DSEI RESTARTS INTERNATIONAL DEFENCE EXPOS

摘要

The first major defence event in Europe, DSEI, was a success, with exhibitors reporting that they had been pleased at the level and quality of the attendance - in fact more than many had anticipated. The working tone at the conference was established on the first morning by General Sir Patrick Sanders, Commander, UK Strategic Command, who delivered the keynote outlining the need for multi-domain integration. He began with a warning that "the threat is not diminishing. The security outlook is more perilous that it was two years ago and we are now facing the twin spectre of emboldened jihadi terrorists and something not seen since the 1930s, a growing authoritarian Zeitgeist that celebrates the suppression of political and individual freedom as a better way to govern." This was driving Great Power competition, he stated, which in turn was fuelling risk-taking strategies. Regimes such as those in Russia and China, he said, had been investing in a new modus operandi; to win without fighting, and the expansion of warfare into space and cyber in "a race for advantage in the defining technologies of the future."