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Mullah Abdul Satar, former Taliban commander, recently spoke to U.S. Army Lt. Col. Anthony Ulrich, commander of the PRT Civil Affairs group , about his decision to join the Afghanistan Peace and Reintegration Programme. Read more

As a decade of operations begin to wind down in Afghanistan, it is clear that the military’s insatiable demand for timely, secure and high quality information will continue to grow exponentially. Some estimates forecast a near 1000% rise in information generation before 2020. One thing is clear: More than bullets or bombs, information will remain militaries’ greatest force multiplier. Read more

Leonie Industries publically reasserts its stance as Information Operations community attacks mainstream press. Read more

Last month India successfully launched a long-range intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) with a range of 5,000km (3,100 miles). This is significant for at least two pressing reasons: the Agni-V missile is capable of carrying nuclear warheads, and its long range brings it within striking distance of China. Read more

The growth of social and new media in the last decade has produced widespread change as new social practices, political strategies, and ways of doing business have quickly emerged to become accepted and integrated features of our everyday lives Read more

At the International Centre for Defence Studies (ICDS) in Estonia this week, UK Minister for Cyber Security Francis Maude discussed the “immense possibilities, and the huge challenges presented by the cyber revolution”. Read more

As modern warfare relies more and more on information, so communications are maintaining and further reinforcing their role as a vital military component. Satellite communications no longer exist simply to keep disparate elements of forces in contact with one another: they are also essential to make sure everyone involved in a particular theatre has the information they need to complete their missions. Read more

As technologies develop throughout the 21st Century, our cultural, social and economic landscape will be transformed into an intelligent, interconnected hub. Security will move deeper into the cyber domain as machine-to-machine (M2M) communication becomes the norm; We will see the rise of the smart city. Read more

Since the Arab Spring commenced lively debate has ensued about the part played by social media in igniting the first flash of revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and beyond. Contending theories suggest either that the effect was overstated or that new media and social networking sites were among the critical fulminates. The truth perhaps lies somewhere in between, and this article merely attempts to provide further perspective. Read more

"Big" Phil Campion is former SAS soldier now working as a mercenary on The Circuit, the world's private security and protection sector. He's been shot at in Gaza, kidnapped in Kabul, and fought pirates off the seas of Somalia. He joined Defence IQ this week for a short Q&A on his time in the field. Read more

Indicating the rapid rise of cyber attacks and the pervading need for progressive information security capabilities, defence firm EADS Cassidian has today announced the creation of a new dedicated business, Cassidian CyberSecurity, entirely devoted to addressing the fast-growing cyber security market across Europe and Middle East. Read more