Professional: Foresight & Horizon Scanning | Research: Resilience (CNI / Societal) & Comprehensive Security, Total Defence, National Preparedness | Emerging Risks & CM / EM | Military mobility | High North, GIUK-NGap & Arctic Futures | Personal: #OnXII
Guy Yeomans
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I am obliged to sound the #GIUK-NGap klaxon... A perspective from @chathamhouse.org on the UK's DIP & the strategic choices it may reveal (or not)... #highnorth bsky.app/profile/chat...
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UK: #foodresilience. What's interesting is the industry trade body explicitly calling for government to recognise it as Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) & for it's systemic risk potential to be included in the National Risk Register... #coldchainresilience
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Norway: welcome the Arctic Resilience Centre... #highnorthberedskapen
Image from journey: Birmingham, Southside District, B5 4RX at 04.50hrs... #OnXII
Welcome the Forward Land Forces Finland... #northcalotte #highnorth
I have been notified I am obliged to sound the #GIUK-NGap klaxon!
I am obliged to sound the #GIUK-NGap klaxon... Stand-up of Task Force X (TFX)-Arctic experimentation programme. Testing if networked uncrewed systems "...can deliver persistent multi-domain situational awareness across the North Atlantic, the Arctic & the #highnorth" www.sto.nato.int/task-force-x...
Comments from @alanderminna.bsky.social on the #resilienceparadox & the challenges of the 'permissive environment' this may be facilitating... (recommend listening to the whole podcast, but from 21:30) #nationalresilience
UK: Will the delayed 10-year Defence Investment Plan (DIP) be fully released this Thursday? Or just a 'headline' announcement? Does Gov then need to re-run its UK defence supply chains wargame to understand the DIP's implications? #supplychainresilience #warpreparedness
www.gov.uk/government/n...
I am obliged to sound the #GIUK-NGap klaxon: "The exercise unfolded across waters off Norway & Iceland... Critical shipping lanes & undersea infrastructure make the #highnorth essential to both NATO security & global stability" #thoiranaire #dynamicmongoose www.raf.mod.uk/news/article...
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This week, it was @kaeggen.bsky.social and my time to shine on the Mildly Alarmed episode on hybrid warfare !
While @lapatina.bsky.social had some well-deserved time off, @frhoffmann.bsky.social was a very strict moderator and managed to stop Karen-Anna from presenting her whole PhD on the topic 😌
The disconnect between UK policymakers ambitions for Ukraine – or the Strait of Homuz – and the resources available suggests a level of self-deception about the UK's capabilities.
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Here are the key questions that should be asked when assessing the much-delayed plan.
On 6 June, the NATO Research Vessel Alliance departed La Spezia, Italy, for the High North and Arctic, marking the start of Task Force X (TFX)-Arctic – NATO’s new initiative to strengthen the Alliance...
www.sto.nato.int
Major wargame exercise brings together leading defence companies to test supply chain resilience under wartime pressure.
RAF Lossiemouth’s Poseidon P-8A Force has taken centre stage in Exercise Dynamic Mongoose 2026, delivering the UK’s air power contribution to one of NATO’s premier anti-sub...
@guyyeomans.bsky.social how is your GIUK klaxon? 😀
The Norwegian government is strengthening #preparedness and #state #presence in #Kirkenes, Northern Norway, with a new hub called the Arctic Resilience Centre. A project manager has been appointed, and two new hires are underway.
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Sweden spent 210 years avoiding military alliances. On its National Day, June 6, it placed 600 soldiers under NATO command in the Arctic — leading the alliance's new battlegroup on Russia's northern doorstep.
defence-blog.com/sweden-puts-...
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The hub will be named the Arctic Resilience Centre. A project manager has been appointed, and two new hires are underway.
On Sweden's National Day, a country that spent more than two centuries avoiding military alliances took formal command of a NATO battlegroup positioned at the edge of the Arctic, placing its soldiers ...
