By the Editor – The alarm has sounded on our metaphoric defence and security alarm clock but we keep hitting the snooze button, the author retorts. Is he right? Certainly erstwhile technological advantages against potential opponents have been squandered. Certainly Allied naval mass has diminished significantly. And certainly we have been largely distracted for two decades – especially away from Russian advances and regarding the ‘High North’. Here the author makes a case for urgent system over platform centric development to counter a resurgent Russia; a call that is applicable well beyond th…
