Someone mentioned this list to me at the conference. It includes political, economic, ecological, educational targets, tourist and military targets - and a...
Charlie Edwards
Charlie Edwards is Director of National Security and Resilience Studies at the Royal United Services Institute. Prior to RUSI he was a Research Leader at the RAND Corporation focusing on Defence and Security where he conducted research and analysis on a broad range of subject areas including: the evaluation and implementation of counter-violent extremism programmes in Europe and Africa, UK cyber strategy, European emergency management, and the role of the internet in the process of radicalisation. He has undertaken fieldwork in Iraq, Somalia, and the wider Horn of Africa region.
Terror focus ‘hits security work’
Margaret Beckett has become the new chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee, succeeding Paul Murphy who got moved in last week's reshuffle....
Veiligheid
The morning sessions were quite good, but the problem the old school (sitting behind and to the left of me) had was that most of the presentations were just...
Commercial secrets
I'm not allowed to blog about the session I am currently in for reasons of commercial confidentiality (which raises a point about how we share information on...
Blogging live…
I'm at a conference in The Hague on National Safety and Security. The conference has just been opened by Guusje ter Horst, the Minister of the Interior &...
Karzai’s divide and rule strategy
Last week saw Dan Korski’s excellent new paper on Afghanistan – and, following the announcement of Paddy Ashdown's nomination to be the UN's Envoy to the...
Sshh! European Defence is back on the agenda
In the heady days of the late 1990s, European defence was the subject of choice for journalists, academics and think tanks. Then in 2002 it all went phut. No...
A soundbite of tortured syntax and logic
Benedict Brogan on Jacqui Smith's experience on the Today Programme this morning (listen): Carolyn Quinn can't have been the only person who burst out...
Who will watch the spooks?
Paul Murphy is to take over as Welsh Secretary from Peter Hain, who quit today after his deputy leadership campaign donations were referred to the police. Mr...
Quantum of Solace
The next James Bond film is to be called Quantum of Solace. The name is taken from one of a collection of short stories published by 007 creator Ian Fleming...
Crystal Balls
Staying with the futures theme - I've just come across a great looking project at CSIS called 7 Revolutions. The project's aim is to promote strategic...
Can you see a black swan? OA can.
Alex has blogged before about black swans and the human assumption that the unexpected can be predicted by extrapolating from variations in statistics based...
Home Office Minister: Britain faces ‘two or three 9/11s’
Tomorrow the British Government will publish its Counter-Terrorism Bill. Ministers are already trying to persuade MPs that a key component of the Bill - the...
Mummy’s boy
The Huffington Post features some of the 900 plus questions put to Al Qaeda deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in an online interview. They range from the...
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