How Should the State Manage the Contemporary Expectation of Non-Combatant Evacuation Operations?

Abstract

Globalisation is challenging the conventional, state-centric concept of security while politicians perpetuate the myth that the state can, and will, offer absolute security to its citizens overseas. David Bond explores how the scale of the challenge of a non-combatant evacuation operation (NEO) could already be beyond the capacity of many states in the current era of increasingly diverse security threats, reduced capital military assets and diminishing defence resources.