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terrorist actions among others. When an emerging crisis situation emerges that is man-made, should
have a swift and clear answer by the international community when a true security threat is seen to
emerge. That should be our strategic planning and our strategic goal; To protect our society and to serve
our nations.
A new strategic framework is been consolidated. It seeks strategic and security authority, legal, political
and alliance of states, which will practically be applied and deployed, through action planning and
intelligence methodological approaches; through technology use and pure analysis and knowledge
sharing.
The international community, requires, deployability risk assessments and risk factor analysis. It requires
pure strategic innovation, security assessments and ability to think in multi-levels and in multiple
disciplines. It requests agility, strategic operational preparedness and more than this ability to provide
practical efficacy success.
Strategists are therefore called upon. We need to offer
true, tangible and robust strategic knowledge but more
importantly practical solutions. Strategists should
therefore get together. We should explore social and local
security. We should seek practical operational and
tactical resolutions. We should be able to cooperate with
multi-levels of government decision-making. We should
seek a more proactive role of national and homeland
security levels, intelligence gathering of true accurate
operational information. Strategist character should
include cross-national and transnational to international
strategic sharing of information and knowledge but also
proposals. Proposals should be take into serious
consideration, with operational effectiveness through
strategic management of deployability of forces and
operational preparedness that can be assumed as successful when properly evaluated, planned and
applied.
Strategists should assess possible challenges and damage, regional and international. They should think
in multi-levels and multiple dimensions; To offer a true analysis of the global emergence of threats and
how to counter them in real-time action plans.
Dr Marios Panagiotis Efthymiopoulos is Assistant Professor and Program coordinator of the MA in Strategy and Security at the
American University in the Emirates, located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. He is the CEO and Founder of the think tank
Strategy International, and Member of the Geostrategic Council attached to the President of Cyprus
more information:
Email: [email protected]
Www.efthymiopoulos.gr
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