Making Germany’s Military Fit for Purpose
If Germany’s Zeitenwende is to be a success, it is not only its security institutions that need to be reviewed. The processes that have...
Starting Bell Rings for U.N Counterterrorism Negotiations with Big Questions Unanswered
United Nations (U.N.) Secretary-General António Guterres released the biannual report on the “Activities of the United Nations system in implementing the United Nations Global...
Another Gaza War? Legal and Strategic Aspects of Israeli Counterterrorism
In its steadily escalating war on Palestinian terror, Israel has a law-based responsibility to limit harm to Arab populations and a concurrent responsibility not...
Environmental and Political Reconciliation Needed for the South China Sea
The South China Sea is a unique natural laboratory for ocean research and exploration. And yet, this rifted basin, dotted with atolls, coral reefs...
Russian Invasion Changed Europe’s Security Environment ‘for Decades’
PENTAGON — Russia’s invasion of Ukraine one year ago has sparked a long-term transformation across European defenses, a top U.S. general told VOA, as...
New Era of Counterintelligence Must Shift Focus to the Gray Zone
Strategic competition in the current global context is a post-counterterrorism-era paradigm shift that demands more aggressive offensive U.S. counterintelligence activities. Rethinking counterintelligence and counterterrorism for great...
No economic ‘knockout’ yet from West’s sanctions on Russia
WASHINGTON — One month into the invasion of Ukraine, President Joe Biden stood in the courtyard of a grand Polish castle and laid out...
Weapons of Mass Disruption: Artificial Intelligence and the Production of Extremist Propaganda
Introduction In late 2022, OpenAI publicly released some of the most sophisticated deep-learning models – DALL-E and Chat GPT. These neural networks rely on...
4 takeaways from this year’s important Munich Security Conference
Dubbed the Davos of Defense, the Munich Security Conference attracts heads of state, generals, intelligence chiefs and top diplomats from around the world. With...
Why North Korea is denying its involvement in Russia’s war in Ukraine
In a case of history repeating itself, the Korean War is set to be revived. Not on the Korean Peninsula but in Eastern Europe....