Guest Paper Series | NATO’s Digital Capabilities

This new HCSS Guest Paper Series explores key aspects of NATO's digital capabilities and how the Alliance can prepare for the demands of a rapidly evolving digital battlespace. The four expert contributions address cloud computing, lessons from Ukraine's battlefield innovations, gaps in NATO's current C4ISR infrastructure, and China's AI-enabled command capabilities. Building on these expert insights, a new HCSS Capstone paper by Hans Horan, Sofia Romansky, and Davis Ellison outlines a strategic blueprint to modernise NATO’s collective digital capabilities and C4ISR systems across Europe, ahead of the 2025 NATO Summit.

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Benedetta Girardi and Alisa Hoenig author chapter in book Decoding the Chessboard of Asian Geopolitics

Strategic analyst Benedetta Girardi and former assistant analyst Alisa Hoenig have authored a chapter in the newly published book 'Decoding the Chessboard of Asian Geopolitics: Asian Powerplay in East and Southeast Asia, The Global North, and Other Emerging Issues.' Their chapter, titled 'Navigating Geopolitics: Europe’s Evolving Connections with South and Southeast Asia', explores the dynamic and shifting relationships between Europe and key actors in Asia through a geopolitical lens.

Hans Horan joins HCSS as new Strategic Analyst

HCSS is pleased to announce that Hans Horan has joined our team as a Strategic Analyst! An expert on the Indo-Pacific, cyber threat intelligence, and security and defence affairs, on joining HCSS he states: “Im particularly looking forward to helping HCSS explore security trends in the Indo-Pacific and bridge the cyber-geopolitics gaps, especially given that our society's growing digitalisation has left us more exposed to malicious threat actors, both state-sponsored and otherwise.”