Category: Security policy

Hubs of global maritime trade

Hubs of global maritime trade

Gepostet von | 27 Jan 2025 | , , | 0

Straits connect oceans with each other. These maritime choke points are interfaces between international trade and security policy - and therefore have geostrategic significance. Maritime choke points - or straits and strategic waterways - form central hubs in the global maritime transport network. They act as essential transit routes for international trade and as strategic control points in the geopolitical order. Around two thirds of maritime trade is transported via these strategically important waterways, making them essential to the functioning of the global economy. The blockade of the Suez Canal and the heightened tensions in the Strait of Hormuz have highlighted the vulnerability of these maritime corridors and the far-reaching...

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Promoting national expertise

Promoting national expertise

Gepostet von | 16 Jan 2025 | , , | 0

Once again, naval shipbuilding has been declared a key national technology. However, this decision also creates obligations. With the National Security and Defence Industry Strategy (SVI Strategy) adopted by the Federal Cabinet on 4 December 2024, the concept of national key technologies, which has been known since the first government paper of this kind in 2015, has been confirmed once again. This is good news, as Germany is doing what other European countries - such as France and Sweden - have already implemented before us: In the area of security and defence-related skills in our domestic industry, we are defining areas that we can access marineforum digital+ Are you already a registered user? Now...

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Let's go, 2025!

Let's go, 2025!

Gepostet von | 15 Jan 2025 | , , | 0

The year 2025 has begun and we are eagerly awaiting major changes. In America, Donald Trump will be president for the second time, there will be new elections here and the situation in the Middle East will have to stabilise again after the major upheavals of recent months. All of this is cause for both concern and hope. An old adage applies here: Every man is the architect of his own fortune. Are we ready to take up the blacksmith's hammer with strong arms? Do we want to make our own luck or do we want to do what others tell us to do? To set our own course, we need to know where we stand. How...

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It was just an accident - wasn't it?

It was just an accident - wasn't it?

Gepostet von | 27 Dec 2024 | , , | 0

The destruction of the Balticconnector gas pipeline still raises questions a year later. And China is preventing clarification with just a few words. It has been over a year since a sudden drop in pressure was recorded in the Balticconnector gas pipeline between Finland and Estonia on 8 October 2023. Parallel data cables - 60 and 20 miles apart - were also damaged in a corresponding time window. A year earlier, the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines further west in the Baltic Sea off Bornholm had already been blown up. As with Nord Stream 2022, the emerging suspicion of sabotage was confirmed in 2023,...

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How a childish idea catches on

How a childish idea catches on

Gepostet von | 24 Dec 2024 | , , | 0

In a bureaucracy, few things are as persistent as bureaucracy. Now the flood of bureaucracy is to be reduced with the help of bureaucratic de-bureaucratisation processes. The idea came from an office administrator at the Ministry of Defence working from home. She was fed up with emails and her nagging three-year-old, who asked how much money mum got for each email. Bingo! What if you made administrative work subject to a fee? Administration, staff work, rules of procedure? It should ensure standardised, regulated action in the management of authorities. This can be as complicated as you like, and terribly compartmentalised - broken down into processes. They are also called processes, who wants to proceed? In terms of content, decisions on matters of principle, draft legislation and the management of...

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