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 | COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM 2014
Major trends in global terrorism in 2014 included the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant’s (ISIL’s) unprecedented seizure of territory in Iraq and Syria, the continued flow of foreign terrorist fighters worldwide to ...Read more > | 388 Pages 2.52 MB |
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 | AIRPOWER AND NATIONAL SECURITY By William M. Arkin
Airpower is and long has been the sharpest of America’s swords, as
well as a highly versatile set of tools for the support of national strategy—
both grand and of course ...Read more > | 367 Pages 4.01 MB |
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 | CLIMATE EXTREMES: RECENT TRENDS WITH IMPLICATIONS FOR NATIONAL SECURITY
Climate change has entered the mainstream as a potential threat to U.S. national security. The 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review, and the 2010 National Security Strategy all identify climate change as likely to trigger outcomes that will threaten U.S. security. These assessments have had to rely on projections of climate change tuned to identify impacts over roughly a one-century time ...Read more > | 138 Pages 7.80 MB |
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 | LESSONS FROM RANDS WORK ON PLANNING UNDER UNCERTAINTY FOR NATIONAL SECURITY
RANDs progress in dealing with uncertainty analysis for national security has benefited from a confluence of developments in four domains, as indicated in Figure S.1. Most familiar perhaps is technology: modern computers and software allow analysis that would have been inconceivable in the early days of systems and policy analysis, such as examining a vast possibility space when considering options for the way ...Read more > | 55 Pages 385.98 KB |
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 | THE IMPACT OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE ON INFORMATION SHARING
A key factor in the failure of the intelligence community is the resistance to information sharing. Organizational culture is an essential link in understanding the resistance to information sharing. Using Edgar Scheins organizational culture model, this paper analyzes the organizational culture of the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation with an eye toward how those cultures impact information ...Read more > | 51 Pages 811.08 KB |
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 | INTERNAL SECURITY IN INDIA By OM PRAKASH YADAV
The paper intends to examine the internal
security threats owing to caste/class rivalries, terrorist and
insurgent outfits in different regions of India. It also marks the
intra-regional variations in nature, preferences, causes and
intensities of these problems. It further examines the
contemporary politics, political malpractices and administrative
in-efficiency of the state ...Read more > | 58 Pages 491.72 KB |
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 | HOMELAND SECURITY : INDIAS INTERNAL SECURITY REFORMS
India’s internal security remains a major area of concern. In the years following our independence, the Indian government focussed its energies mainly on the maintenance of law and order, communal peace and harmony, crime control and counter-insurgency, which was mainly confined to the northeast in the early years.However, in the past five decades or so, the ongoing insurgency in the northeast, the extinguished insurgency in Punjab, the dissidence and proxy war in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) the ...Read more > | 264 Pages 1.21 MB |
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 | ARMED AND DANGEROUS
Understanding the characteristics and capabilities of armed
UAVs will be critical to making future policy choices. The
complexity and expense of long-range armed UAVs are quite
different from short-range systems, which make them difficult
to develop and even to ...Read more > | 34 Pages 1.11 MB |
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 | MARITIME SECURITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA By Robert M. Shelala II
The waterways of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA region) are among the most important in the world. They facilitate the export of large volumes of oil and natural gas from the region, while also bridging traders in the Eastern and Western worlds through the Red Sea and Suez ...Read more > | 80 Pages 874.00 KB |
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