Civil defence in a state under… permanent threat of war

Civil defence in a state under… permanent threat of war

The war in Iran, and the crisis it dragged Cyprus into, has forced open a chapter nobody wanted to read: the Cypriot state’s near-total inability to manage a wartime scenario, and its chronic failure to build the infrastructure that would actually keep its citizens safe. These are not optional extras. They are the basic obligations […]

By Frixos Dalitis