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In an increasingly insecure world, the military has to arm itself against increasing threats – the army is trying to look a bit into the future of the ‘risk landscape in Austria’ with the help of a study.

“Peace can no longer be taken for granted in Europe!” For example, Defense Minister Klaudia Tanner (ÖVP) introduced the security summit. A symposium in Vienna on Austrian defense policy in an increasingly uncertain environment.

A pandemic with millions of sick and dead, natural disasters caused by climate change, an ever-growing number of cyber attacks and Islamist terrorist attacks, such as the one in November 2020 – just a few hundred meters from the conference center in Vienna. All these horror scenarios clearly show that more and more risks are threatening us, and they are also getting closer geographically.

“The Russian attack on Ukraine tragically shows that conventional warfare is still a reality and requires military national defense,” the minister reiterated her strategic credo.

Of course, the military also needs to be expanded to protect against cyber-attacks, disinformation, economic pressure, etc. Tanner again set the goal of a “reasonable defense policy”: increase the military budget to 1 percent of gross domestic product and to 1. 5 percent in the next five years.

With a crisis cabinet against modern threats
At the same time, one thing has been clear since the fight against the pandemic: crises cannot be covered by one department alone. From the start of the Ukraine conflict, a crisis cabinet was set up together with the chancellery, the ministries of Foreign Affairs and the Interior and the energy service.

Also economic national defense
In the face of increasingly complex crises, military tasks must be redefined. So it also requires an “economic national defense” in the era of climate protection, decarbonization and new energy sources.

However, this task does not stop at the electrical cables for houses and industry or at the petrol pumps. New strategies must start with securing raw and base materials – for example for batteries or hydrogen accumulators. Together with the European army, Austrian strategists are therefore trying to find answers on how Europe can gain access to mining sites, the transport of raw materials and production facilities.

In short: Using the strategic compass, our military hopes to have a basic document as a weapon to fend off hybrid threats and identify crises at an early stage.

Source: Krone

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