Considerations on the current strategy of the French government
1)France effectively cooperated with the Bashar el Assad’ Syria and the Russian Aerospace Forces in the war against Daesh/Isis. President Hollande sent the aircraft...
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi: The Islamic State and the Leader who Revolves Around It
Ibrahim Awwad Ibrahim Al-Badri, or more recently named Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is the leader of the most notorious terrorist organization in the world, the...
The East Turkestan Islamic Movement
According to some very recent official Syrian sources, last April over 5,000 jihadists entered from the Turkish border, heading for Idlib and Aleppo. They...
The Grand Cyber Spy Game: Russia, America, and China Stealing the World One Byte at a Time
Dr. Matthew Crosston & Anonymous(*) Every month another story of cybertheft linked to China or Russia emerges. Recent data breaches at Target, United Airlines,...
The ISIS psychological warfare and the attack against the EgyptAir plane
So far Al Baghdadi’s Caliphate has been very successful in using the techniques of psychological warfare. From professional footage and commercials of its ferocious...
FSB’s Snowden War:Using the American NSA against Itself
Russia's understanding of information warfare must be understood in the context of Russian statism. Russian leaders, particularly President Vladimir Putin, view state power as...
The Islamic State’s fake story: Russian FSB spy
In May 2016, Al-Hayat Media Center of the Islamic State released a new issue of Russian magazine “Istok”, which contains an article about so-called...
Progressive Positivity: SCO Security Agendas and Transnational Policing
Dr. Matthew Crosston & Anonymous (*) Cooperation between the nations of the SCO on terrorism, separatism, and extremism can be viewed as progressively positive....
The Jury’s Still Out: Can America Ever Match Russian Cyber Innovation?
In February 2015, James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence in the United States, announced that the appraisal of Russian cyber capability and intention...
The Geographical Lynchpin: Great Power Jockeying in the Caspian
Zbigniew Brzezinkski defined “Eurasia” as one of the most important geopolitical concepts. He observed, “Ever since the continents started interacting politically, some five hundred...