Defense
Pakistan’s Tight Rope Walk between Iran and Saudi Arabia
Pakistan’s recent decision of sending a contingent of slightly above 1000 troops to Saudi Arabia apparently in violation of its own parliamentary resolution of...
MAD’s Midlife Crisis: The Impact of US-Russia Rivalry on International Arms Control
The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty), signed between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1987, required both countries...
Infrastructure-based information system landscape
The discussion of cyber defense strategies is about a variety of issues, among which the most important issue is whether the significance of the...
US Nuclear Policy Upgraded
Experts and politicians are familiar with several variants of the 2018 NPR. The Huffington Post published a draft in mid-January. On February 2, in...
Assessing United Nation’s commitment to “resolve conflict”: The need to re-strategize Peacekeeping missions
Numerous peacekeeping missions conducted by the UN “drastically” failed to “maintain peace and security” in the “conflict-rigged” regions. The article focuses on the peacekeeping...
India’s Quest for Ballistic Missile Defense Shield
A Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system is a system that defends any country against possible incoming missile threat. It intercepts targets and destroys enemy...
Strategy of the concept of cyber defense
The discussion of cyber defense strategies is about a variety of issues, among which the most important issue is whether the significance of the...
The Security Complex of the Persian Gulf
Authors: Mohammad Ghaderi & Javad Heiran-Nia
In accord with Barry Buzan’s understanding of Regional Security Complex, the Persian Gulf region is itself a security complex...
The new US strategy and the possibility of conflict with Russia and China
Defense Secretary James Mattis while unveiling the strategy of the US Defense Department on January 19, 2018 underscored the key priorities of the US...
International Security and «Turbid Waters» of Cyberspace
Among many topics, cyberspace issues occupy a special place on the current agenda. This relatively new but rapidly expanding dimension of the world economy...