European Union Space Strategy for Security and Defense

Recently the European Union (EU) released its EU Space Strategy for Security and Defence. This document is centered on safeguarding space activities and enhancing the security of EU interests and capabilities in space through member-state cooperation. The document rightly recognizes growing threats against space assets, which enable modern civilization and warrant active protection and defense. […]

European Union Space Strategy for Security and Defense was originally published on Global Security Review.

December 18, 2023
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NEW-Bulgaria Asserts Own Security Needs Over Ukraine’s

According to a recent report, the Bulgarian president vetoed the transfer of 100 decommissioned armored vehicles to Ukraine on Monday, December 4, just weeks after Bulgaria’s parliament approved the handover of vehicles no longer needed by Bulgaria’s military. While North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) members like Bulgaria remain dedicated to supporting Ukraine’s fight to repel […]

NEW-Bulgaria Asserts Own Security Needs Over Ukraine’s was originally published on Global Security Review.

December 5, 2023
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Japanese Space Strategy: Deploying a Credible Deterrent

On August 31, 1998, North Korea fired a Taepodong 1 missile into Japanese airspace, taking allies and adversaries by surprise. Fifteen years later, China emerged as an even more ominous concern for Japan’s security. Following the summer 1998 incident, it took another quarter of a century for Japan to emancipate itself from pacifist policies, revamp […]

Japanese Space Strategy: Deploying a Credible Deterrent was originally published on Global Security Review.

December 5, 2023
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The Danger of Minimum Deterrence

Arms control advocates often propose a minimal deterrence strategy as a first step toward the abolition of nuclear weapons. Closely connected to a “no first use” policy, much of such thinking advocating these two positions flows from a mistaken view that nuclear weapons are not useful in deterring adversaries, irrelevant to new threats, and a […]

November 5, 2023
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