andro barnovi

Speech made at the  Partnership for Peace Consortium’s 14th annual conference June 19-20, 2012. Radisson Blue Hotel,  Tbilisi, Georgia   Ladies and Gentlemen, Excellences, dear Guests! It is an honor and privilege to address this distinguished audience here in Georgia. We are proud that severe security challenges notwithstanding, Georgia manages to keep peace, steady progress and goal-driven business environment in all spheres of public life. Because this is opening speech, let me be little philosophical about the role of partnerships in promoting peace and security. Of course, partnership is nothing but reality for this audience, and we all know that m utual interest and cooperation are the two core aspects for any partnership. Peace and security, as some of the most complex goals, cannot be achieved without wider consensus and cooperation. Partnerships help both to achieve consensus and to carry out consensus-based decisions, onc...

Speech made at the Cyber Defence & Network Security Conference January 24-26th, 2012.  Radisson Blue Portman Hotel, London Andro Barnovi Deputy Minister of Defence of Georgia, Rector of National Defence Academy Let me start by quoting a paragraph from the book “Inside Cyber Warfare” by Jeffrey Carr, who has worked on the open source intelligence investigation project into Russian cyber-attacks on Georgia in August ’08. The book cites the speech by former First Deputy Chief of Staff to the President of RF and former GRU Intelligence officer Vladislav Surkov who held closed-door conference with number of Russian spin-doctors right after the war in Georgia and explained how to use information as a weapon to Fight Russia’s enemies. He instructed that Net wars have always been an internal peculiarity of the Internet while the war in Georgia showed that the Net is a front just like the traditional media, and a front that is much faster to respond and much ...

Speech made on the 2nd Annual Regional Collaboration in Cyber Security Conference , Bangkok Thailand, September 27-28, 2011 Andro Barnovi Deputy Minister of Defence of Georgia, Rector of National Defence Academy In August of 2008 Russia waged war against Georgia and we faced two parallel campaigns during that war. Not only the tanks and aviation bombed Georgian cities and villages, but also Georgian web-sites and governmental servers were placed under the type of attack which very much resembles the one exercised by Mongols in history. This is the so called “swarming” principle, when a target is being attacked simultaneously from all possible directions by multiple aggressors who immediately disappear after the attack. Surely, this immediately reminds us terrorist tactics and this is certainly the case: technological progress and globalization of information sphere brought many positive, but also many difficult challenges which can be hardly mirrored in history but ar...

Speech at PfPC Annual Conference George C. Marshal Center, Garmisch, Germany Education can serve many purposes, but the defense education system stands out with its focus on security thinking and its capacity to deliver. Products of this system - defense and security leadership - are in charge of the Armed Forces but also security policies and they make up one of the most important components of the society’s identity. Hence, quality defense education matters for the Armed Forces readiness and the entire society’s behavior as such. In turn, these are connected with the role of society in the international system, and its aptitude to take part in regional and international security. Accordingly, we may define the role of defense education as a guarantor of the quality of the Armed Forces and a shaper of the society’s identity and behavior of the nation. should not be published without permission

ENHANCING DEFENCE AND SECURITY EDUCATION Andro Barnovi A speech on Rose Roth Seminar in Tbilisi, 24.03.2011 Ladies and gentlemen, dear guests, The past two decades have formed a truly new era that is different from anything in the past. It is different because the world has become global, and we have all begun to take stakes in each other’s benefits and challenges. Because old cuffs no longer work, today we have more freedom to choose new partners and to regard those who fight back from the past as outdated. The spirit of partnership and shared responsibility are, perhaps, the main characteristics of this new era. We all know, however, that this is not the only trend. Challenges to partnership also abound and are shared by those who choose to partner. Terrorism, extremism, isolationist philosophy of former empires, nuclear proliferation and ecology make up a very incomplete list of our shared challenges >>> http://barnovi.blogspot.com/p/blog-page.html ...

ბატონო ანდრო, საპარლამენტო უმრავლესობასთან ანაკლიაში გამართულ შეხვედრაზე პრეზიდენტის მიერ კონსტიტუციის ახალ პროექტთან დაკავშირებით გაკეთებული განცხადებების შემდეგ, გაურკვეველი დარჩა ხელისუფლებაში დარჩენის რა გზას აირჩევს სააკაშვილი. თქვენი ვარაუდით, 2013 წლის შემდეგ, როგორი შეიძლება იყოს სააკაშვილის პოლიტიკური მომავალი? პირველ რიგში უნდა ვთქვა, რომ კონსტიტუციის ახალი მოდელი მართლაც საინტერესოა. როგორც ბევრი ცდილობს, მე ვითარების გამარტივების მომხრე არა ვარ. არ ვიზიარებ მოსაზრებას, თითქოს სააკაშვილს ხელისუფლებაში დარჩენის გარდა, არაფერი აინტერესებს.