{"id":60692,"date":"2021-01-11T09:26:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T09:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2021\/01\/11\/embraer-defense-executive-will-protectionism-define-the-post-pandemic-defense-industry\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:30:19","slug":"embraer-defense-executive-will-protectionism-define-the-post-pandemic-defense-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/outlook\/2021\/01\/11\/embraer-defense-executive-will-protectionism-define-the-post-pandemic-defense-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Embraer defense executive: Will protectionism define the post-pandemic defense industry?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

While I\u2019m writing this article, the world is facing the greatest global crisis of our generation. It is worth asking what a globalized world means after the COVID-19 pandemic<\/a>, and mainly in the context of the defense industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Will it feature, as it did until recently, dynamic international trade and financial flows, globally integrated production chains, and an unprecedented flow of people and goods? Or, as many have speculated, will we see more protectionism, with countries protecting their markets and jobs, being more self-absorbed and less integrated? And how will the effects of geopolitical trends, accelerated by the current crisis, unfold in the decision-making of the military segment in a review of strategic plans?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nonstate actors, unconventional wars, terrorism, nationalism, the connection of organized crime with paramilitary movements, radicalism and rogue states are some of the topics with which we are commonly presented. Entirely unpredictable in nature, these trends have the capacity to cause even more damage, marked by new space and cyber weapons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps we will move from open partnerships, shared defense solutions and industrial integration to a more suspicious environment, where countries will develop individual defense responses, only using partnerships that supplement their ability to succeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New technologies, communications formats, relationships, economic flows, environmental concerns and geopolitical trends will have significant consequences in our lives. And the repercussions are uncertain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this environment, the defense sector will face new threats, such as the even more intensive use of cyber and space technology, autonomous applications, and artificial intelligence to attack, threaten, influence, or defend countries, companies and citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The prospect of cyber conflicts is worrisome. Software overtakes hardware, and the product is an internet of solutions that we can\u2019t truly understand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the new world that the defense industry must understand and ultimately act upon. Industry must seek solutions far beyond the conventional, sometimes even distant from our natural comfort zones, either by doctrine or generational conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\t