22ND Parliamentary Intelligence-Security Forum – Security, Intelligence And Defense Challenges
General Batschelet pointed out that we are at a strategic inflection point and must act with a sense of urgency as a window of opportunity will be fleeting.
Russia’s war on Ukraine reacquainted us to old terrors so as we design and train forces for the future, we must understand the difference between war’s nature and character, confusing the two can result in flawed assumptions related to deterrence conflict termination and victory, confusing the two also can give civilian and political leaders an inflated sense of control over wars conditions and lead to ill-formed concept system acquisitions and fielding, he mentioned.
