Dual-Use Civil Infrastructure in Europe as an Enabling Layer for Defence Readiness and Strategic Autonomy
Securing the European Commons: Dual-Use Infrastructure as the Backbone of Continental ReadinessThe strategic landscape of Europe is undergoing a fundamental recalibration, transitioning from a post-Co
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About this report
The strategic landscape of Europe is undergoing a fundamental recalibration, transitioning from a post-Cold War emphasis on expeditionary management to a robust “Readiness First” posture. Central to this shift is the recognition that military mass is operationally inert without an underlying architecture of resilient, high-capacity civil infrastructure.
This report examines how the European Union is systematically re-engineering its dual-use commons—spanning trans-European transport corridors, undersea data backbones, and space-based secure connectivity—to serve as a decisive enabling layer for collective defense.
Key questions this report answers
- How is the EU re-engineering its dual-use commons, spanning trans-European transport corridors, undersea data backbones and space-based secure connectivity, to enable collective defence?
- How do military mobility and transport corridors act as an operational-tempo constraint on defence readiness?
- Why are submarine cables, dry-plant nodes and assured space communications strategic dependencies for continuity and mission redundancy?
- How do critical-infrastructure resilience, cybersecurity and defence-industrial finance instruments function as multipliers in the 'Readiness First' posture?
Inside this report
- Defence readiness framing and the enabling-infrastructure logic
- Military mobility and transport corridors as an operational tempo constraint
- Submarine cables and dry-plant nodes as a strategic dependency for continuity an
- Secure connectivity and space-based assured communications as redundancy and mis
- Critical infrastructure resilience and cybersecurity as operational enablers
- Defence-industrial finance instruments as infrastructure multipliers
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