Maritime incidents in the Persian Gulf
On June 13
last, the US Fifth Fleet - stationed in Manama, Bahrain - received two
different danger alerts - one at 6.12 and the other...
Tanker Incidents: Who Blinks First?
The recent tanker incidents in
the Gulf of Oman have heightened the potential for a dangerous conflict. Now
that the US has accused Iran of being...
March to Tripoli, or a Third Civil War in Libya: Initial Results
The military offensive of the Libyan National Army (LNA) led by Field
Marshal (according to the House of Representatives sitting in Tobruk) Khalifa
Haftar on Tripoli...
Nuclear weapons are vulnerable to cyber threats
According to a new report from the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (NTI), Cyber Nuclear Weapons Study Group, US nuclear
weapons can’t be effectively protected against cyberattacks with technical
means...
Sri Lankan Attacks Linkage to International Terrorism
Sri Lanka
has ramped up security nationwide as fears grow for its minority Muslims could
face severe religious violence in the worst turmoil erupted after Easter
bombings...
A Europe that protects: Good progress on tackling hybrid threats
The European Union and Member States have made good progress in tackling hybrid threats through a number of concerted actions in a wide range...
The Capriciousness of Hybrid Warfare in South Asia
There is a famous quote by Sun Tzu that
‘the supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting’. This saying
aptly describes the...
2019: Towards a new world (dis)order
The
Munich Security Conference is a leading annual forum on international security
and strategy. The theme of its recent installment, The Great Puzzle: Who Will Pick Up...
Central Asian Jihadi Groups Joined Taliban’s “Al-Fath Jihadi Operations”
Al
Qaeda-backed jihadist groups Katibat Imam al Bukhari (KIB), the Islamic Jihad
Union (IJU) and the Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP), consisting mainly of Uzbeks
from the Fergana...
The Russian Mafia
Since 1992, the Russian word Mafyia has
been officially used in the Russian Federation’s documents to refer above all
to organized crime, structured through stable groups...