How can systemic perspectives on defence capability development be strengthened?

Liwång, Hans; Andersson, Kent; Bang, Martin; Malmio, Irja; Tärnholm, Therese

doi:10.1080/14702436.2023.2239722

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“…According to Ashwin (2022), Weda, Rahman, Samad, Gunawan, & Fitriani (2022), education contributes to social harmony and reduces the internal conflicts. Liwång, Andersson, Bang, Malmio, & Tärnholm (2023) state that education is essential for adapting to new technological advancements that, in turn, facilitate development of military capabilities, cyber defenses, and intelligence capabilities. Also, education is beneficial for public health system since it raises awareness about healthcare practices, disease prevention, and emergency response (Alam et al, 2022;Brown et al, 2022), and thus forms healthy population that is more resilient to changes and stress.…”

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The Role of Higher Education for Ensuring National Security in Ukraine

2024

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Education is a strategic tool; therefore, the study of the potentials of higher education for ensuring national security is very important, particularly when threats are increasing. The research objective is to reveal the role of higher education for national security and to present the effective educational practices related to its securitization. The qualitative methodology was applied (contextual understanding method, systematic generation of theories, content analysis, interviews, focus groups, and observations) to gather in-depth information, to examine the contextual factors of securitization, and to verify the efficiency of educational practices. Over 70 recent scientific works were selected to evaluate the problem objectively from the point of view of emerging threats. The study was conducted among 134 participants involved in the field of higher education. It resulted in the analysis of various approaches to defining higher education in the context of national security; outlining functions of higher education in peace and war time; and verification of educational practices used to implement securitization of higher education during the war. The findings showed that securitization of higher education may be implemented due to the following educational practices: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics education, strategic talent development, Research and Development, international collaboration, crisis response training, national security scholarships, simulation-based learning, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality, cybersecurity training, online learning, remote training, Big Data, e-learning, secure communication, drone technology training, machine learning and artificial intelligence. The outcomes can be applied within the educational institutions to improve the educational process and enhance national security.

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The Role of Higher Education for Ensuring National Security in Ukraine

2024

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“…The framework has proven to be a robust approach since it can add indicators depending on the contextual background [5]. This study addresses energy security from Energies 2023, 16, 6627 2 of 16 the perspective of comprehensive national defence and especially the interaction between military and civilian aspects of defence. Comprehensive national defence is here based on the description by Berzina [12] and here understood in the European setting as a defence concept governed by two basic principles: the whole-of-society and whole-of-government approaches for defence.…”

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“…When addressing and preparing for national defence, there is a possibility for the national defence force to affect decisions on infrastructure and to adapt the defence concept and the system for comprehensive national defence to the specific and possibly unique circumstances the national infrastructures provide. However, for such considerations, defence capability, and especially national comprehensive defence capability, must be understood as a system comprised of several different organisations, doctrines, and technology components [13][14][15][16]. Due to this, change must be analysed on a system level to fully understand the effect.…”

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Future National Energy Systems, Energy Security and Comprehensive National Defence

Liwång

2023

Energies

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This study addresses energy security from the perspective of comprehensive national defence, especially the interaction between military and civilian aspects of defence. Civilian infrastructure is seldom configured or developed with defence in focus. Therefore, with the aim of facilitating a system-level discussion, this study takes two steps. The first step is to develop indicators for assessing energy security in a comprehensive national defence setting. The second step is to qualitatively assess the effect on energy security from three different energy development scenarios related to either the development of local solar, wind, and bio-power production and storage; an increased resilience of the high voltage electric power transmission system; or an increase in large hydropower and nuclear power production. The study identifies that there are positive systemic effects of increasing the diversity of the energy system, especially for solutions that do not need external supply and do not risk creating large-scale effects if attacked. However, these changes to the energy system also lead to local changes that affect warfighting and defence. Such changes can be met by updated tactics and technology that would also give the defending force an advantage.

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