”Slagen utkämpas i skyttegravarna men vinns i fabrikerna”, citatet tillskrivs ofta Josef Stalin, och oavsett om han verkligen yttrade det eller inte spelar mindre roll. Dess varaktighet bygger på en djupare strategisk sanning: krig avgörs aldrig enbart…
Författararkiv: Daniel Ekwall
Russia’s Coming Window of Opportunity for World War III
“What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.” – Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War The evolution of the battlefield in Ukraine goes towards an uncrewed battlefield. Soon, maybe aroun…
The dilution of self-sufficiency: Autarky Rewired
“Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self‑sufficiency.”- Epicurus Over the past few years, the United States has launched two high‑profile initiatives that signal a renewed ambition to internalize strategic supplies and contr…
War by Proxy: Drones as the New Champions of War
“War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides; it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides.” Amit Kalantri Every age dreams of a cleaner war. A war fought with minimal loss of lives, without grief, and without consequence…
War by Proxy: Drones as the New Champions of War
“War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides; it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides.” Amit Kalantri Every age dreams of a cleaner war. A war fought with minimal loss of lives, without grief, and without consequence…
Drone Technology in Criminal Hands: Implications for Law Enforcement and Security
“We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run”. Roy Amara (Amara’s Law) Imagine living in a vast apartment complex where survival depends on paying crypto protection money each month, …
The New Gods of War: Drones and artillery
”God fights on the side with the best artillery.” – Napoleon Bonaparte Religion and warfare have long been intertwined. The Romans worshipped Mars, the god of war, while both ancient Greek and Norse mythologies featured two distinct war deities, each r…
The Robotic Dividend: How China is rewriting the logic of industrial power
“We have to face the fact that countries are going to lose jobs to robotics. The only question that needs to be answered is which country will create and own the best robotic technology and have the infrastructure necessary to enable it.” – Mark Cuban …
The Eye of Kreml: The sphere of coercive influence and hybrid warfare
“The Eye was rimmed with fire, but was itself glazed, yellow as a cat’s, watchful and intent, and the black slit of its pupil opened on a pit, a window into nothing.” The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien In J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings,…
The Global Shadow Fleet: Circumventing the tools of Geoeconomics
“Russia’s shadow fleet represents a dangerous new dimension of geopolitical competition, one that uses maritime ambiguity to quietly weaken adversaries.” Varun Venkatesh The architecture of global power is undergoing a structural transformation. The tr…
From Molotov–Ribbentrop to the Sino-Soviet Schism and Today’s Triangular Rivalry
Great-power alliances rarely rest on genuine friendship or shared convictions; Instead, they reflect shifting calculations of interest and threat, knitting together unlikely partners when circumstances demand and unraveling alliances once their utility…
From Geopolitics to Geoeconomics: The Shifting Logic of Global Power
The term geopolitics has experienced a notable revival over the past decade. While the underlying dynamics it describes never truly disappeared, shifts in how we conceptualize global power and statecraft led to a temporary decline in its usage. As our …
From Industrial Might to Monetary Dominance: The Logic of Trade Wars
Trade has always encompassed more than the mere exchange of goods across borders – it serves as a barometer of power, policy, and national priorities. In today’s interconnected global economy, trade wars have resurfaced as a prominent instrument of geo…
Innovations- och produktionssystemen avgörande i framtidens konflikter
”Battles are fought in trenches but won in factories” – detta uttalande tillskrivs ofta Josef Stalin, och oavsett dess exakta ursprung så belyser det en central insikt om modern krigföring. Kontentan är att i långdragna konflikter avgörs inte utfallet …
Trade wars – there we go again
“In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine.” ― Benjamin Graham The basic concept of trade revolves around reducing the landed cost for the customer while maintaining a profit margin. There are three …
Drivers of conflicts – Why is the number of conflicts in the world increasing
“If we did accept an empire that was offered to us, and refused to give it up under the pressure of three of the greatest motives, fear, honour, and interest. And it was not we who set the example, for it has always been set down that the weaker should…