Global Issues & Threats [Archive]

Science projects (0 replies)
Extremism Risk Assessment: A Directory (0 replies)
Small Wars at sea: Global piracy 2019 onwards (0 replies)
Tony Blair Institute for Global Change: Extremism in 2019 - New Approaches (0 replies)
We live in an era of implausible deniability and ambiguous warfare (21 replies)
Japan's huge Rare Earth deposits (3 replies)
Clinging to myths (0 replies)
After oil & gas there's renewable sources (0 replies)
Flashpoints: small, strategic patches of land (1 replies)
Comic explainer: what is lone-actor terrorism? (0 replies)
How has terror changed in 50 years? (0 replies)
Ring of Fire (1 replies)
Forgotten Conflicts today (1 replies)
The End of the Asian Century? East-West Relations in the Age of Trump (1 replies)
Responding to ISIS & Terrorism under President Trump (90 replies)
The new 'Hunt for Red October' by an ex-Deputy SACEUR (0 replies)
Our hearts are leading us astray on the refugee crisis (0 replies)
A message from a colleague (0 replies)
Global briefing: two to watch, two to read (1 replies)
When nonviolent action is the last resort (0 replies)
The Texas Attack: An Expression of Daesh’s Reach? (0 replies)
Nuked from Orbit - the only way to be sure. (2 replies)
Two-barrels from Clint Watts (1 replies)
Russia, jihadis or cyberwarfare – which is the most urgent, new threat? (7 replies)
China's Emergence as a Superpower (2015 onwards) (147 replies)
Global incident maps tell you how screwed the world is in real time (0 replies)
Mental images of One God (0 replies)
What should Washington's relationship with the developing World be? (39 replies)
Nineteen years after; is this a "moderate" Muslim? (16 replies)
Russian Unconventional Strategy (54 replies)
The Jihadist future: a Game of Thrones? (1 replies)
Communism today (1 replies)
"Occupation by Policy" - How Victors Inadvertantly Provoke Resistance Insurgency (221 replies)
Science and theology (0 replies)
Watching Russian Air & Sea Activity (285 replies)
The rise of AQAP dissected (7 replies)
A Strategic Question and Three Insights (13 replies)
Strategic Islands (14 replies)
Demography: A Sea Change in the Muslim World (2 replies)
It's A Salafi - Jihadist Insurgency, Stupid (6 replies)
The Shia-Sunni conflict (1 replies)
Alternative Worlds (9 replies)
Building stability overseas: some lessons (0 replies)
Umar Patek 'Demolition Man' (1 replies)
A good fortune for one man, means less for some (30 replies)
Climate Change, Migration, and Conflict (4 replies)
SWJ Small Wars Survey 2012 (89 replies)
Why Black Market Entrepreneurs Matter to the World Economy (0 replies)
Is the US running an empire? (62 replies)
US Internal Security Redux (21 replies)
How do we perceive the threat of terrorism? (0 replies)
The Era of Living Dangerously (135 replies)
World peace could be closer than you think. (0 replies)
Politicians ''don't have a clue'' about with the war on terror (7 replies)
The Great Compromise (4 replies)
After the Bin Laden op, what is the impact? Not on terrorism. Merged thread (69 replies)
Bin Laden: after Abbottabad (merged thread) (149 replies)
Lone Wolves: outside the USA (33 replies)
USIP funding cut? (1 replies)
Threat or Opportunity: non-violent protest? (38 replies)
Organized Crime and Insurgency (16 replies)
Kroll Global Fraud Report (0 replies)
Global Governance 2025: At A Critical Juncture (0 replies)
Specially Protected Persons in Combat Situations (new title) (119 replies)
The changing nature of global influence (0 replies)
Water Scarcity: merged thread (17 replies)
Identifying fear (22 replies)
John Negroponte interview (20 replies)
The first step toward preventing a nuclear 9/11 is believing it could happen (0 replies)
Counterterrorism Calendar for 2010 (0 replies)
After the War on Terror: RUSI report (1 replies)
Illicit Political Finance and State Capture (10 replies)
Challenging our perception of the developing world. (3 replies)
Should we destroy Al Qaeda? (22 replies)
Spontaneous Jihad Syndrome (7 replies)
