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Originally posted on Dart-Throwing Chimp:
The United Nation’s refugee agency today released its annual report on people displaced by war around the world, and the news is bad: The number of people forcibly displaced at the end of 2014 had risen to a staggering 59.5 million compared to 51.2 million a year earlier and 37.5 million a…
August 23, 2014
Hezbollah: Its Use of Synergistic Influence Operations and Potential Vulnerabilities.
July 7, 2014
Originally posted on In Moscow's Shadows:
But what happens when the bear looks like a stray dog, or a cute little kitten? Call it non-linear war (which I prefer), or hybrid war, or special war, Russia’s operations first in Crimea and then eastern Ukraine have demonstrated that Moscow is increasingly focusing on new forms…
December 28, 2013
Originally posted on Dart-Throwing Chimp:
The year that’s about to end has distinguished itself in at least one way we’d prefer never to see again. By my reckoning, 2013 saw more new mass killings than any year since the early 1990s. When I say “mass killing,” I mean any episode in which the deliberate actions of…
November 22, 2013
As Iran and world powers struggle on nuclear deal in Geneva, I conducted a thought experiment to consider revisiting Schelling’s calculus of deterrence in his seminal treatise Arms and Influence. Does this calculus remain relevant or is it obsolete in the face of a nuclear armed Iran? It is, I concluded, variables in the strategic […]
July 10, 2013
It has been a busy summer and I haven’t posted here in quite some time now. With full-time work on the Joint Staff, teaching courses in global terrorism, counter-terrorism, and homeland security, writing for the Institute for Advance Studies and embarking on anther round of graduate studies at George Mason University’s School of Conflict Analysis and Resolution, […]
April 21, 2013
October 30, 2012
I am looking forward to presenting “The Case for a Grand Strategy of Network Centrality” at the Inter University Seminar on Armed Forces and Society in Kingston, CA this weekend. The paper asks how should the United States employ its defense, development, and diplomatic tools to look beyond war to the subsequent peace? Anne-Marie Slaughter offered […]
October 2, 2012
For those of you who actually look forward to my posts here at Pathfinder, my sincere apologies for my absence. In addition to my full time employment and teaching a full load as an adjunct this semester I’ve been busy with a few additional projects. First, the interdependence/stability project I’ve written about here was accepted […]
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June 23, 2015
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