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28 July 2022

Sanctions, Cyber, and Crypto: How Pyongyang Can Exploit the War in Ukraine

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Jason Bartlett Source Link According to North Korean state media, Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui recently acknowledged the People’s Republic...

Foreign Fighters, Foreign Volunteers and Mercenaries in the Ukrainian Armed Conflict

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Tanya Mehra LL.M, Abigail Thorley Source Link Shortly after the expanded Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, President Zelensky...

Sense and Nonsense behind Energy Price Caps

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Daniel Gros,  Nathalie Tocci Source Link In official circles at the highest level, from the G7 to the European Council, a tense debate is ta...

The De-Globalisation of Oil: Risks and Implications from the Politicisation of Energy Markets

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Rafael Ramírez Source Link The EU’s announced ban on Russian oil imports is a strong political measure that will heavily impact internationa...

Spectrum Sharing: Holy Grail or False Hope?

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Joe Kane Source Link INTRODUCTION As the world becomes more wireless, the radio frequencies that carry those wireless signals are becoming m...

Social Media Misinformation and the Prevention of Political Instability and Mass Atrocities

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Kristina Hook · Ernesto Verdeja Source Link Introduction Social media’s enormous impact is unmistakable. Facebook sees approximately 300 m...

Drone Warfare in Ukraine: Understanding the Landscape

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Elias Yousif Source Link Introduction For more than a decade, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) were the lethal purview of the great powers, d...

Autonomous Weapons Systems: UN Expert Talks Facing Failure

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Source Link The first of two GGE meetings on AWS planned for 2022 was held in March in Geneva. Russia used the forum to justify its illegal ...

Europe in 2030: Boosting public-private cooperation in hybrid crises

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Source Link Effective policies result from fully-informed answers to the right ‘what-if’ questions. In a world characterized by complex chal...

The German Industrial Power in Danger: The Double Shock of Energy Transition and Geopolitical Risk

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Source Link The German manufacturing industry at the heart of the German economic activity has been confronted in the past years with conjun...

US and Taliban make progress on Afghan reserves, but big gaps remain

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Charlotte Greenfield and Jonathan Landay Source Link KABUL/WASHINGTON, July 26 (Reuters) - U.S. and Taliban officials have exchanged proposa...

U.S. Officials Grow More Concerned About Potential Action by China on Taiwan

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Edward Wong, David E. Sanger and Amy Qin Source Link WASHINGTON — The Biden administration has grown increasingly anxious this summer about ...

‘I Never Had To Look Up’ Before: Top U.S. Special Ops General On Drone Threat

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JOSEPH TREVITHICK Source Link The head of U.S. Special Operations Command, U.S. Army Gen. Richard Clarke, recently highlighted the threat th...

NATO Is a Luxury Good the United States Doesn’t Need

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Justin Logan Source Link For decades, the most widely held belief in the Washington foreign-policy establishment has been that NATO is treme...

NATIONAL SECURITY SEARCH ENGINE: GOOGLE’S RANKS ARE FILLED WITH CIA AGENTS

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Source Link Google – one of the largest and most influential organizations in the modern world – is filled with ex-CIA agents. Studying empl...

Guterres Has a Lot Riding on the Ukraine Deal

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Richard Gowan Source Link Last week, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was in Istanbul for what he described as “ probably t...

Europe’s war economy gets real

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AMERICA HERNANDEZ Source Link At the last scheduled meeting of European commissioners before the summer recess on Wednesday, Brussels techn...

The Hope and Fear of the Sri Lankan Protest Movement

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Source Link Last week, protesters in Colombo stormed the residence of Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the President of Sri Lanka, who had fled the count...

Are the Fancy New Weapons We’re Sending Ukraine Really a “Game Changer”?

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FRED KAPLAN Source Link The big news coming out of the war in Ukraine this past month is President Biden’s shipment of a high-tech weapon ca...

Secret Or Reality: Can Aramco Produce 15 Million Barrels A Day?

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Wael Mahdi Source Link I guess by now we all know that Saudi Arabia will not raise its production capacity beyond 13 million barrels a day ...

Are Violent Populist Agitations A Panacea For Socio-Political Problems?

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P. K. Balachandran Source Link Disruptive and violent populist movements have undoubtedly registered successes, ending oppressive regimes a...

Will India Try Again for a Military Base in Seychelles?

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Dennis Hardy Source Link News that China is considering a military base in Madagascar puts in question India’s failure, so far, to secure it...

The Great Rewiring: How Global Supply Chains Are Reacting to Today’s Geopolitics

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Sujai Shivakumar, Gregory Arcuri and Charles Wessner Source Link Global supply chains, particularly in technologies of strategic value, are ...

CNO Seeks Not Just Interoperability But Interchangeability With Foreign Militaries

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CAITLIN M. KENNEY Source Link ABOARD THE USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN—The U.S. Navy’s top officer is setting a new bar for coal...

The problem with ‘great power competition’

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Ishaan Tharoor Source Link Over the past half decade in Washington, an old concept has taken new and even bipartisan life. Republicans, Demo...

How Unmanned Warships Might Provide A New Paradigm For Naval Shipbuilding

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Loren Thompson Source Link The U.S. Navy is operating or developing nearly a dozen different unmanned sea vehicles for use in maritime secur...

Scottish Independence and the Risk of ‘Unenlightened Secession’

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Alexander Brotman Source Link As First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has set the date for a second Scottish independence referendum in October 2...

Russia building a satellite-blinding laser weapon

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IAIN BOYD Source Link Russia is building a new ground-based laser facility for interfering with satellites orbiting overhead, according to a...

Germany’s Economy Is Carried on the Rhine’s Shrinking Back

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Elisabeth Braw Source Link “Deep river, my home is over Jordan,” the eponymous spiritual goes. The Jordan River, alas, is not very deep anym...

Fact: Americans Are Fighting And Dying In Ukraine

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Steve Balestrieri Source Link Ukraine War Update: Two Americans KIA In Ukraine, Russia Trying To Win Support in Africa, Middle East – Two Am...

The Global Food Crisis Shouldn’t Have Come As a Surprise

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Christopher B. Barrett Source Link The world’s agricultural and food systems face a perfect storm. Overlapping crises, including the ongoing...
27 July 2022

Just the Beginning: Why India-Philippines Ties Will Continue to Blossom

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Don McLain Gill Source Link The Press Trust of India recently revealed that senior officials from the Philippines and India are engaged i...

The U.S. Military Is Already Building the AI of Tomorrow

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Kris Osborn Source Link The commanding general of the Air Force Research Lab is already thinking about the next generation of artificial int...