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24 June 2015

BAD GUYS KNOW WHAT WORKS: ASYMMETRIC WARFARE AND THE THIRD OFFSET

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Benjamin Locks June 23, 2015 “There are only two ways to fight the US: stupidly [conventionally] or asymmetrically” — Lt. Gen. H...

The Inequality of War

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BY EDWARD DELMAN JUNE 18, 2015 http://www.defenseone.com/threats/2015/06/inequality-war/115678/?oref=d-river A new report confir...

What Successful Strategists Read

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L Block (British, 1848–1901) The Bibliophile’s Desk  https://medium.com/the-bridge/what-successful-strategists-read-57f5f800d742 Aar...

Israel conducts air strike over the border in Lebanon to 'destroy its own downed drone'

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Source Link Israeli war plane reportedly struck a remote area in Lebanon’s western Bekaa region to destroy a drone which landed over t...
23 June 2015

Myanmar Operation: Why Pakistan is so rattled

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By Divya Kumar Soti 20 Jun , 2015 http://www.indiandefencereview.com/news/myanmar-operation-why-pakistan-is-so-rattled/ Eve...

Digitizing Defence & Security - beyond Digital India

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By Lt Gen Prakash Katoch 22 Jun , 2015 http://www.indiandefencereview.com/news/digitizing-defence-security-beyond-digital-india/ ...

India’s Lagging Human Capital

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By Asit K. Biswas and Kris Hartley June 22, 2015 http://thediplomat.com/2015/06/indias-lagging-human-capital/ A new report sho...

How India only cares about Northeast when it's a national security threat story

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SHEKHAR GUPTA 19-06-2015 Source LInk It's sad how we lecture our distant ethnicities and minorities on unity in diversity, but...

Taliban vs. ISIS: The Islamic State Is Doomed in Afghanistan

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Akhilesh Pillalamarri June 21, 2015  Source Link Five reasons why the Islamic State can't prevail. The Islamic State (IS...

From cockfighting to buzkashi, Afghanistan’s pastimes are as brutal as the country’s history.

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Source Link A chapandaz (horseman) on a white horse reaches for the calf carcass as two teammates, one on either side, protect him fro...

A new future for the Himalayan rivers

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June 10, 2015 http://www.thedailystar.net/op-ed/politics/new-future-the-himalayan-rivers-94603 Major rivers of South Asia with origi...

Controversy over Lipu-Lekh Pass: Is Nepal’s Stance Politically Motivated?

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Nihar R Nayak June 08, 2015 http://www.idsa.in/idsacomments/ControversyoverLipu-LekhPass_nnayak_080615.html After lying dormant ...

A Boost to Sub-Regionalism in South Asia

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By Sridhar Ramaswamy June 21, 2015 http://thediplomat.com/2015/06/a-boost-to-sub-regionalism-in-south-asia/ A landmark agreeme...

China is outflanking Russia in the struggle to woo Europe

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Olivia Gippner, The Conversation http://scroll.in/article/735526/china-is-outflanking-russia-in-the-struggle-to-woo-europe Neither R...

Is North Korea's 'Byungjin Line' on the US-China Strategic Agenda?

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By  Ankit Panda June 20, 2015 Source Link Are the United States and China on the same page regarding North Korea’s Byungjin line...

China: Africa's New Power Broker

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Alex Fielding June 22, 2015  http://nationalinterest.org/feature/china-africas-new-power-broker-13157?page=show In South Sudan...

China’s Military Strategy

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https://medium.com/the-bridge/china-s-military-strategy-fd81ad7f66b8 Challenge and Opportunity for the U.S. China outlined a strat...

CHINESE HACKERS HAD A YEAR TO ACCESS OPM SECURITY CLEARANCE SYSTEM

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by  JOHN HAYWARD 20 Jun 2015 Source Link The bombshells just keep coming in the Office of Personnel Management’s hack, which is bi...

Tajikistan's Former Special Police Commander Appears in Second ISIS Video

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By  Catherine Putz June 19, 2015 Source Link In his second video, Gulmurod Halimov threatens his brother and a government cler...

Meet Saudi Arabia's Biggest (and Most Controversial) Twitter Star

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David Andrew Weinberg Oren Adaki June 22, 2015  Source Link Saudi Arabia continues to coddle extremist preachers like Saleh bi...

Information Warfare: What Islamic Terrorists Love And Hate Most Of All

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http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htiw/articles/20150618.aspx June 18, 2015: In May 2015 Islamic terrorists in northwest India (Kashmir...

Is the Islamic State on the Rise in Gaza?

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BY  GREGG CARLSTROM JUNE 17, 2015  Source Link Hamas is fighting a group that’s even more radical and violent than it is.  ...

BLOOD YEAR Terror and the Islamic State

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DAVID KILCULLEN https://www.quarterlyessay.com/essay/2015/05/blood-year/extract Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in t...

Anti-intellectualism Is Killing America

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by  David Niose   Jun 20, 2015 Source LInk Social dysfunction can be traced to the abandonment of reason The tragedy in Charle...

The Odd American View of Negotiation

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PAUL PILLAR June 20, 2015  Source Link One of the unfortunate corollaries of American exceptionalism is a warped and highly asymme...

The Agreement That Will Save Ukraine

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Noel Anderson June 22, 2015  http://nationalinterest.org/feature/the-agreement-will-save-ukraine-13156?page=show Here's ho...

Exposed: Iran's Super Strategy to Crush America in a War

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Zachary Keck June 20, 2015  Source Link Iran would be able to impose prohibitive costs on the U.S. military, even before the o...

Intelligence: Death By Cellphone

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http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htintel/articles/20150614.aspx June 14, 2015: Cellphone cameras have become a major source of militar...

Martin van Creveld explains why our actions in the Syrian civil war will fail

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By Martin van Creveld 11 June 2015 Source Link Summary: Today Martin van Creveld, one of our generation’s most acute geopolitic...

The Only Thing Worse than Misusing SOF is Policy Makers Misusing SOF Operational Methods as a Strategy

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by  David S. Maxwell June 17, 2015 Source Link The Only Thing Worse than Misusing SOF is Policy Makers Misusing SOF Operational Me...

Stratfor has 11 chilling predictions for what the world will look like a decade from now

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Source Link Russia will collapse ... "There will not be an uprising against Moscow, but Moscow's withering ability t...

The New World Disorder

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By  Fred Kaplan Source LInk Not in our backyard: Islamic State militants stand behind what are said to be Ethiopian Christians in W...

The ISIS Twitter census: Defining and describing the population of ISIS supporters on Twitter

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By: J.M. Berger and Jonathon Morgan Although much ink has been spilled on ISIS’s activity on Twitter, very basic questions about the ...

Google, Apple, Microsoft and Mozilla team up to create faster browsers

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by  ABHIMANYU GHOSHAL Source Link Engineers at Google , Apple , Microsoft and Mozilla are partnering to create WebAssembly (a.k.a...

Japan: Controversy Over the National Anthem

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By  Kyla Ryan June 22, 2015 http://thediplomat.com/2015/06/japan-controversy-over-the-national-anthem/ Educators and bureaucra...