The shock and awe campaign being waged by ISIS is one we did not predict when we orchestrated our own variety of shock and awe over Bagdad. And while debate about the effectiveness of airstrikes against ISIS continues, those of us focused on the narrative battle are pretty muchContinue Reading
A huge internal fight inside ISIS occurred today in Raqqa in which two hundred members tried to defect and switch alliance to Jabhat al-Nusra. The uprising occurred in response to when ISIS executed Tunisian ISIS commander Abu Ubeyd al-Tunisi along with eight other Tunisian mujahideen for allegedly trying to defect. Continue Reading
Shoot the Women First is the title of a 1991 book by Eileen MacDonald based on her interviews of female terrorists and originated in advice purportedly given to Germany’s GSG 9 anti-terrorist sharpshooters. MacDonald exploded the myth that female terrorists of that time period were simply pawns of their maleContinue Reading
Kongsberg Digital is to be established as a new subsidiary of KONGSBERG. The company will be headed by Hege Skryseth and will become a leading industrial software environment with about 450 employees. – We’re at the starting point of significant changes due to the digitalization of industrial processes. Technologies suchContinue Reading
When one looks at the current state of international affairs, the modern world reminds of second half of 19th century that basically laid ground for both World Wars.The international political configuration was multi-polar. During that period of history, The Russian Empire campaign in the Balkans created great deal of instability betweenContinue Reading
PST expects that the threats to Norway and Norwegian interests in 2016 will continue to form a complex and varied picture. Assessing future threats will involve reviewing large quantities of unverified information from many different sources. By Siv Alsen, PST Events in other countries will also have direct and indirectContinue Reading
Allison McDowell-Smith, Ph.D. is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice Management at Nichols College in Dudley, MA and Research Fellow at the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE). Allison McDowell-Smith earned her Ph.D. in Business Administration with a concentration in homeland security leadership and policy. Continue Reading
Mr. Putin has several geo-political goals for Russia. Among the weakening of US position as a single superpower and growing the territorial ambitions of the new Imperial-National-Socialist Russia over first-CIS countries and second-using her energy power to divide and neutralize Europe by splitting it from the USA or create FinlandizationContinue Reading
We are proud to welcome Ahmet S. Yayla, Ph.D. to the editorial team of Defence and Intelligence. Dr. Yayla is currently working as a tenured Professor and the Chair of the Sociology Department at the University of Harran, Faculty of Arts and Sciences in Sanliurfa, Turkey and presently on academic leaveContinue Reading
In February of 2015 Iraqi Ambassador, Mohamed Alhakim requested the UN Security Council to investigate the deaths of twelve doctors in Mosul, Iraq who he claimed had been killed by ISIS after refusing to remove organs from dead bodies. He also claimed that some of the bodies found were mutilatedContinue Reading