The Resilience Brief

Foresight within NATO: The future.

So far, The Resilience Brief series has discussed a wide range of themes, to identify the environmental threat, risks and opportunities to militaries, both now and in the

Technological solutions to achieving climate resilience and the personnel touch

  This episode of the TRB discusses the problem of aligning military knowledge and understanding with the expertise of industry. Experts from academia and industry shar

Geographical climate change: NATO and the adversary in the global North and global South.

In this episode, guest speakers examine how approaches to climate change vary geographically, specifically looking at how our allies and adversaries are tackling the glob

Championing climate innovation at the lowest level: top-down, bottom-up solutions to resilience

Across society, strategies are constructed, cohered and enacted by a range of senior individuals. To date, The Resilience Brief has reflected the influence of these promi

Integration climate resilience across domains: Multi-Domain Operations

Episodes 5-7 of TRB considered how Defence is tackling climate resilience on operations within individual domains – land, sea and air. But operations are rarely conducted

Resilience in the Air: Jet Zero or Zero Chance?

Aviation fuel emissions have been an enduring issue for air forces in the fight for climate resilience. However, with developments in Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) driv

In Hot Water: Climate Challenges for Naval Forces

Like land forces, navies are faced with the breadth and scale of climate related risks, so how is climate science informing conversations around maritime platforms and th

The Ground Truth: Resilience in the Land Domain

The threat of climate change on global security means it is an area where Armed Forces must pay increasing attention. But with the challenge varying across domains, how d

Disaster Mode: Activated

Defence has a tradition of short-termism when implementing climate related policies, routinely seeking to deprioritise resilience initiatives to overcome budgetary shortf

The Interoperability Conundrum

NATO define interoperability as "The ability to act together coherently, effectively and efficiently to achieve Allied objectives". But what does it mean to achieve, or e

The Future Operating World

For an armed force to be resilient, it must be able to meet its current and future needs, and to support the needs of the population(s) that it seeks to protect. The clim

Climate Change, Resilience and Defence

What is the relationship between climate science and resilience in the context of defence operations? In this first episode of The Resilience Brief (TRB) podcast, hosts L