Peter M. E. Volten, "Transatlantic Security, Defence and Strategy: Badly Needed Reforms," All Azimuth 4, No.1 (2015): 51-58. (original) (raw)

For my generation, security, defence and strategy were relatively easy to understand. Realism and Cold War logic prevailed vis-à-vis a pacifist and rather weak opposition. But then all of a sudden we had to adapt ourselves to post-Cold War circumstances. We tried, but with mixed results. What about our experiences in the former Yugoslavia and Afghanistan, not to mention Iraq or today, Ukraine? However, the next generation at the political helm will face an even more demanding job because of the sheer complexity of security and strategy and because of the need for some radical changes in our approaches to both of these concepts.

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