View: From Europe to the Pacific, world weighs mounting risk of war
economictimes.indiatimes.comNATO defence chiefs' meeting drew to a close, NATO Military Committee Chairman Admiral Robert Bauer outlined the steps he believed households within the alliance should already be taking in the event of war.
«You need to have water, you need to have a radio on batteries and you need to have a flashlight on batteries to make sure that you can survive the first 36 hours,» he said, adding that in any major conflict member nations might need to introduce conscription to keep their militaries in the fight.
The shifting «tectonic plates of power», he warned, were producing the most dangerous world in decades – and risks that could only be tackled by the private sector, industry and governments together to deliver greater resilience.
«We need public and private actors to change their mindset from an era in which everything was plannable, foreseeable, controllable, focused on efficiency… to an era in which anything can happen at any time,» Bauer said. «An era in which we need to expect the unexpected.»
Alongside what now appears to be an ongoing U.S.-UK military campaign in Yemen, the first weeks of 2024 have brought a much greater focus on the mounting risk of war in both Europe and the Pacific – as well as an awareness that the U.S.
