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Recommendations for NATO Two key recommendations for the alliance emerged from the workshop. First, participants noted the opportunity for NATO to collaborate with Southern partners on “deterrence through resilience”—drawing lessons from the total defense system approach pioneered by NATO in Scandinavia and the Baltic , to deter hostile state actors by building resilience (and telegraphing national and societal will) across both the cyber and physical domains 14 . Traditional deterrence would still remain a key element of national defense and internal security for all concerned, but in the face of proliferating EDT and ambiguous or non-attributable actors, a focus on resilience was likely to play a key supporting role. Second, and to support the first recommendation, the Alliance may wish to consider a dialogue, and a series of supporting activities to encourage two-way information sharing, on NATO’s resilience agenda, including the seven baseline requirements (7BR) agreed by the allies in 2016 and since developed into action plans for continuity of government and critical government services, resilient energy supplies, ability to deal effectively with uncontrolled movement of people, resilient food and water resources, ability to deal with mass casualties, resilient civil communications systems and resilient transport systems 15. It was felt that the 7BR categories might form a useful framework for engagement with the South on EDT, with an initial focus on resilient health systems, people movement and civil communications.
Webinar on EDT in the Middle East and Africa
12
October 2020
