Challenges to national defence in contemporary geopolitical situation

We construct and study a continuous evolutionary model describing the conflict interaction between automation and the labor market in strategic IT sectors. The system dynamics are based on the Lotka-Volterra framework, enhanced by Markov switching and Levy-type stochastic jumps. This allows for describing the impact of rare but critical events that abruptly change employment levels. By applying phase merging methods, we derive a reduced model that preserves key asymptotic behavior. The approach serves as a tool for analyzing market resilience and strategic risks under global uncertainty.