Annual Baltic Conference on Defence 2014

24-25 September 2014 · Tallinn

Technology Race and Defence: The future of Western technological dominance in military affairs

With defence budgets shrinking across NATO and the EU, a serious discussion is needed on the future of the technology-centric defence. ABCD 2014 addressd a range of relevant questions such as whether the posture of maintaining technological edge and superiority of Western defence is still feasible in the age of asymmetric strategies and fast diffusion of new technologies; whether our defence strategies and policies properly reflect new technological trends, challenges and opportunities, and do so quickly enough; how our armed forces have to change in order to reflect the rapidly evolving technological context; and whether our defence capability development paradigms are adequate in the new strategic, technological and financial contexts.