Security
NUKE APPEAL: Why Russia Won’t Give Up the Bomb
While the United States emphasizes reduced reliance on nuclear weapons, the Russian Federation continues to stress the importance of its nuclear arsenal in its...
The DAESH Civil Governance Blackhole: Iraq, Iran, Quds, and Kurds
The push to take back Ramadi has recently highlighted a litany of convoluted policy and societal sectarian concerns that have created pathways for DAESH...
Global Firepower in the Caspian: A Comparative Analysis
The following compilation, piggy-backing on the overwhelming positive response given from the last edition of the Caspian Project where Caspian littorals were compared within...
Atlas Triumphant – Russian Nuclear Capability Today
Although the Cold War is over, and now the most prevalent threats to national security are conventional and asymmetric in nature, nuclear weapons will...
Taking a Stand: Foreign Militaries in the Caspian
It has been almost one year since the IV Caspian Summit in Astrakhan, Russia, where the presidents of the five Caspian states signed a...
Radioactive: Illicit Materials-trafficking across the Greater Caspian
The global impact of transnational crime has risen to unprecedented levels. Criminal groups have appropriated new technologies, adapted horizontal network structures that are difficult...
Social Media Terrorism: DAESH’s New Caucasian Province
The militant group Islamic State (DAESH) has filled power vacuums from Syria to Iraq. As its advances struggle forward due to increasing external resistance,...
A Perfect Cyber Storm: Russia and China Teaming Together
United States intelligence agencies have listed cyber-attacks as the top threat to American national security, ahead of terrorism. These threats are increasing in sophistication,...
THE FSB and SIGINT: Absolute Power at Home and Abroad
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) should easily be considered one of the most influential and powerful intelligence organizations in the world today. Its...
China and Russia: Cyber Cousins but not Cyber Brothers
There seems to be a strong divergence in perception behind China's desire to command cyberspace offensively. On the one hand, there is the assumption...