ARRC JOURNAL
THE EVOLVING GLOBAL SECURITY
SITUATION AND ITS IMPACT ON
THE EUROPEAN THEATRE, NATO
AND HQ ARRC
Maj Alex Michael (GBR-A)
We live in a security environment that contains a broad and evolving set of challenges.
The international order and norms are changing. Both known and emerging actors are
regularly adjusting their strategic aims and so unpredictability is flourishing once more.
As we approach the end of the second
decade of the 21st Century, the NATO
Alliance faces both new and resurgent
threats to our security. Within an ‘arc
of instability’, to the east a single state
actor is vying to strengthen its sphere of
influence, while to the south the threat
is two-fold, security threats from radical
Islam, and the economic threats and
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