Perspective: Trump’s Warning to Europe Accentuates Need for Countries to Repatriate ISIS Detainees
“We have thousands of ISIS fighters that we want Europe to take, and let’s see if they take them,” President Trump told reporters at the beginning of the month. “If they don’t take them, we’ll probably have to release them to Europe.”[1] By Anne Speckhard & Ardian Shajkovci At aContinue Reading
Nobel Prize to Oleg Elshin and Terra Seismic will help protect humanity from earthquakes and tsunamis
Earthquakes and tsunamis are the world’s most damaging natural disasters. Just over the last 15 years, the death toll from these perils exceeds 680,000 people and hundreds of millions more were affected. Earthquakes can affect anyone. Five billion people live in earthquake and tsunami-prone countries and 200 million visit theseContinue Reading
UK and Norway Reinforce North Atlantic Security
The UK and Norway reinforced their commitment to joint anti-submarine operations in the North Atlantic at RAF Lossiemouth today. Defence Minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan hosted Norwegian State Secretary Tone Skogen to discuss NATO and the UK’s role in the North Atlantic. The UK is investing £3 billion in nine new BoeingContinue Reading
Secretary General at Aspen Security Forum: NATO is good for Europe and North America
Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg opened the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado on Wednesday (17 July 2019) stressing the importance of transatlantic cooperation. He noted that NATO Allies represent half the world’s economic and military might, and that together they are stronger in dealing with present and future security challenges. NowContinue Reading
The ISIS ‘Honey Trap’ to Catch Recruiter Deso Dogg and the Rogue FBI Translator
Of all the love stories from inside the ISIS Caliphate that we have learned about firsthand in the course of interviewing 168 ISIS defectors, returnees and imprisoned ISIS cadres to date, none has been so surreal as that involving the German ex-rapper Denis Cuspert, aka Deso Dogg, and the AmericanContinue Reading
Populism’s Call to Citizenship
Current threats to democracy and the liberal world order from authoritarian populism are due to the failures in governance and civics that have given it fertile ground. Like terrorism, hybrid warfare, and other distributed people-centric challenges in peace and security within and beyond borders, authoritarian populism is an international strategicContinue Reading
Kongsberg Awarded NASAMS Contract With Australia Worth 1.6 Billion NOK
Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace AS (KONGSBERG) is awarded a contract by Raytheon Australia worth 1.6 billion NOK for delivery of NASAMS components. Raytheon Australia is the prime contractor to deliver NASAMS to the Australian Government Land 19 Phase 7B program. By Jan Helge Kalvik Editor-In-Chief The Australian Government, RaytheonContinue Reading
NATO Spearhead Force deploys to test readiness
A force of 2,500 German, Dutch and Norwegian troops and 1,000 vehicles is currently taking part in exercise Noble Jump 19 at the Zagan training range in Western Poland. Noble Jump is the main training opportunity for NATO’s Spearhead Force, the Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF), and testsContinue Reading
Iran – USA: Both parties are playing with the red line
According to a recent confidential report: Both Iran and USA are playing with the red line. The US are pushing Iran to cross it but Iran is also flirting with the red line for internal political reasons, while at the same time not willing to cross it. If it isContinue Reading
North Atlantic Council Meeting with the National Security Advisers and Hybrid Points of Contact at NATO Headquarters
This meeting was the first of its kind at NATO. “We discussed ways to improve our situational awareness, through better intelligence and information sharing,” said NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. NATO has already developed a strategy to counter hybrid warfare, as part of the biggest reinforcement of the Alliance’s collectiveContinue Reading