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20 October 2017

Islam and the Patterns in Terrorism and Violent Extremism

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Recently Anthony H. Cordesman, Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy at Center for Stratrgic and International Studies has come out with, as...

The Wounded Lion in Dragon’s ‘Peaceful Rise’

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By S Rajasimman Source Link As defence and strategıc analyst ın Indıa and China begın to present theır post-crisis analysıs on the r...

India informs US it’s ready to buy Raytheon ISTAR aircraft

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By: Vivek Raghuvanshi    Source Link NEW DELHI ― India has made an official request to purchase two ISTAR aircraft under a governmen...

The Future of US Troops in Afghanistan: Assessing Potential Roles

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By Rajat Ahlawat Source Link In his new strategy for Afghanistan, US President Donald Trump recently decided on increasing the numbe...

China: Towards the 19th Party Congress

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By Bhaskar Roy Source Link The 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is scheduled to start on October 18. The date was...

Secretary Mattis at AUSA: The Threats the US Military Must be Prepared For – Modern War Institute

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by Liam Collins  Secretary of Defense James Mattis kicked off the Association of the United States Army’s (AUSA) Annual Meeting in Was...

North Korean Hackers Now Have Another Link to the Outside World Thanks to Russia

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Source Link On October 1st North Korea established a second link to the worldwide Internet via Russia. This link is via a fiber optic ...

Military Stalemate: How North Korea Could Win a War With the US

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By  Franz-Stefan Gady Source Link North Korea’s defeat in a war with South Korea and the United State s is inevitable. At least th...

Raising the Consequences of Hacking American Companies

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Source Link DOWNLOAD THE REPORT In early October, lawmakers were attempting to glean information from Facebook and Twitter about Rus...

DEADLY OVERCONFIDENCE: TRUMP THINKS MISSILE DEFENSES WORK AGAINST NORTH KOREA, AND THAT SHOULD SCARE YOU

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ANKIT PANDA  AND  VIPIN NARANG Source Link Could a president’s overconfidence in U.S. defensive systems lead to deadly miscalculati...

Trump’s War on Knowledge

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Ariel Dorfman Source Link The date October 12 has been much on my mind this year. It was on this day in 1936 that the fascist forces...

The Middle Eastern Roots of Nuclear Alarmism over North Korea

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By Rebecca Friedman Lissner Nuclear alarmism is reaching a fever pitch in Washington. President Donald Trump has responded to North Ko...

Why the world should worry about North Korea's cyber weapons

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By Joshua Berlinger Source Link North Korea's hackers have been accused of carrying out some of the most audacious cyber attacks...

Massive drill validates Israel’s cyber-secure C4I network

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By: Barbara Opall-Rome  Source Link A two-week drill of the Israel Defense Forces’ Northern Corps ― nearly a year in the making ― ...

Data Bust: Created to Help Counter the Threat of IEDS, the Pentagon’s JIEDDO Turned Out to be a Huge and Very Costly Flop

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Kelsey Atherton Source Link On Oct. 1, 2017, a roadside bomb northwest of Baghdad killed Spc. Alexander W. Missildine. The 20-...

‘Safe Cities Index’ highlights paradox of tech advancement, cyber vulnerability

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By: Brad D. Williams  Source Link The Economist Intelligence Unit released its 2017 Safe Cities Index, a biennial study that ranks 6...

Cyber Command stands up planning cells at combatant commands

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By: Mark Pomerleau Source Link The entities, called Cyber Operations-Integrated Planning Elements, or CO-IPE, are weeks-old. They wi...

Army doubles down on WIN-T’s ‘fight tonight’ problem

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By: Amber Corrin  Source Link Less than two weeks after Army officials announced they plan to nix the service’s $6 billion battlefiel...

4 areas where military cyber forces should focus in cyberspace

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By: Mark Pomerleau   Source Link The cyber domain as an operational environment is still relatively new, and the Department of De...

A device for every soldier? The Army is considering it

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By:  Meghann Myers   Source Link Between the hours soldiers have to spend online for professional military education and the possibil...

Decentralize The Air Force For High-End War: Holmes

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By SYDNEY J. FREEDBERG JR. Source Link AUSA: After a generation of centralized control and absolute air superiority, the US Air Force...
19 October 2017

The Rohingya Crisis in Myanmar: Options for India

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By Sumit Kumar Source Link Ever since Rohingya Muslim militants killed 12 local persons in the Rakhine state of Myanmar on August ...

America’s Mumbai – Modern War Institute

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by John Spencer  Source Link It will take months, possibly years, to fully understand how the senseless attack in Las Vegas will cha...

India informs US it’s ready to buy Raytheon ISTAR aircraft

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By: Vivek Raghuvanshi   Source Link India has made an official request to purchase two ISTAR aircraft under a government-to-governme...

Rise of China: An Enigma

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By Col Anil Athale Source Link Arnold J. Toynbee, a doyen of historian, in his multi volume magnum opus ‘Studies in World History’ h...

Special Report: Seven things to watch at China’s 19th Party Congress

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by James Tunningley   Source Link China’s 19th Party Congress (19PC) will answer some key questions that are preoccupying China-watc...

The Key to Countering Iran

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Source Link Political and economic pressure from the United States will unite Iran's fractious political system behind the Isl...

The Need for a Real New Strategy to Deal with Iran and the Gulf

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By Anthony Cordesman Source Link Early in the Trump Administration, the President signed Executive Orders calling for the developmen...

Drop Zone: OTH Interview with Lt Gen David Deptula, USAF (Ret.)

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Source Link “[The United States] is still undergoing a transition from the industrial age of warfare to the information age. And, even...

The Book Mattis Reads To Be Prepared For War With North Korea

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Source Link Last Monday, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, a retired Marine Corps general with a legendary appetite for military history, ...

The U.S. Thinks About Space Warfare

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By Malcolm Davis Source Link The last couple of weeks have been big ones for space in the U.S.. Vice President Pence chaired the ne...

The nature of warfare is changing. It's time governments caught up

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By RICHARD BARRONS Source Link If the day comes when you wake to find the tap produces no water, your mobile has no signal and your ...

What it Means to Be an Ally: A Vietnamese-American’s View on the US in the Vietnam War Image

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By Tom Le Source Link My mother was a teenager when she made her perilous journey to America as a “boat person.” Undoubtedly hidin...

Cyber operators to commanders: Bring us in early and often

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By: Kathleen Curthoys Source Link The Army’s cyber operators want unit commanders to know they’re ready to bring solutions that can ...

The World Once Laughed at North Korean Cyberpower. No More.

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By DAVID E. SANGER, DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK and NICOLE PERLROTH Source Link A military officer who teaches computer science at the Mang...