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University of Portsmouth, School of Law academic as Rule of Law Subject Matter Expert (SME) takes part in ongoing NATO Hybrid Threat Experiment
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:54:00 GMT
Dr.Bachman, School of Law, is the NATO Rule of Law Subject Matter Expert (SME) in NATO’s Hybrid Threat Experiment of 2011. The workshops of the experiment took place in Tallinn, Estonia and Brussels, Belgium and had the aim to investigate the utility and feasibility of the Hybrid Threat concept and to develop with other stakeholders possible NATO approaches.
His academic work focuses on the complementarity of 'kinetic' and alternative forms of deterrence for aiders and abettors of international terrorism in a hybrid threat context discussing impact and effect of ‘lethal’ and “non lethal” responses, see e.g. Terrorism Litigation As Deterrence Under International Law – From Protecting Human Rights to Countering Hybrid Threats, 87 Amicus Curiae (2011).
NATO Allied Command Transformation (ACT) supported by the US Joint Forces Command Joint Irregular Warfare Centre (USJFCOM JIWC) and the US National Defence University (NDU) conducted the “Assessing Emerging Security Challenges in the Globalised Environment (Countering Hybrid Threats) Experiment” and is the organising and financing authority behind the experiment.
The principal motivation for this Experiment was to provide greater depth to the work already completed within the BI-SC Concept “The Military Contribution to Countering Hybrid Threats (MCCHT)” , and to explore its impact amongst a broader community of stakeholders.
The results of the Experiment will provide the opportunity to revise the current BI-SC Concept which will subsequently inform the development of a NATO level Concept and NATO policy paper.