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The region of South East Europe (SEE), which is home to both NATO and Partnership for Peace (PfP) countries, serves as an important corridor between Europe and the Middle East, North Africa, and the Caucasus. In recent years, however, SEE has also experienced high levels of cross-border, military and defense-related challenges in the form of migration, smuggling, terrorism, and cyber threats. Furthermore, the use of the new information environment (IE) to further extremism in SEE and elsewhere in NATO and PfP countries has had far-reaching command and control (C2) implications for the Alliance. A collaborative interdisciplinary, international and regional approach is clearly needed to adequately assess and address these hybrid threats.
Presentations and discussions covered the following areas of military and defense aspects of cross-border threats: terrorism and violent extremism, cyber issues, weapons trafficking, academic and other cooperative efforts, behavioral and organizational assessments, border and criminal institutional challenges, models of development, technological and cyber solutions, cooperation mechanisms, research models being employed at the government level to assess hybrid threats, hands-on technical demonstrations, as well as case-study presentations on national and cooperative efforts. Finally, ample time for break-out sessions facilitated open dialogue among speakers and participants focused on problem solving and partnership development to yield the best input. Given time constraints, some excellent presentations unfortunately do not appear in this book. What follows is a brief summary of their research.
This paper explores what armed forces can do, should do, must do, and should not do, regarding border security and domestic contingencies. It provides historical examples to demonstrate the twin phenomenon of the militarization of civilian functions and the civilianization of military support in multiple countries. It argues these trends are increasing due to limited resources, public will, efficacy, and to new emerging threats including cyber. It also demonstrates how these issues are relevant to border security and migrant operations. The paper delineates and examines the six basic functions of defense support: a) emergency and disaster relief, b) law enforcement, c) special security events, d) essential services, e) counterinsurgency, and f) civil disturbances. It then concludes by forwarding a set of criteria for policy and military leaders to employ when determining whether and to what extent to use armed forces in defense support of these six functions. They include legality, lethality, risk, readiness, cost, appropriateness, capacity, and unique capability.
This paper explores the challenges of attaining Command and Control (C2), required for success in military, defense, and humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HA/DR) operations in current information environment (IE). It presents definitions of C2 and IE followed by a summary of Information age-trends that impact these operations. It then surveys some IE technological tools and how they have been exploited by adversaries. An examination of how the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has evolved to adapt its C2 architecture to varying crises ensues. Policy recommendations include: 1) adjustments to existing C2 architectures; 2) harnessing the role of transnational corporations; 3) recognizing a new theoretical paradigm wherein all actors can collaborate, compete, and conflict simultaneously on different topics; 4) developing networks, despite different security priorities; 5) developing a networked, interdisciplinary, information threat sharing center; 6) advocating digital fluency, digital literacy, cyber hygiene, and IE-awareness; 7) encouraging definitions and thresholds at national, regional, and NATO levels; 8) utilizing social network analysis cautiously to prevent data biases; 9) encouraging training and exercising at local, national, and international levels; and 10) applying other national and regional solutions.
In the paper that follows, several cross-border military and defense threats will be explored, particularly in view of UNICRI's role in advancing action-oriented research in the fields of crime prevention and criminal justice. Confronted by criminals who constantly find new ways of exploiting people and goods, the international community must remain at the forefront of identifying innovative responses to crimes affecting global security. As such, the present paper aims to contribute to the existing body of literature on current efforts to combat organized crime, illicit trafficking, terrorism, chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear risks as well as the misuse of technology, including artificial intelligence, and robotics.
This article describes the development and components of the Estonian Cyber Defense Unit or Küber-Kaitseliit, a voluntary force in the Estonian Defense League. It is distinct from the National Guard and serves as a force multiplier to support other military and commercial sectors of society as needed. The paper argues the key to its success is to invest into both technical and human factors and provide a well-considered legal framework that provides sufficient structure without inadvertently hampering flexibility and response required in successful cyber defense. It also posits that another critical element is to engage in a whole-of-government and whole-of-society approach that includes collaboration and exercising with regional and international partners. Finally, it advocates for ingenuity and creativity as essential elements in finding solutions to address significant threats with limited resources.
State-run agencies are responsible for dealing with migration of any kind. However, the current wave of migrants into Europe transiting through the Balkan peninsula is not only considered an issue of national interest, but also one of wider European security. This paper discusses how the land-locked transit area of the Republic of Serbia has addressed the complex of issues involved with this recent migration. It examines the laws and acts that have been developed, the role of crime, human rights issues as well as functional complications for the military and police. Implications for broader defense and military aspects of border security in Europe are highlighted throughout.
This paper discusses a distributed, multi-platform architecture of geographic information system (GIS) suitable for use in a variety of civil and military scenarios. Traditionally, GIS was seen a as a monolithic and platform-dependent application; as such, it was used by rather small group of professionals. With the development of computer hardware and availability of geospatial data in recent years, GIS evolved and adapted to new environments. Greater availability has led to its increased use in multiple areas. What was reserved for small group of professionals in the past, has now become available worldwide, using Internet on personal computers and mobile devices. This paper focuses on architecture specifications that allows distribution of geospatial data and functions to different hardware and software platforms. It does so by discussing the GiNis GIS framework and a GIS-based application for the mitigation of border security threats in Serbia, the Border Security System (BSS). Both were developed by the University of Niš. Other complementary tools that are used with this application are also detailed. The complex structure of armed conflict entails a variety of GIS user needs and profiles. Because of that, the paper will focus on defining roles and possible scenarios from the viewpoint of South East Europe (SEE) border security threats.
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