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The future of warfare and implications for civil military cooperation and humantarian space. Peter Viggo Jakobsen Royal Danish Defence College Ifs-71@fak.dk Danish Health Network Seminar, 11 December 2013. The future = recent past. No new Iraqs or Afghanistans in the decade ahead.
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The future of warfare and implications for civil military cooperation and humantarian space Peter Viggo Jakobsen Royal Danish Defence College Ifs-71@fak.dk Danish Health Network Seminar, 11 December 2013
The future = recent past • No new Iraqs or Afghanistans in the decade ahead
The future = recent past • Anti-piracy, air campaigns, capacity building and use of special forces
Drivers shaping future wars • US militarydominance • Nuclearmutualassureddestruction • Economicinterdependence No great power wars
Drivers shaping future wars • State failure internalwars
Future conflict management • Lower Western ambitions and fewer troops • BRICS military involvement will remain limited
Implications for humanitarian space? + Humanitarian organisations lesslikely to beasked to work as part of integratedapproaches
Implications for civil-military cooperation ÷ Inadequate military presence and security (DRC) the norm Humanitarian organisations must negotiate security and access
Implications for humanitarian space Humantarian workers less targeted?
Implications for humanitarian space Targeting driven by need and ideology (anti-West) in existential conflicts likely to fall Targeting driven by greed likely to remain
Implications for humanitarian space ÷ Greater risk of future Syrias and Rwandas