The Vulnerability of Europe’s Civil Resilience
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What this report covers
Countries: Ukraine. A sourced, structured 5-page analysis for European defence and dual-use decision-makers, from the DFM research desk and built on official and primary sources.
About this report
The war in Ukraine has shattered the illusion that security can be confined to military capabilities alone. A nation’s ability to survive a protracted crisis depends as much on its civil preparedness as on its armed forces. Civil resilience—defined as the capacity of a society to maintain essential functions under stress—has emerged as a decisive component of deterrence.
Across much of Western Europe, this dimension has atrophied after decades of peace and complacency. Governments dismantled civil defence structures, industries optimized for efficiency rather than redundancy, and citizens lost the habit of preparedness.
Key questions this report answers
- Why does the report argue that a nation's ability to survive a protracted crisis depends as much on civil preparedness as on its armed forces?
- How did decades of peace lead Western European governments to dismantle civil defence structures and industries to optimize for efficiency over redundancy?
- In what way has civil resilience, defined as a society's capacity to maintain essential functions under stress, become a decisive component of deterrence?
- What would rebuilding atrophied civil resilience require in terms of industrial redundancy and renewed habits of citizen preparedness?
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Strategy, corporate-development and investment teams that need an ecosystem-level view — budgets, industrial capacity and technology landscapes — before committing capital or capacity.
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