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The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime is publishing a weekly selection of stories from around the world that examine the relationship between the global health crisis and...
This is what I had to say about STRATFOR on the board almost a decade ago:
They haven't improved with time, but the range of quality information you can access for free has expanded greatly.
JSOU, February 2015: Building Partner Capacity
FIIA, 24 March 2015: The New Alliance and Integration Treaty Between Russia and South Ossetia: When Does Integration Turn into Annexation?
This did not make much of a noise here in the US,...
Looks to be an interesting read. I read Thomas' "Empires of Intelligence: Security Services and Colonial Disorder After 1914" and found it to be very good indeed. I look forward to digging into...
Arthur D. Simons Center for Interagency Cooperation: Economics in Counterinsurgency Operations
Not 'info ops', an entry-level recruiting effort by GCHQ. But the bottom line is that the case study provided on the website is extremely generic and does not compromise anything. Far more detailed...
Strategic Options for the Future of African Peace Operations 2015-2025
This report is an outcome of a seminar co-hosted by the Nordic Africa Institute and the Training for Peace programme in Cape...
The Economist, 17 Jan 15: China in Africa: One among many
The article is merely a restatement of an old truism, updated with current examples. The 'propaganda of the deed' has been an article of faith amongst terrorists since the anarchists of the late...
To do that effectively, you'll need to research the background and delineate the evolution of the problem in northern Nigeria. You should go back at least to the '80s and the Maitatsine, and follow...
Strategic Review, Summer 2000: The End of Innocence: Rethinking Non-Combatancy in the Post-Kosovo Era
That lump of conjecture and speculation is about as valid as the info on the mobile BW labs fed to the US by Chalabi.
Stability Journal, 5 January 2015:
Behavioral Patterns among (Violent) Non-State Actors: A Study of Complementary Governance
I find the concept of ‘complementary governance’ in the context of...
Small Arms Survey, 30 October 2014: Politics by Other Means: Conflicting Interests in Libya’s Security Sector
Published earlier this month by NOREF, Stealing the Revolution: Violence and...
ICG, 8 May 2014: Flight of Icarus? The PYD's Precarious Rise in Syria
18 April 2014, The Diplomat: Chinese Strategists Reflect on the First Sino-Japanese War
On this subject, I also recommend Haider Mullick's Pakistan's Security Paradox: Countering and Fomenting Insurgencies, published by the Joint Special Operations University in 2009.
InSightCrime, 9 April 2014: Terrorism and Crime in the Americas - "It's Business"
InSightCrime, 9 April 2014: Terrorism and Crime in the Americas - "It's Business"
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, March 2014: Divisive Rule - Sectarianism and Power Maintenance in the Arab Spring: Bahrain, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria
Rudaw, 25 March 2014: YPG Calls on all Kurdish Groups to Unite Against Jihadist Threats in Rojava
Don't forget the 1964 Case Studies in Insurgency and Revolutionary Warfare: Vietnam 1941-1954 from the U.S. Army's Special Operations Research Office.
For those that follow the region, this is old news. Dagestan has accounted for more than half of all casualties of violence in the North Caucasus for a few years now, with a spike in the second...
See also the 24 February 2014 USIP report Illicit Trafficking and Libya’s Transition: Profits and Losses. Although it is concerned with Libya as a whole, it does tie in activities in the south with...