Er, one for you @warmatters.bsky.social & @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social... #dontdelayordertoday

cc @amandacomms.bsky.social... #civilprotection

UK: Subsea resilience & crisis preparedness... #criticalinfrastructuresecurity #societalresilience

Ukraine: Запобігти. Врятувати. Допомогти... #civilprotection

Finland: "Preparedness must be proactive, inclusive and deeply integrated into national strategy..." Food system resilience & Huoltovarmuuskeskus, or the National Emergency Supply Agency (NESA), & its work... #comprehensivesecurity #societalresilience www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"The Type 26 has been designed from the start with one mission in mind: countering Russian submarines in the North Atlantic": I'm going to claim this one for a #GIUK-NGap klaxon...

Spain: new #civilprotection education initiative, crossing different school-age groups, & designed to provide “the necessary knowledge, skills, attitudes & values needed to deal with emergency situations in a safe & effective way”... #societalresilience www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

UK: "...oops, no civil defence". But is there a 'full court press' to get that War Book reconstituted? #civilprotection

France: national medical contingency planning for 'rear base' conflict casuality support. Reported planning scale, "hospitals should be able to absorb between 10,000 & 50,000 wounded personnel over a 10- to 180-day window", operating with medical staging centres... euroweeklynews.com/2025/08/27/f...

Poland: new 'safety guide', described "as a tool for building societal resilience" has now been formally launched, with paper copies to be distributed to all homes over the autumn... #civilprotection www.polskieradio.pl/395/7784/Art...

Reading across both UK & Norwegian perspectives cited makes this a significant decision not just for future #HighNorth maritime security, but also for that of the #GIUKGap. Increasingly moves us towards the spatial realignment of a more integrated #GIUK-NGap strategic framing? 1/2

Forward presence... #HighNorth

#GIUKGap: a slightly tongue-in-check klaxon on my part, but I wonder what recent events may have contributed to such a late August surge in interest?

Resilience teleology...

I am obliged to sound the #GIUKGap klaxon... #HighNorth

Germany: "As logistical hubs, the seaports are of central importance for military deployment scenarios..." (machine translation). Ports, it seems, are not yet classified as 'militarily relevant' for direct funding purposes... #militarymobility www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/u...

Norway: "Near-term steps flagged in the strategy include developing a readiness zone in Troms & Finnmark, strengthening state & municipal preparedness across Northern Norway with special focus on East Finnmark..." #totalberedskap #nordområdestrategi #HighNorth (h/t @iceblogger.bsky.social) 1/2

One for you @aarnegranlund.bsky.social... #NorthKarelia www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Coffee, research & musing on an article from January: "What the white paper is really about is a necessary structural change in civilian Norway's ability to handle the crises that are coming. But processes don't make headlines." The challenges of left-of-bang political saliency... #totalberedskap

"Sustainability is more than ammunition and equipment – ​​it's a societal responsibility..." (machine translation). Not sure if you'd seen this from back in June @jsargentr.bsky.social...

Participation @warmatters.bsky.social... (click on the 'about this app') #WISPA

UK: ministerial leadership during crises. This is very insightful. Step beyond opinions on the individuals interviewed or referenced & frame from with the central role of government in effecting response to major civil contingency emergencies & their impacts on #civilprotection & #societalresilience

Sweden: enhancing the focus on #civildefence... 1/2 bsky.app/profile/58de...

Target achieved: walk 1000 miles between August Bank Holiday 2024 to same weekend in 2025. Some favourites from this year’s journey... 1/4 #solviturambulando #OnXII

I am obliged to sound the #GIUKGap klaxon... #AtlanticBastion & @salisbot.bsky.social: "When fully implemented, the project aims to bolster the RN’s capacity to detect, track, & deter submarines across the North Atlantic, particularly around the vital GIUK (Greenland-Iceland-UK) gap..." #HighNorth

UK: highlighting the relationship between hybrid warfare, #civilprotection & #societalresilience...

Thread @warmatters.bsky.social...

"There is no substitute for rail..." #militarymobility

Recent summer reading: I appear, inadvertently & interspersed with #civilprotection forays, to have built an escalation ladder...

cc @warmatters.bsky.social #WISPA

SNMG1: "NATO does neither detail how far east in the Norwegian sector of the Barents Sea its group of warships sailed..." #HighNorth

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cc @jsargentr.bsky.social... Not sure if you've already seen this, but full recording here - www.csis.org/events/forti...

cc @warmatters.bsky.social... #weaponofchoice

cc @jsargentr.bsky.social

Sobering thread on European #militarymobility...

Azov model: adaptation logic. It was the networked structures comment that caught my eye @warmatters.bsky.social... #WISPA

"Putting the vaults inside otherwise standard shipping containers would also just make them easier to move logistically using existing air, ground, & sea assets..." cc @jsargentr.bsky.social

"It is not all roses in the American clouds": Stack... cc @warmatters.bsky.social @rbarretttaylor.bsky.social

Full-population multi-domain networks of social exposure & connections @warmatters.bsky.social...

UK: Out ER. Flood evacuation road route planning. I did not know this. Is this the only example in the UK @hasisd.bsky.social?

UK: New public risk perception survey findings released, aiming to "...understand what people think about different types of emergencies, and what steps – if any – they have taken to prepare for them." #nationalpreparedness #civilprotection www.gov.uk/government/s...

UK: Note the time framing for the report's recommedations in stating "The Government has two months to respond" (from 9th July)... #greyzone

Australia: Whilst noting a recent narrative shift towards 'resilience', this is an interesting alternative 'national safety' framing from @aspi-org.bsky.social, counterposed to national security... #societalresilience www.aspistrategist.org.au/home-affairs...

#kitsune! cc @willsh.bsky.social...

cc @thinkdefence.bsky.social

"The fact there is still life in the country - that's a great thing...". #lifestrategy & #logpower @jsargentr.bsky.social

EU: launches new integrative Stockpiling & Medical Countermeasures Strategies, as part of the Preparedness Union Strategy, "ensuring continuity of essential goods & lifesaving medical supplies at all times..." #societalresilience civil-protection-humanitarian-aid.ec.europa.eu/news-stories...

UK: new Defence Committee report published, with Chapter 4 concentrating on 'Building homeland resilience', which looks to deepen the initial high-level thinking in Chapter 6 of the SDR (Home Defence and Resilience: A Whole-of-Society Approach)... #nationalpreparedness #civilprotection