A converging trifecta of national disruptive threats – pandemic, cyber attacks, and a rising authoritarian China – is draining the wealth, political harmony, and international influence of today’s consolidated democracies. The result is a more palpably apparent decline in the likely future of democracy as the preferred regime alternative world-wide. The collective dismay and frustration may, however, offer a rarely open door for better postures for democracies in facing a more, not less, turbulent future. This article makes three arguments about a new and more accurate characterization of the coming world as Great Systems Conflict, a list of minimal must-do actions for systemic resilience, and the collective structures critical for resilient democracies over the long-term. The article ends with a discussion of two examples of structures meant to build cybered resilience for allied national systems—domestically in the National Cyber Security Centre equivalents and across consolidated democracies in a Cyber Operational Resilience Alliance.
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