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28 March 2017

*** China set to gain a decisive military advantage

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Source Link Nitin Pai More than a trillion yuans, the restructuring of the PLA calls for a wholesale review of India’s defence stru...

*** Nuclear power promise fades

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Source Link   Brahma Chellaney It is often said that China could become the first country in the world to age before it gets rich. ...

*** China´s Kashmir Policies and Crisis Management in South Asia

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By I-wei Jennifer Chang  Summary  Since the 1980s, China’s policy on Kashmir has shifted from a strong pro-Pakistani stance to a m...

** Shed the Indus albatross

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Brahma Chellaney,  The Times of India At a time when India is haunted by a deepening water crisis, the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) ha...

** Notes from Europe's Periphery

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Friedman's Weekly By George Friedman Both ends of the Continent's periphery are shifting away from the core. I’m writing...

Is The Aadhar Grounded In Adequate Law And Regulations?

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Source Link Vrinda Bhandari and Renuka Sane Aadhar enrollment goes on. Aadhar being made compulsory for various public services. A...

Nuclear Ban Treaty Conference and Universal Nuclear Disarmament

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Source Link   Manpreet Sethi A nuclear weapons free world (NWFW) has been on the global agenda since 1945. Only, it has never been a...

Aadhaar Over-Reach: Making It A Must For PAN Will Leave Millions Vulnerable

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Source Link R Jagannathan First things first: this should happen only when the ordinary citizen can be guaranteed full privacy prote...

Has Afghanistan Become America's Afghanistan?

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Source Link Paul R. Pillar Fifteen years and counting. America’s longest war keeps getting longer. The very duration of the expedi...

Afghan Taliban capture crucial town of Sangin in Afghanistan’s Helmand Province

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BBC News March 23, 2017 The Taliban have captured the crucial south Afghan district of Sangin after a year-long battle, officials ...

America Needs an "Engage and Contain" Strategy for China

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Robert D. Blackwill Source Link Will the Trump administration develop the right grand strategy to deal with China and protect U.S. v...

Breaking down China’s electronic warfare tactics

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Source Link By: Mark Pomerleau In the wake of Russia's demonstrations of advanced electromagnetic spectrum and communications ja...

North Korea Might Be Getting Ready for Its Next Nuke Test

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By  John Power Source Link U.S. and South Korean officials are bracing for Pyongyang’s sixth nuclear test. North Korea may be ...

Get Ready, NATO: Russia's New Air Defense Tech (Think Missiles and Lasers) Looks Dangerous

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Dave Majumdar Source Link Russia will start research and development (R&D) work on a new generation of surface-to-air missiles f...

What We Know About the London Attack

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Source Link   Four people were killed — including the attacker and one police officer — and 40 others were injured in the March 22 veh...

Help Wanted: National Security and State Department Reporter

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Source Link The National Interest, a print and online magazine focusing on international affairs, foreign policy, national security, d...

Counter-drone is the new counter-IED

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Source Link By: Mark Pomerleau The current effort to thwart the “ingenious” application of unmanned aerial systems being used by the...

The U.S. Army Can't Get Ambushed by the Future

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Douglas Macgregor Source Link More money without new leadership won’t fix the Army. When U.S. forces begin the destruction o...

Why No Nation Wants to Go to War Against America's Military in a Fair Fight

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Source Link Robert Farley The ability of the United States to completely destroy a more or less modern Iraqi military establishment ...

Rebuild Our Defenses For The Information Age

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Source Link By  MACKENZIE EAGLEN President Trump has pledged to rebuild both America’s military and its infrastructure—priorities th...

Visualizing The Global Weapons Trade

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Source Link The visualization below sums up the global weapons trade during the Obama era, minus data from 2016. It was created by...

Former top cyber officials: ‘Don’t stove pipe cyber’

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Source link by Mark Pomerleau Ken Foster, a computer network analyst with the California Army National Guard Computer Network Defen...

Army Central can’t 'look the other way' from network vulnerabilities

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By: Mark Pomerleau Source Link The Army is working cyber into everything under its purview. U.S. Army Central decided to go one s...

How The Citizen Lab polices the world's digital spies

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Source Link Anita Elash DECEMBER 22, 2016 TORONTO—It's well known that WeChat censors conversations between hundreds of million...

The battle between Washington and Silicon Valley over encryption

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by Sara Sorcher Passcode When Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson arrived in San Francisco for one of the world’s largest techn...

This is the Pentagon's vision of the Interne

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Source Link This is the Pentagon's vision of the Internet. The US military's cyber warriors, unlike soldiers patrolling a b...
27 March 2017

*** China's Urbancide in Tibet

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Source Link By Rinzin Dorjee China’s urbanization policies have a particularly telling impact on Tibet. The State Council of C...

*** Assessing and Evaluating Department of Defense Efforts to Inform, Influence, and Persuade

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by RAND Corporation To achieve key national security objectives, the U.S. government and U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) must effecti...

** Beware the rhyme of history

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Source Lin k by  Arun Prakash It is “Peace for our time”, declared British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain on September 30, 1938, a...

** BUILDING CASTLES IN THE AIR: CRITIQUE OF THE FIRST USE BY INDIA HYPOTHESIS

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Source Link   by Manpreet Sethi Imminent use of nuclear weapons by Pakistan will make India go first, carry out a comprehensive first...

America Can't Terror-Proof Afghanistan

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Source Link Barnett R. Rubin More U.S. troops in Afghanistan may result in more direct combat with the Taliban. It is a truth ...

The Graveyard of Empires and Big Data

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BY SHARON WEINBERGER Source Link The only tiki bar in eastern Afghanistan had an unusual payment program. A sign inside read simply,...

Will China’s ‘One Belt, One Road’ Initiative Deliver?

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Source Link As advertised by Beijing, the “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR) initiative, China’s grand scheme for knitting a network of roads...

The Shocking Way a War Between China and America Could Begin

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Source Link Chen Pokong In the air, the American and Japanese pilots reigned supreme. Chinese fighters proved no match for American ...