Kith & Kin: a recurrent issue (30 replies)
Rethinking Which Terror Groups to Fear (21 replies)
The Next Generation- Burn after Reading (2 replies)
Deterrence of Irregular Threats (310 replies)
Future hotspots of Islamic Extremism (8 replies)
Energy Security (650 replies)
Back to the Future... (0 replies)
New RAND Report on Imported Oil and National Security (5 replies)
A 'Chinese approach' to the War on Terror: a historical analysis (30 replies)
Frank Hoffman on the US Navy (5 replies)
Civil Affairs (3 replies)
Counter Terrorism (merged thread) (55 replies)
Home Grown Jihad? (9 replies)
Free e-book, Terror Terror Terror (7 replies)
State Capitalism as Economic Warfare (2 replies)
Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World (0 replies)
What Is Up With Japan And China (4 replies)
Good Layman's guide to the financial crisis (479 replies)
Public Health: Disease, Epidemic & Pandemic Threat (merged thread) (54 replies)
Arctic / Polar matters (merged thread) (40 replies)
The Erosion of Noncombatant Immunity within Al Qaeda (0 replies)
Defining Success in Counterinsurgency (30 replies)
Ghost: Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent (0 replies)
Ethnic Conflicts Atlas (0 replies)
The case for ethnic cleansing (13 replies)
Peacebuilding Portal (2 replies)
"The Global Counter Insurgency" Some Thoughts (5 replies)
Smart Power Speaker Series with Henry Crumpton (3 replies)
Nexus of Proliferation, Narcotics, and Espionage (8 replies)
Insurgency Articles in the New Parameters (19 replies)
Irregular Challenges and the Emerging Defense Debate (38 replies)
Manging the Barbarians (30 replies)
UN Arms Embargoes (3 replies)
The U.S. embraces open-source warfare? (10 replies)
The UNSC Counterterrorism Program (0 replies)
High Value Target HVT / Political Assassination (79 replies)
An Asymmetric War of Ideas (25 replies)
Prescience (9 replies)
War Crimes and the White House (2 replies)
The American Approach to Counterinsurgency (40 replies)
Fighting for Faith (0 replies)
I'm Desperately Trying to Find a Way... (3 replies)
A Flawed Strategy for the "War on Terror" (42 replies)
My Grand Strategy (32 replies)
The Banality of Evil (35 replies)
The Return of Authoritarian Great Powers (4 replies)
New Paradigms for 21st Century Conflict (51 replies)
A view from Australia about militant Islam (0 replies)
Is Europe Waking Up? (13 replies)
Ralph Peters on Dreams & Islam (3 replies)
Allies Cited for Human Trafficking (2 replies)
Weather as a (potential) Weapon (1 replies)
Broad Brush - Foreign Affairs article (2 replies)
The Army We Need (1 replies)
Future Peer Competitor? (48 replies)
SWC Poll: What Motivates Islamist Terrorism against the West? (25 replies)
2007 National Security Strategy Essay Contest (6 replies)
Rotting Empire vs. Inept Enemy (9 replies)
Future small wars (7 replies)
Make No Mistake: This Is War (6 replies)
A civil war in Islam? (41 replies)
Using drones: principles, tactics and results (amended title) (359 replies)
Hydras, Networks and Diseases (4 replies)
Transnational Organized Crime (Catch All) (29 replies)
On a global scale, what is the size of Al Qa’ida and/or other Terrorist Groups? (9 replies)
A Day in the Life of an Estonian EOD Specialist (0 replies)
How We Lose (7 replies)
Sanctuary or Ungoverned Spaces:identification, symptoms and responses (323 replies)
Modern-day Goths and Vandals Threaten the West (1 replies)
When Conflicting Civilizations Collide (9 replies)
Wars Less About Ideas Than Extreme Tribalism (3 replies)
China's Emergence as a Superpower (till 2014) (806 replies)
UN peacekeeping operations (catch all) (64 replies)
Islam, Islamism, Conflict & Terrorism (a collection) (35 replies)
The next small war is the unfinished one (0 replies)
Assessing Al-Qaeda (merged thread) (286 replies)
Bin Laden: before Abbottabad (merged thread) (71 replies)
Nuclear/Radioactive Material Smuggling (15 replies)
Small Wars at Sea: 21st century piracy (38 replies)
Human Security Report 2005 (4 replies)