The Bulgarian Defense Institute "Prof. Tsvetan Lazarov" published the new issue of the Journal of Defense and Security Technologies (Volume 3, June 2020).

The main focus of this volume is on the approaches for a long-term forecasting of the trends in the development of the defense technologies. It is dedicated to the results achieved in the framework of the European Defense Agency Project „Predictive methodology for Technology Intelligence Analysis“(PYTHIA), carried out in the period 2018-2020.

The articles cover topics like: the defence strategy and new disruptive technologies nexus; the human factor-based failures in technology forecasting; the approaches for prioritisation of national interests of the EU Member States; the approaches to counter hybrid threats; the conceptual modelling in simulation of military logistics processes.

The editors of the volume are Prof. Dr. Sc. Yantsislav Yanakiev and Dr. Giuseppe Vella - coordinator of PYTHIA project.

It is accessible at the following address: https://www.jdst.eu/journal-issue/jdst-vol3