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Finland Adopts Cyber Security Strategy
On 24 January 2013, the Government adopted a resolution on Finland’s Cyber Security Strategy. The Strategy defines the key goals and guidelines which are used in responding to the threats against the cyber domain and which ensure its functioning. The President of the Republic and the Cabinet Committee on Foreign and Security Policy decided at [...]
Swedish Government Split Over Defence Spending
As the annual conference on Swedish security wound up in the northern community of Sälen, a crack within the center-right government seems to have emerged. Society and Defence, or “Folk och Försvaret” is the annual conference bringing together the Swedish security and defence policy community, from politicians and the military to non-governmental organizations, as well [...]
Pentagon Releases Western Hemisphere Defense Policy Statement
Defense Department officials today released a policy statement that explains how the defense strategic guidance announced in January will shape U.S. military engagement in the Western Hemisphere. “In the Western Hemisphere, a remarkable transformation has taken place. Countries are doing more than ever before to advance peace and security both within and beyond their borders,” [...]
Pentagon Official Explains Asia-Pacific Focus
The entire U.S. government has made a concerted effort to improve U.S.-China relations while implementing the tenets in the defense strategic guidance, a senior Pentagon official said here today. Speaking to an audience at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Kathleen Hicks, principal deputy undersecretary of defense for policy explained the U.S. military’s strategic [...]
US to take back seat in changing world order
A series of political transitions led by the Arab Spring uprisings are shifting the balance of world power with the United States set to play a less dominant role, a leading think-tank argued Thursday. The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) warned that the optimism of the 2011 revolutions in the Middle East had been [...]
Preserving U.S. National Security Interests Through a Liberal World Construct
The emergence of peer competitors, not terrorism, presents the greatest long-term threat to our national security. Over the past decade, while the United States concentrated its geopolitical focus on fighting two land wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, China has quietly begun implementing a strategy to emerge as the dominant imperial power within Southeast Asia and [...]
New Year, Same Old Pentagon – Doubts about new Defense Strategy
Nothing changes on New Year’s Day, including the Pentagon’s budget strategy. Last Thursday, President Barack Obama and Department of Defense (DoD) officials held a press conference to release the “Defense Strategic Review,” which will serve as a blueprint for reducing Pentagon spending in coming years. This public relations show repeatedly stressed the “unprecedented” and “exceptional” [...]
China criticises new US defense policy
Beijing said Monday that a new US defence strategy focused on countering China’s rising power was based on “groundless” charges, and insisted it posed no threat to any nation. President Barack Obama unveiled the strategy Thursday, calling for a leaner US military focused on countering China’s rising power and signalling a shift away from large [...]
DOD leaders: U.S. will remain world’s strongest military
The Defense Department’s new, 10-year strategy will ensure the U.S. remains the world’s strongest military power, DOD leaders emphasized in weekend interviews. In an interview with Bob Schieffer that aired Jan. 8 on the CBS news program “Face the Nation,” Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta and Joint Chiefs Chairman Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey said [...]
