2 · MILITARY TECHNOLOGY 2/2023 Editorial Will is as Important as Technology Edge.................................................... 1 Marco Giulio Barone, Editor-in-Chief Observations from Europe Brussels Ukraine: EU’s challenge of challenges ...................................................... 4 Caterina Tani Berlin That is About to Change.............................................................................. 5 Stefan Nitschke Paris French footprint in Africa............................................................................. 6 Less boots on the ground, weaker economic ties Marco Giulio Barone Rome Parole, parole, parole – Raising awareness, unchanged budget..................................................... 7 Marco Giulio Barone London The First Casualty of War…. ...................................................................... 8 Tim Mahon Hot Spots NATO: the saga continues – The Alliance after one year of Ukrainian war............................................ 10 Caterina Tani What Happened Next................................................................................. 13 Thomas Withington Dependence of Strategic and Critical Raw Materials May Soon Replace Today’s Dependence on Oil, Says the European Commission – What Lessons are to be Learned?.............................................................16 Stefan Nitschke Theme: Light Fighters Requirements and Proposals for Light Fighters – Powerful Little Ones................................................................................... 21 Santiago Rivas Radar, Sensors, Pods, and Suites for light fighters – Does size matters?.................................................................................... 24 Anil Raj UCAVs and adjuncts/remote carriers: the light fighters of the future?.................................................................. 28 Babak Taghvaee Nations in Focus: Greece Geopolitics in East Mediterranean – Shaping military agendas.......................................................................... 32 Marco Giulio Barone The modernization efforts of the Hellenic Army...................................... 37 Robert Czulda The Hellenic defence industry’s international cooperation programmes............................................................................................... 40 Eugene Kogan Observers from Overseas India Looking Inward. ......................................................................................... 44 Atul Chandra Japan Breaking the Yoshida doctrine.................................................................. 45 Tim Fish Strategic pills from China Xi Jinping’s China: Dragon on the Move?................................................. 46 Tomáš Chlebecek Emerging Technologies Final Frontiers – Emerging Technologies Observatory Show Me the MANET…. – Persistent Systems IRONs Out USAF Security Issues............................ 47 Tim Mahon Final Frontiers – Emerging Technologies Observatory The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Neuroscientist – AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning in Defence............................. 49 Tim Mahon Final Frontiers – Emerging Technologies Observatory Manufacturing in Space – Space logistics for civil and (maybe) military applications..................... 50 Marco Giulio Barone Cloud computing for defence applications – Perspectives and experiments................................................................. 51 Andrew White The 3-2-1 Interview Hybrid Intelligence – the Future of Defence?........................................... 54 Tim Mahon Contents ˇ
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