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Elisabeth Braw

  • Monday, 12 August, 2024
    Cyber warfare
    Exercises can prepare companies for the threat of attacks by hostile states

    Governments and the private sector should co-operate on action in national crises

    A French gendarme patrols next to a SNCF railway security officer at a railway station
  • Sunday, 26 May, 2024
    Asia maritime tensions
    Missing Baltic buoys mark out maritime border faultlines

    Russia and China are challenging the global system of national boundaries at sea and in inland waters

  • Sunday, 21 April, 2024
    Scandinavia
    What Norway’s Home Guard can teach us about preparing for emergencies

    The government is using well-trained civilians to protect energy installations against Russian probing

    Members of the Norwegian Home Guard take part in a military exercise
  • Monday, 29 January, 2024
    Aerospace & Defence
    How a skills shortage could hit Ukraine’s battlefield

    Wars could erupt, unfold and be lost because we lack enough skilled defence workers to make ammunition

    A welder in a mask repairs military vehicles
  • Thursday, 23 November, 2023
    Utilities
    Chinese-made wind farms could become a new sabotage risk

    These turbines cost less than half the average price of those manufactured elsewhere

    Offshore wind turbines silhouetted against a dramatic sunset
  • Thursday, 5 October, 2023
    Political espionage
    Why Russian and Chinese spy scandals are a threat to us all

    As western governments increasingly call out foreign spies, the risks to travellers in Moscow and Beijing will grow

    Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor disembark from a plane in Canada after being released
  • Thursday, 10 August, 2023
    Sweden
    How tolerance makes nations vulnerable

    The disinformation surrounding Koran burnings in Sweden bear out philosopher Karl Popper’s warnings

    A woman protester wearing sunglasses and a hijab holds a Koran
  • Saturday, 29 April, 2023
    Shipping
    How surreptitious shipping is helping Russia

    Vessels masking their transmission signals explain the surprising resilience of Moscow’s wartime economy

  • Thursday, 9 February, 2023
    Finland
    We can all learn from the Finnish approach to defence

    The country has instilled a national will to protect in the majority of its citizens — this is no mean feat

    Conscripts take part in a military training at the Karelia Brigade Pahkajärvi firing range in Vekaranjärvi, north of Kääpälä, Finland on May 19 2022
  • Wednesday, 30 November, 2022
    Technology sector
    The 6G showdown with China is coming

    Huawei is gearing up its new-generation telecoms technology. Will Ericsson and others be able to compete?

    Customers wearing facemasks use Huawei smartphones in China
  • Tuesday, 1 November, 2022
    Political espionage
    Norway’s Russian spy scandal should be a warning to all universities

    The suspected infiltration of Tromsø’s Arctic research centre highlights the hostile state threat to academia

    The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø. Academic institutions that are active in defence and security will now have to become even more judicious in their hiring
  • Tuesday, 26 July, 2022
    Military technology
    Tech experts need defence training for Nato’s race against China

    Innovation is found in the start-up community, but these companies have minimal interest in national security

    Crew members onboard French long-range maritime patrol aircraft Atlantique 2 on its way from Souda military air base on Crete towards the Black sea last week
  • Monday, 13 June, 2022
    Food security
    Insurers will have to bear the risk of getting grain out of Ukraine

    They need to be convinced that any naval corridor established in the Black Sea will be safe

    A Russian soldier guards a pier, with grain storage in the background, at the Mariupol seaport
  • Wednesday, 20 April, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    Insurers are scrambling to update the definition of war

    The Ukraine crisis demonstrates how far businesses have become a target for sanctions or retaliation

    KFC and McDonald’s restaurants in Moscow last week. The companies suspended their business in Russia
  • Monday, 14 February, 2022
    Cyber Security
    Modern warfare is catching companies in its crossfire

    States are increasingly using IP theft, business acquisitions and cyber attacks to harm adversaries

    Börje Ekholm, Ericsson’s chief executive
  • Tuesday, 11 January, 2022
    Misinformation
    Psy-ops are a crucial weapon in the war against disinformation

    Sweden’s new psychological operations agency will attack falsehoods that spread online like a virus

    A person uses a laptop computer with illuminated English and Russian Cyrillic character keys in Moscow, Russia
  • Thursday, 9 December, 2021
    War in Ukraine
    Russia’s ‘greyzone’ aggression is already harming Ukraine

    By frightening investors, Moscow’s troop build-up can hurt Kyiv even if it stops short of full-scale invasion

    Ukrainian soldiers patrol the line of separation from pro-Russian rebels near Katerinivka, Donetsk region, Ukraine
  • Monday, 5 July, 2021
    Cyber Security
    Older workers are a secret weapon against cyber attacks

    The value of employees who began their careers before the digital age is underestimated

  • Sunday, 16 May, 2021
    Globalisation
    Geopolitics spells the demise of the global chief executive

    As tensions between rival countries rise, borderless business becomes more difficult

    India-born Microsoft chief, Satya Nadella, addresses a summit. Executives’ supposed allegiance is to their shareholders but, as geopolitical confrontation intensifies, the matter of national allegiance will resurface
  • Sunday, 21 March, 2021
    Management consulting
    Military knowhow can help business navigate a hostile world

    Understanding how countries jockey for power by using the private sector as a proxy requires specialist skills

    Jim Mattis, a retired US general who can bring the military concept of Vuca (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity) to company leadership
  • Tuesday, 5 January, 2021
    Cyber warfare
    The temptation for cyber attackers to become short-sellers

    A lucrative and new field of criminal gain has opened up for sophisticated hackers

    The vulnerabilities of governments and companies are increasingly exposed
  • Tuesday, 18 August, 2020
    Aerospace & Defence
    US interest in German space start-ups is not rocket science

    Berlin needs to do more to support its homegrown industry if it wants to retain talent

    Isar Aerospace is named after the river that flows through Munich as homage to the city becoming Europe’s space start-up hub
  • Sunday, 31 May, 2020
    Corporate governance
    Companies should start showing more national loyalty

    This crisis has taught us that governments would achieve more with some goodwill from business

    LUTON, ENGLAND - SEPTEMBER 19: A Ryanair passenger plane lands on the runway at Luton airport on September 19, 2017 in Luton, England. Passengers are facing severe travel disruption after the airline has announced it will be cancelling 40-50 flights every day over the coming six weeks, due to an error in their planning of pilot holidays. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)
  • Wednesday, 27 November, 2019
    Cyber Security
    Cyber attacks are a new front in assessing corporate risk

    As ‘acts of war’ proliferate and become harder to define, who will insure businesses?

    ATLANTIC OCEAN - SEPTEMBER 1: In this NOAA GOES-East satellite handout image, Hurricane Dorian, now a Cat. 5 storm, tracks towards the Florida coast taken at 13:20Z September 1, 2019 in the Atlantic Ocean. A hurricane warning is in effect for much of the northwestern Bahamas as it gets hit with 175 mph winds. According to the National Hurricane Center Dorian is predicted to hit the U.S. as a Category 4 storm. (Photo by NOAA via Getty Images)
  • Monday, 7 October, 2019
    Foreign direct investment
    Cutting-edge tech takeovers are a strategic threat to the west

    Governments should be more vigilant about foreign acquisitions in critical sectors

    Kuka AG 'LBR iiwa', left, and 'KR3 Agilus' robotic arms assemble a miniature car during a demonstration at the RoboDEX (Robot Development & Application Expo) in Tokyo, Japan, on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2019. The business expo on robots and its development technologies runs through to Jan. 18. Photographer: Kiyoshi Ota/Bloomberg
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