Australia passed two pieces of national security legislation that critics complain criminalizes dissent and is unnecessarily directed towards China, the country’s largest trading partner. The laws ban …
NSA deletes years of call records, says it exceeded legal limit
The National Security Agency is “deleting all call detail records (CDRs) acquired since 2015” to meet the requirements of the 2015 USA Freedom Act. This act ended the secret collection of call detail …
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The American Way of War Is Based On Tech: Don’t Let It Be Our Downfall!
"My hope in sharing this is to get you to read this short story and think about it in a context of today's military. The lessons from this story are the same lessons which should be learned …
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The Growing Threat of Maritime Terrorism
Introduction The 21st century has seen large-scale, well-organized terrorist attacks by Islamist terrorists on nearly every continent. These same terrorists and terrorist organizations have …
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Why “Cyberwar” Isn’t Happening
“Cyberwar” is an imprecise and ugly term. Equal parts misleading and ambiguous, the term cyberwar has somehow battled its way into our modern lexicon and is used vaguely to describe acts of virtual …
We’re only Human: Addressing the Cyber Threat Origin
Private entities are pouring money and manpower into creating the best technologies to help mitigate a host of threats in the cyber realm. The US federal government is increasingly following this …
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A Square Peg in a Round Hole? Turkey’s Fledgling Bid for EU Candidacy
Recent demonstrations in Turkey have awakened a conversation that had fallen out of public interest: should Turkey be admitted into the European Union? Three years have passed since any progress was …
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Skid Row Terrorist
The rubric of terrorism studies embeds terrorist TTPs (Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures) within the overall context of motivations and intent that a terrorist are/is presumed to have. This is …
Bluster or Nuclear War? The Recent Threat Escalation on the Korean Peninsula
With rising tensions in northeast Asia inflamed by recent North Korean threats and ever-greater levels of belligerent rhetoric, the world is on edge, watching the Hermit Kingdom with concern. North …
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When Armies Divide: The Security of Nuclear Arsenals During Revolts, Coups, and Civil Wars
In this brief volume Jenkins takes a detailed look at the General's putsch, which was a 1961 coup attempt by a group of retired French Generals against President Charles de Gaulle. However, it is not …