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Strengthening Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security (NDS): Is it equipped to counter ‘emerging’ threats?
Intelligence agencies in Afghanistan are outstandingly failing to collect information of high value beneficial for Afghan’s domestic security. Deploying under-trained and inexperienced intelligence officers...
A New Era at the State Department?
With the election of Donald Trump as president, a new era may be emerging at the State Department. Or not.
Ever since the partition of...
World Energy Outlook: A sea change in the global oil trade
The new World Energy Outlook is the story of a series of upheavals in global energy, in particular the dramatic changes in the Unites...
The War for Raw Materials
The war for raw materials amounts to a reshuffling of the power relations among Western nations, on one hand, and the emerging and/or developing...
Artificial intelligence and intelligence
As was also clearly stated by Vladimir Putin on September 4, 2017: "whichever country leads the way in Artificial Intelligence research will be the...
Why US not trustworthy ally for Turkey
Just weeks after failure of the ISIL terrorist group in Iraq and Syria, the United States announced that it is going to create a...
What an ‘Impossibility Clause’ can make possible
Since the implementation of the JCPOA in January of 2016, and throughout the current period of accelerating investment by foreign enterprises in Iran, many...
Take a pre-cruise vacation and ‘live like a local’ on Florida’s Space Coast
There's something magical about taking a cruise. Is it the open ocean? The indescribable feeling of warm sea air blowing through your hair? The...
Islamic State after ISIS: Colonies without Metropole or Cyber Activism?
With the world constantly following the events in the Middle East, much now depends on the shape, form and ‘policy’ Islamic State is going...
From Davos to Munich
An overview of the views and attitudes of European officials during the Davos and Munich Conference and their comparison with each other suggests that...