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28 November 2022

Ukraine is attempting to retake a crucial spit of land that could disrupt Russia's missile barrages

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SINÉAD BAKER source Link Ukraine has confirmed that is trying to regain control of the Kinburn Spit — a thin stretch of land across much of...

GROUND ZERO The Evacuation of the CIA’s Afghan Proxies Has Opened One of the War’s Blackest Boxes

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Fahim Abed Source Link ON A RAINY Saturday morning in May, Hayanuddin Afghan, a former member of a CIA-backed militia that was once his coun...

Why China’s efforts to help world’s largest iPhone factory descended into violent protests, further disrupting Apple’s supply chain

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Ben Jiang Shenzhen and Tracy Qu Source Link Protests over Covid-19 measures and employee benefits that descended into violent clashes betw...

The red line: Biden and Xi’s secret Ukraine talks revealed

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Owen Matthews Source Link Since the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, China has played a decisive – though publicly low-profile – r...

How HIMARS Rocket Launchers Helped Ukraine ‘Get Back in the Fight’ Against Russia

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THOMAS MUTCH Source Link KHERSON CITY, UKRAINE—It seemed like every inch of the town square was draped in blue and yellow flags. An old wom...

Cloud Empires How Digital Platforms Are Overtaking the State and How We Can Regain Control

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Vili Lehdonvirta Source Link The early Internet was a lawless place, populated by scam artists who made buying or selling anything online r...

Industry Perspective: JADC2 Could Introduce Cyber Risks At Unprecedented Scale

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Jason Atwell Source Link Technology has always played a major role in military competition, and military competition has always leaned heavi...

The Ukraine War in data: After 9 months of war, what the data tells us

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Alex Leeds Matthews,Matt Stiles, Tom Nagorski Source Link It’s nine months ago that Russian troops went into Ukraine. Nine months ago that R...

Putin's only alliance could crumble after special summit shows Russian despot isolated

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ALESSANDRA SCOTTO DI SANTOLO Source Link The Moscow-led group of ex-Soviet states met in Armenia's capital Yerevan on Wednesday. Vladimi...

SAB: change of power in Russia due to Putin’s failing health or coup is unlikely

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Source Link Since February 2022 different mass media outlets have been reporting more and more claims and assumptions regarding possible pol...

The war in Ukraine is exposing the limits of cyber warfare — and Russian hackers

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Thomas Macaulay Source Link It’s safe to say that Putin’s invasion of Ukraine hasn’t gone to plan. Russian forces are suffering mounting set...

Hamas’ cyber terror is a test case for other non-state players, report says

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Ruth Marks Eglash Source Link JERUSALEM, Israel — Iranian-backed Palestinian terror group Hamas , the de facto rulers of the impoverished Ga...

Cyber Operations During Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine in 2022

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Nurlan Aliyev Source Link Russia has been known as a capable actor in conducting a wide range of cyber espionage and sabotage operations sin...

Why Imran Khan Can’t Outplay Pakistan’s Military

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Abbas Nasir Source Link After surviving an assassination attempt on Nov. 3 while leading a protest march, Mr. Khan accused Shehbaz Sharif, w...

Inside the US: Muslim Brotherhood Member Calls for Jihadist Terrorism Worldwide

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Cynthia Farahat Source Link A Muslim Brotherhood propagandist based in New York City has called for jihad both in the United States and inte...

Defense Primer: Ballistic Missile Defense

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Source Link The United States has been developing and deploying ballistic missile defenses (BMD) to defend against enemy missiles continuous...

Drone sales to Russia spark a debate in Iran

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Javad Heiran-Nia Source Link The revelation that Iran has sold drones to Russia that the latter is now using to attack Ukraine has touched ...

Climate Change and the Instrumentalisation of Natural Resources in the Continuum of War: the Role of Non-state Armed Groups and International Responses

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Irene Mia Source Link The increasing scarcity of key natural resources can increase their intrinsic value as a tool for military and politic...

Behind lofty declarations, major Muslim and Hindu groups compete for power

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James M. Dorsey Source link As Indonesia passed the chairmanship of the Group of 20 (G-20) to India earlier this month, major Muslim and Hin...

Six reasons the Afghan government utterly collapsed during US withdrawal

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Adam Weinstein Source Link Last week, the official Afghanistan reconstruction watchdog released a report assessing why the Afghan governmen...
27 November 2022

Artillery Is Breaking in Ukraine. It’s Becoming a Problem for the Pentagon.

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John Ismay and Thomas Gibbons-Neff Source Link WASHINGTON — Ukrainian troops fire thousands of explosive shells at Russian targets every day...

Is Imran Khan Pakistan’s Comeback Kid?

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Lynne O’Donnell Source Link Imran Khan, the cricketer-turned-politician and Pakistan’s last prime minister, is the man considered most likel...

The White House Is Pushing Congress to Rein in Big Tech Before the GOP Takes Over the House

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ERIC CORTELLESSA Source Link With only a few weeks left to pass two high-profile antitrust bills targeting Big Tech, the White House is priv...

What We Lose if We Lose Twitter

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. Howard W. French Source Link In the United States, the daily news accounts of Twitter’s decline and possible demise can give the impressio...

Ukrainians Returning to Liberated Towns Find Utter Destruction

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Sam Skove Source Link Standing in the ruins of his niece’s house in eastern Ukraine, Mykola Myroneko, an upbeat 58-year-old man with a trim ...

All the Kremlin’s Trolls

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Amy Mackinnon Source Link In the summer of 2018, a little-known Russian journalist arrived in Washington with a bold plan to test the limits...

As Winter Descends, Europe Cools on Ukrainian Refugees

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LISA ABEND/DUBLIN Source Link When he finally arrived in Dublin on Oct. 21, Serghey Chudaev was flooded with relief. A comedian and televisi...

The Solution to Climate Change Isn’t Demilitarization

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Erin Sikorsky Source Link Since U.S. President Joe Biden took office in 2021, the U.S. military has released a Climate Adaptation Plan, a Cl...

The Franco-German Motor Is on Fire

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Caroline de Gruyter Source Link One day during the 1990s, former European Commission official Riccardo Perissich, an Italian citizen, bumped...

Billionaires Won’t Save Ukraine’s Internet

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Olga Boichak Source Link On Oct. 3, tech billionaire Elon Musk tweeted a strikingly ill-informed proposal to end Russia’s war in Ukraine—on...

Lessons for Europe from China’s quest for semiconductor self-reliance

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Alicia García-Herrero Pauline Weil Source Link 1 Introduction Semiconductors are China’s main import item, ahead of oil. They are a critical...

India’s military: a tech leap risks a nuclear chasm

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RAJESH BASRUR WU SHANG-SU Source Link Propelled by the Himalayan face-off with China, India’s military machine has been rapidly incorporatin...

Xi Jinping is not looking to go to war over Taiwan anytime soon

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Derek Grossman Source Link Derek Grossman is a senior defense analyst at the think tank RAND Corp. in Santa Monica, California and adjunct p...

India Boosts Its Border Infrastructure in Arunachal Pradesh

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Rajeev Bhattacharyya Source Link Hectic construction and repair of roads and bridges are visible in large parts of the Indian border state o...

Space and Technology Were Big Winners at China’s 20th Party Congress

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Namrata Goswami Source Link For China, investing in indigenous development of space tech as well as more general science and technology (S...