Новости за 15.11.2020

Quantify your guestimates: Estimating hidden numbers in intelligence practice Dave Maxwell Sun, 11/15/2020 - 12:05pm

This article will discuss the concept of hidden numbers and the different approaches to handling the concept; further, it will relate hidden numbers to the intelligence profession and thus identify methods to estimate hidden populations. Intelligence in this connection is used as a broad term covering both intelligence in the police and law enforcement and intelligence... Читать дальше...

Civil Affairs Association Publication: Carving our Niche: A Modular Concept for Future Civil Affairs

https://www.civilaffairsassoc.org/post/carving-our-niche-a-modular-concept-for-future-special-operations-forces-civil-affairs

11/15/2020 News & Commentary - National Security

News and Commentary by Dave Maxwell. Edited and Published by Riley Murray.

11/15/2020 News & Commentary - Korea

News and Commentary by Dave Maxwell. Edited and Published by Riley Murray.

Long-Term Behavioral Change in a Knife Fight: The Future of Psychological Operations Dave Maxwell Sun, 11/15/2020 - 8:04am

This short OpEd provides a shot over the bow for the Psychological Operations and Special Operations communities and has some big ideas for reorganizing PSYOP forces and revising missions that challenges the status quo stimulate some debate.

Gnosticplayers: A Tale of Hacking Mobile Apps and Profit Dave Maxwell Sat, 11/14/2020 - 6:31pm

This paper takes a look into the 2019 hacking of Zynga, a mobile video game developer. In the summer of 2019, mobile game developer Zynga had the login information of over 170 million accounts stolen. The accounts were uploaded to an illegal market place on the Deep Web and sold for an illicit profit. The hack is a form of cyber-trespassing and theft, as the hacker trespassed illegally into... Читать дальше...

Iraq’s Ethno-Sectarian Landscape: Sunni Arab Collaboration with the Dominant Shi’a Militia Apparatus Dave Maxwell Sat, 11/14/2020 - 6:22pm

Since the start of the war against the Islamic State (IS) in 2014, Iraq’s Sunni Arab powerbrokers have aligned with the dominant Shi’a parties and their associated militias in partnerships based on local security and economic ties. The Sunni Arab elite have enjoyed political, economic, and military privileges from serving as the junior partners to the Shi’a militias ... Читать дальше...