terrorism
Dark Side of Delivery: The Growing Threat of Bioweapon Dissemination by Drones
January 24 by Joseph DeFrancoThe proliferation of drones could make bioweapon delivery dissemination easier and faster. Cases in China have already demonstrated the threat of drone-based agro-terrorism, and this warrants prudent...
Military trends and predictions: 2020
January 18 by Doug LivermoreFrom great power competition to quantum computing, here are key trends that will shape US defence strategy
Dallas: The fifth generation force multiplier and how violence found a niche in social movements
July 11 by Candyce Kelshall and Nazli Melis BulutThe Dallas police attacks have shaken not only police forces around the world but also our understanding of what dramatic change is possible in the space of a single day. With one action, which not on...
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...
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...
On the Throes of Transition, Part IV: Confronting the Vortex of Violence
June 05 by Serena Joseph-HarrisEarlier discussions on violent extremist movements such as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) give credence to the reasons why religion, nationality, organisation or even ethnicity, as...
On the Throes of Transition: Terrorism - Analysis, Assessment, Action
May 06 by Serena Joseph-HarrisPolitical language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidarity to pure wind. George Orwell Policy-making and theory application are by no...
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...
On the Throes of Transition Part III: Countering the Stereotype of a Tropical Paradise
April 20 by Serena Joseph-HarrisThis third installment of the ongoing bi-regional discourse themed "On the Throes of Transition - Terrorism: Assessment, Analysis, Action" is appropriately called "Countering the Stereotype of a Tro...
On the Throes of Transition: Terrorism – Analysis, Assessment and Action
March 09 by Defence IQ DigitalThis forum, themed "On the Throes of Transition," will consist of a series of Occasional Papers on the topic of terrorism and promises to serve as a medium of exchange among defense planners, policy...
Throwing stones at drones: The international system and terrrorism
February 10 by Candyce KelshallWe stand on a hill with a pocket full of stones. We watch the drone flying in from a distance crossing the borders of adjoining states. We watch as it drops a bomb which changes our lives and our huma...
Defence IQ Library: "A High Price: The Triumphs & Failures Of Israeli Counterterrorism" by D Byman
August 17 by Neil WaghornIsraeli Counterterrorism is renowned and feared around the world. Israel’s intelligence service, The Mossad, has a reputation built upon operations such as Wrath of God – a series of blood...