The diversification of threats, and the people behind them, are generating new challenges for the defence and security communities, and to society as a whole.

Trend: Future battlefields A trend indicates a direction of change in values and needs which is driven by forces and manifests itself already in various ways within certain groups...

Trend: Shift in the geopolitical landscape A trend indicates a direction of change in values and needs which is driven by forces and manifests itself already in various ways within certain...

Trend: Changing conflict causalities A trend indicates a direction of change in values and needs which is driven by forces and manifests itself already in various ways within certain...

Trend: Space becomes a new area of expansion A trend indicates a direction of change in values and needs which is driven by forces and manifests itself already in various...

Impact assessment of interlinkages between the megatrends: Changing security paradigm, Climate change and environmental degradation, Aggravating resource scarcity, Increasing significance of migration and Growing consumerism.

Environmental security is increasingly dominating national and international agendas, shifting defense and geopolitical paradigms. Worldwide, the number of displacements associated with natural disasters is considerably higher than that of those...

Although trans-border wars are increasingly rare, global peacefulness deteriorated for eight of the last twelve years, with 2019 being the first improvement since 2014, according to the 2019...

Cybersecurity has evolved into an unconventional warfare on a multidimensional, multilayered, and asymmetric battlespace. For instance, as cyber-weapons and unmanned sensors and vehicles are becoming key military elements, critical...

The combination of thought and feelings with the capability of new technologies and data availability became the most powerful weapon, available to almost anyone interested, increasing the potential of SIMAD (Single...