According to the analysis presented in the article, the main threat to Finnish security is no more a conflict between the great powers, into which Finland would be drawn, but rather geopolitical spillover from a crisis in Russian-Baltic relations. Weighing the pros and cons of Finnish (and Swedish) Nato-membership in this context, the author concludes that Finland’s and Sweden’s Nato-membership...

This paper describes the evaluation, test and selection of STANAG 4591, the future NATO Narrow Band Voice Coder (NBVC). STANAG 4591 will enable high performance interoperable secure speech communications in harsh acoustic and channel error environments at rates of 1.2kbps and 2.4kbps. The low data rate requirements of this voice coder allow it to operate on channels with low throughput, such as...

The United Kingdom (UK) Prime Minister Theresa May’s official request, on March 29th, to leave the European Union (EU) will change the way European countries organise their defence policies. Europeans have always managed their defence via various channels: nationally, in the EU, through NATO and in smaller formats. Brexit will change the way these formats function and how they interact. The eff...

Architecture frameworks have become a popular means to cope with the complexity of today’s enterprises. They support the specification of architectures by providing a method for designing and describing them. An architecture framework typically defines a common terminology, a set of views focusing on particular aspects of the architecture, a set of architecture types with varying levels of deta...

Problem statement: The Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I) Systems provided situational awareness about operational environment and supported in decision making and directed to operative environment. These systems had been used by various agencies like defense, police, investigation, road, rail, airports, oil and gas related department. However, the increase use o...

(La collaboration dans le domaine des véhicules terrestres, aériens, maritimes et spatiaux: L'´ etablissement d'une approche commune de la dynamique des véhicules, l'identification des systèmes, et les qualités de contrôle et de pilotage) Single copies of this publication or of a part of it may be made for individual use only. The approval of the RTA Information Management and Systems Branch is...

the end of the cold war and the disintegration of the soviet :union: marked the start of a new era in international relations. when russia's power and influence weakened, some newly independent states of central asia and the caucasus have taken tendency toward relation with west. for europe resource of new countries notably oil and gas was very important for independent from russia energy....