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17 December 2016

** Making data analytics work for you—instead of the other way around

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By Helen Mayhew, Tamim Saleh, and Simon Williams Source Link Download this article Does your data have a purpose? If not, you’re spinning ...

** Countering Fidayeen Attacks

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Vivek Chadha   There has been an upsurge in violence in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) in recent years. This has been accompanied by increa...

Waking the Beast: India’s Defense Reforms Under Modi

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By  Jeff M. Smith Source Link Modi and Parrikar deserve credit for shaking things up, but much work remains to be done. “India h...

Why the India-Russia Relationship Works

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By Aparna Pande and Hannah Thoburn Source Link What has kept this old friendship going, well into the early 21st century?  It’s ...

5 Questions Trump Should Raise about Afghanistan

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Daniel R. DePetris Source Link Are U.S. objectives realistic? One of the more disturbing aspects of the 2016 presidential ca...

The Tangled History of the Afghanistan-India-Pakistan Triangle

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By Ahmad Bilal Khalil Source Link Kabul’s foreign policy approach has shifted between favoring India and Pakistan since the partit...

China Belching Fire - Signaling or Insecure?

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By Lt Gen Prakash Katoch Source Link After China tested the simultaneous launch of 10 x DF-21 missiles in a single salvo during Nove...

China and India Aren't Afraid to Use Money as a Weapon

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Rishika Chauhan Source Link While India and China publicly disapprove of economic coercion, both have used it as an instrument of st...

Russian General: Russia Now Fields 400 Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles

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By  Franz-Stefan Gady Source Link Also, Russia’s newest intercontinental ballistic missile will be operational by 2019-2020, a sen...

Why America’s Marines Need the Amphibious Combat Vehicle Program to Counter Russia and China

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Dan Goure Source Link The U.S. military has a dilemma. Having forgone more than a generation of modernization and facing rising advers...

Putin Is Waging Information Warfare. Here’s How to Fight Back.

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By MARK GALEOTTI Source Link PRAGUE — Welcome to 21st-century conflict, more Machiavellian than military, where hacks, leaks and ...

Bitcoin Is Being Monitored by an Increasingly Wary U.S. Government

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By  Leah McGrath Goodman Source Link On a mountainous stretch along the Orange River between South Africa and Namibia lies a small t...

Pacific Power: America’s Asian Alliances Beyond Burden-Sharing

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Zack Cooper Source Link America’s Asian allies face a predicament. Regional security threats are growing as China’s military moderni...

In 1968, a B-52 Bomber Crashed (With 4 Super Lethal Nuclear Weapons Onboard That 'Exploded')

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Matthew Gault Source Link Throughout the 1950s and ’60s American bombers carrying nuclear weapons crisscrossed the globe, ready at...

Gathering Intelligence Is Dangerous. So Is Not Reading It.

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By BENJAMIN HAAS Source Link Donald J. Trump has so far chosen to receive only one intelligence briefing each week. His decisi...

One Month Into Demonetisation, These Are The Issues That Are Now Being Discussed

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V Anantha Nageswaran  Source Link However, what is clear is that if the law of unintended consequences combined with bad planning...

TAKE THESE STEPS TO CHANGE OUR ARMY

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Source Link LT. GEN. H.R. MCMASTER LT. COL. MATT RASMUSSEN In the early 1970s, a shrinking U.S. Army with a reduced modernizatio...

THE THREE MAJOR EFFECTS OF MILITARY BLOGS

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MAJ. CRISPIN J. BURKE Source Link Not long ago, the Army had a blog problem. Gen. Peter Schoomaker, then-Army chief of staff, ca...

Should the United States Wage War for Friends?

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Christopher A. Preble Source Link I was honored to participate in the Soho Forum’s successful debate earlier this week in New York ...

Future Foundry A New Strategic Approach to Military-Technical Advantage

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By  Ben FitzGerald ,  Alexandra Sander , and  Jacqueline Parziale https://www.cnas.org/publications/reports/future-foundry Download P...

Hackers Stole Data From More Than 1 Billion Yahoo User Accounts

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Source Link Yahoo says it believes hackers stole data from more than one billion user accounts in August 2013, making it the email com...

CYBERCOM evaluating cyber mission force

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By:  Mark Pomerleau Source Link “There is actually a study going on right now at CYBERCOM, cyber mission force 2.0, to look at do w...

The Invisible Costs of Cyber Weapons

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By Herb Lin Source Link     For kinetic weapons like tanks, production costs generally outweigh research and development. For cyber ...

DDoS attacks have gone from a minor nuisance to a possible new form of global warfare

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Joon Ian Wong Source Link In September 1996 an internet service provider (ISP) in New York was taken down by a flood of traffic. Com...

Govt to audit banking tech to check cyber crime

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Source Link In a bid to tackle cybercrime, the central government is planning to review the Information Technology Act. A technolo...
16 December 2016

** The End of the Anglo-American Order

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BY IAN BURUMANOV Sou rce Link For decades, the United States and Britain’s vision of democracy and freedom defined the postwar world...

** Terrorists want to destroy our cities. We can’t let them

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Katherine Aguirre Source Link Cities are the new frontline of terrorism. The goal of today’s terrorist is not only to target civi...

India-Pakistan war of 1971: 13 days that shook the subcontinent

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Source Link by  Sushant Singh   Sushant Singh writes a brief history of the birth of Bangladesh — the revolt of Bengali nationalism ...

Vulnerable in cyberspace

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Arun Mohan Sukumar Source Link The ‘Legion’ hacks expose the dire state of cybersecurity in India. Frequent data breaches will stead...

General’s first gambit

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Rana Banerji Source Link Pakistan army chief’s choice of officers reflects dynamics within the army — and with civilian administrati...

Aleppo falls, no end to conflict in Syria

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Source Link Talmiz Ahmad The situation changed when rebel forces from the neighbouring villages penetrated Aleppo. On Tuesda...

India to Test Fire Nuclear Missile Capable of Hitting China

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Source Link By  Franz-Stefan Gady India is reportedly preparing to test-launch the nuclear-capable Agni-V ICBM in late December ...

India outguns Russia to become 4th largest defence spender

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Source Link India now belongs to the list of top five defence spenders in the world with more than $50 billion devoted to its military...

'We fought the battle as if it was the last thing we'd ever do'

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'Each soldier was my brother in arms.' 'We fought together and achieved glory for India.' 'We fought on with o...