The Art of Scaling Organising Swift Adaptation to Cope with Crises and War

Huib Zijderveld MSc. served as an air force reservist, and as artillery, intelligence, and CIMIC (Civil-Military Cooperation) officer. His PhD research examines the domestic role of armed forces, particularly how civil-military organizations and networks develop, adapt and create legitimacy. He is research fellow at the Netherlands Defense Academy to bridge his academic research with military service. Drawing on both military and academic experience, Huib Zijderveld aims to strengthen the resilience of security organizations and society as a whole.

Floribert Baudet is professor of Military History at the Netherlands Defense Academy and the University of Amsterdam. He received his PhD in the history of international relations from Utrecht University. He has published widely on a variety of topics, including the former Yugoslavia, Dutch foreign and defence policy, the war of aggression against Ukraine, and total defence.

Annelies van Vark works as a senior advisor for the Defense Staff, Ministry of Defense. Her current focus is on scalability of the Dutch armed forces in preparation for a possible military conflict. She is also an external PhD candidate at Leiden University, finishing her dissertation on the changing domestic role of the armed forces in the Netherlands, Sweden and Finland from a civil-military relations perspective.

René Moelker is associate professor of Armed Forces and Society at the Netherlands Defence Academy. His field of study ranges from military technology to military families, from veterans to naval history, from international collaboration to national use of the Armed Forces.

Edwin Dado is associate professor of Military Engineering at the Faculty of Military Sciences of the Netherlands Defence Academy. His current research interests include, project- and process management, area denial, hydraulic warfare and building information modelling.