Новости за 04.05.2018

International Affairs is the Chatham House journal and they have made available for free this article 'Grey is the new black: covert action and implausible deniability' by Professor Richard Aldrich and Dr Rory Cormac, both British academic intelligence historians. On a very quick read the focus...

Browsing YouTube I found a number of old documentaries, mainly from the South African viewpoint and notifications of new South African films, like Recce, alas only a trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpUQn7ZZwrs Here is one by Al Venter, a South African writer from...

A good article on the problems with this new technology, although I recall several reports of deployment over ten years ago. Perhaps it is only now being released to "ordinary" police work? A 90% failure rate at one event and in London at least one false arrest. Read on. ...

“Peace in Pieces” in Afghanistan SWJED Fri, 05/04/2018 - 5:02am

We must temper our optimism. The public in the United States has read comparatively little of the new strategy compared to what it reads about terrorist bombings in Afghan cities. We must be careful of optimistic statements that portend this year is the one where there will be, in effect, “a light at the end of the tunnel,” when at the same time so many terrorist strikes in Afghan cities could have the effect on the U.S.... Читать дальше...

Developing a Big Data Strategy: “Where We Are” and “Where We Need to Go” SWJED Fri, 05/04/2018 - 4:45am

As an intelligence organization, we must consider data management processes including “acquiring, validating, storing, protecting, and processing required data to ensure the accessibility, reliability, and timeliness of the data for its users” and organizational stakeholders. More importantly, we need a long-term strategy that organizes, makes sense of, and applies analytics to raw data for real-time... Читать дальше...

Attachment 5572 (http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=5572) For a school project, we realized it is hard to find a simple chart that shows the chain of command in the military! Here, we designed an easy-to-follow infograph that allows you to see the rankings in the...

---Quote--- DENVER, Colorado — Last winter, on the outskirts of a large U.S. city, an FBI hostage rescue team set up an elevated observation post to assess an unfolding situation. Soon they heard the buzz of small drones — and then the tiny aircraft were all around them, swooping past in a series...

U.S. Army Special Forces Secretly Help Saudis Combat Threat From Yemen Rebels

U.S. Army Special Forces Secretly Help Saudis Combat Threat From Yemen Rebels by Helene Cooper, Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Eric Schmitt – New York Times

*From Youri Cormier at The Strategy Bridge*: https://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2018/5/1/freedom-the-god-of-modern-war *Introduction*: ---Quote--- Freedom. The term is so ubiquitous in its application to war we tend not to ask why that is. We take it as a given. Operation Enduring...

Laser From Chinese Base Aimed at U.S. Military Pilots In Africa’s Skies, Pentagon Charges

Laser From Chinese Base Aimed at U.S. Military Pilots In Africa’s Skies, Pentagon Charges by Gordon Lubold and Jeremy Page – Wall Street Journal

A week old, short French TV documentary (21 mins) on a three month tour to Mali by a French Foreign Legion detachment, as part of Operation Barkhane; the reporter was with them for six days and not a shot was fired. Link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK8T3IxQo4M