TALLINN (Aftenposten): Estonia stopped a cyberattack against the country’s digital services in 2007. Now, the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence is situated in this little country in the East.
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Aurora 17, by far the biggest military exercise in Sweden since the early 1990s, has recently ended.
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On 25 September, the ICDS report “Russia’s Electronic Warfare Capabilities to 2025: Challenging NATO in Electromagnetic Spectrum” was presented at the international symposium taking place at the Aviation College in Tartu, Estonia.
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On September 26, ICDS held a public event for the launch of our latest report titled “Russia’s Electronic Warfare Capabilities to 2025: Challenging NATO in the Electromagnetic Spectrum.”
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Most recent commentary on Kim Jong-un’s reasoning to continue with his nuclear programme rarely fails to invoke (the rogue state’s lessons learned from) the examples of Muammar Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein.
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On 21-22 September 2017, Dr. Pauli Järvenpää, Senior Researcher at the ICDS, participated as a panelist in the 9th Annual Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) Forum in Washington, D.C. The 2017 Forum focused on the theme of Preserving Atlanticism in a Time of Change.
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As one of the leading Western analysts of Russian military developments, Roger McDermott, says “while Russia’s armed forces’ leadership remain very interested in military theory, they test and rehearse new approaches to warfare in strategic exercises”.
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Wall Street Journal interviewed Sven Sakkov for a story about Russia’s Zapad 2017 exercise and NATO’s precautionary measures.
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“ICDS’s study could not be more timely. This is a professional work that catalogues the seriousness of the threat without being unduly alarmist. It is fact based, from the detailed descriptions of Russian equipment and investment; through Moscow’s development of organisation and command structure; to accounts of training, tactics and operations. There is also a great discussion of Russian doctrine and how Russian electronic warfare fits into broader questions of cyber and psychological operations and how that convergence will further challenge NATO’s concepts and practices. I highly recommend this important work as the departure point for the Alliance rethinking and reshaping its response to a growing danger. ”
Gen. (ret.) Michael Hayden, former Director of the US National Security Agency and Central Intelligence Agency
On 13 September a group of scholars from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation visited ICDS.
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