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A Brief History of Daesh Media Propaganda
March 09 by Richard de SilvaDaesh media propaganda has been, to quote FBI Director James Comey, "unusually slick", seeing operation in over 20 languages, seizing on digital engagement lessons from commercial and government lesso...
Intelligence agencies are still obsessed with state-based threats, unaware the game has changed
December 07 by Defence IQ DigitalIs it possible that ISIL is using the whole world as their ‘edge’? Has western civilisation been experiencing sustained attacks utilising net centric warfare concepts without our even bei...
Transnational threats and violent social movements in the Caribbean
November 27 by Candyce KelshallThis article first appeared in BUCSIS. ISIL has recruits from over 100 countries. Large numbers from Belgium and France but proportionately it also has a significant number from the Caribbean &nda...
Does the hybrid terrorism seen in Paris herald the dawn of a new phase of warfare?
November 23 by Candyce KelshallThe existing structure of law enforcement and prevailing views of terrorism are officially antiquated. Decentralisation, destabilisation and insurgent methodology using mixed techniques in multiple si...
The story of ISIS against the west: Nodes, Net centric warfare and dinosaur hunters
November 18 by Candyce KelshallConsider a group of cavemen leaving the cave to go hunting a dinosaur. The dinosaur is bigger, stronger and faster. Death is certain for the cavemen and yet with spears and rocks the dinosaur is fel...
Closing the border to refugees does not guarantee security in Europe
November 18 by Candyce Kelshall and Victoria DittmarIn the aftermath of the November 13 attacks in Paris, one is left to wonder if these incidents, happening as they did in the midst of the worst humanitarian crisis of the century, were by accident o...
Saudi Arabia could be the key to America's 'Russia in Syria' problem
October 07 by James P. Farwell and George BeebeU.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir in May 2015. Source: CTV News This article first appeared in The National Interest. Russia’s decision to p...
The Key to Destroying ISIL is Information Warfare
April 23 by James P. FarwellThree crucial messages should guide America's fight against ISIS, reports James Farwell As battles wage in the Middle East, are governments investing as much in information as they are in kinetic...
Terrorist groups are not terrorists. They’re violent transnational movements bent on creating a new world order
April 20 by Candyce KelshallThe creation of a new world system – not just a change in the current system – is arguably the raison d'ëtre behind the rise in transnational terrorist threats. The fact that groups like...
Hitting ISIL where it hurts
April 20 by Candyce KelshallThe functional and institutional nature of hybrid terrorist groups reveals one of the key ways in which we can understand the changing dynamic of current state threats. The closest analogy that may...
ISIL: The ultimate hybrid enemy
February 04 by Candyce KelshallISIL has grabbed the world’s attention with new levels of barbarism revealed in the scripted murder of the man known throughout the world as "the pilot". Jordanian Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh has b...
IS OSINT Digest, November 2014
November 24 by Defence IQ DigitalThis report is a collation of all key OSINT sources exploring IS/ISIS/ISIL activity. Covering 13-19 November, this Allen Vanguard report includes analysis of the following events: Islamic State...