The new-age frontiers of competition: space, cyber, and subsea

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence

According to a recent insight from BAE Systems Digital Intelligence, in today’s landscape, a key challenge is how we can work together to collectively secure and realise the benefits of these interconnected domains.

Against a backdrop of technological advances and geopolitical shifts, the traditional defence domains of land, sea and air have been joined by space, cyber and subsea as the modern frontiers of strategic competition.

These domains share common characteristics with the traditional, such as their importance for economic prosperity, the key role they play in critical infrastructure, and their shared use by both civil and military communities.

But they are at the same time distinct, in that they transcend national borders and have unique governance and security challenges. This is increasingly a focus for policy makers, who have responded through various strategy papers and establishing new centres of excellence.

Their blog explores these challenges in more detail, highlighting the interdependencies that exist within this trifecta and the advances required to counter today’s threats.

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