Thomas Frear highlights the poorly understood escalatory potential of modern cyber operations; arguing that the continued integration of the cyber domain with the conventional and nuclear domains has substantially increased the possibility of miscalculation and unintended escalation.
With the tools of space warfare spreading, how do we deter an adversary from attacking valuable and essential space infrastructure? Bleddyn Bowen, Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Leicester, provides five general ground rules for strategic thought.
We have crossed over to a new nuclear era in which cyber capabilities transform the nuclear risks.
Reducing and eliminating nuclear risks is an existential common interest for all nations.
This ELN report investigates how a Russia-NATO conflict could break out, unfold and be terminated. Based on this analysis, the report makes a set of recommendations to increase military stability and reduce the threat of inadvertent escalation.
To examine the implications of the nuclear ban treaty, the ELN has brought together contributions from a distinguished group of nuclear policy and arms control experts who present and analyse national and institutional attitudes towards the ban treaty and assess whether these are likely to change over time. The aim is to encourage a better understanding of the underlying motives and objectives of the treaty as well as the rationale of those who still remain cautious or hostile.