defense pledge. “The Baltic Sea and the High North are so closely linked together that it’s basically one strategic theater operation, but with different directions,” said Gen. Eirik Kristoffersen, Norway’s chief of defense. “North in the high north, and to the east in the Baltic Sea.” But how to shrink all of that geography into one sweeping strategy? How to patrol such a vast area—from Russia’s bases in Kaliningrad, to the fjords, to ice-capped Svalbard, to the submarine internet cables that run across the Atlantic Ocean? Where to draw the line in the Baltic Sea between the Nordic countries and mainland Europe? On NATO’s new map, everything has to be connected. The alliance’s fledgling command in Norfolk, Virginia, which has the mission of fighting across the Atlantic, has to double its staff to put the new allies under one hat; it needs to figure out how far it can integrate the Nordic militaries into one fighting force; and Norway, Finland, and Sweden even need to reconfigure their roads that run in different directions to get thousands of troops into the fight when needed. “The question of Sweden and Finland joining NATO means, from a geostrategic point of view, that the North Atlantic, the High North, and the Baltic Sea are now tied together for the first time,” said Tobias Billström, Sweden’s foreign minister. “This is a major shift of geopolitical proportions.” Thanks to the Atlantic Council for helping to make this project possible. Here's "NATO's New Map," our latest in Foreign Policy on how the allies will connect Norway, Sweden, and Finland. READ MORE: https://lnkd.in/e_4mgWmu
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China defended the passage of a navy survey ship into its territorial waters off Japan's southwestern islands, describing it as "completely legitimate" and a right of transit under the U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning communicated this at a press conference. In response, Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi confirmed that Tokyo had lodged a protest with Beijing and would monitor Chinese military activities. This incident marks the 10th entry of a Chinese survey ship into Japanese waters off Kagoshima Prefecture since November 2021. The event follows Japan's recent confirmation of a Chinese military spy plane violating Japanese airspace, with Chinese officials asserting there is no intention to intrude into foreign territories. #AsiaRisk #GeopoliticalConflictandDisputes #Japan Follow us for daily updates on risk and operations in Asia! https://lnkd.in/gmcPsYWd
China says ship passage through Japan territorial waters "legitimate"
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For the successful convening of the NATO Summit in Washington, the following critical tip must be kept in mind.
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An interesting day comes to an end. 1) most asked question What is the front door to Nato. Or where to knock / ring the bell. 2) speed is of the essence Considering the threat, procurement need to be faster. 3) general observation The event was clearly needed to help the understanding between industry and nato.
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With more than 800 new miles of territory added to its eastern front since the accession of the new members, NATO's task of monitoring and patrolling is more difficult than ever. Uncrewed aircraft systems already play an important role in helping to defend the Alliance, and they are poised to increase the depth and breadth of that contribution across every operating environment https://lnkd.in/dwuc7u-v
Uncrewed Aircraft Will Ensure NATO's Readiness Now and for the Next 75 Years
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