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.

Key word for this winter

The key word you need in your vocabulary this Winter: Reboot. As in: 'We need to reboot the global economic system'. 'Cameron attempts to reboot party image...

A sea change in approach

While one part of the US Navy argues for a next generation of frigates, elsewhere a small band of reformers in the USN including US Marines are experimenting...

Iraq 2011

The web-comic Shooting Wars, hit people's screens in May 2006. It followed a young journalist named Jimmy Burns, who found himself video-blogging across the...

Lest we forget

One of thirty-one photos recently published in The Boston Globe: Imam Hashim Raza leads mourners in prayer during a funeral for Mohsin Naqvi at al-Fatima...

Flash

Via Alex Barker @ the FT. Alex is right. This has got way out of hand.

Renegade

The US secret service has assigned Obama the code name 'Renegade'. The Chicago Tribune, Obama's hometown paper, reported that Obama's wife has been named...

Pirates and the future of 4GW

William S Lind suggests that beyond Afghanistan, the Fourth Generation future belongs neither to al Qaeda nor to the Taliban but to two more sophisticated...

The 100 day assessment

The soldier-scholar General Petraeus is launching a major reassessment of U.S. strategy for Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq and the surrounding region, the...

Think global, Act local

Brent Smith, a Professor of sociology and criminal justice at the University of Arkansas has just published an interesting paper (pdf) on terrorist behaviour....

The Laundry Warriors

Smart Intelligence via Bruce Schneier. The following operation was used against the IRA: One of the most interesting operations was the laundry mat [sic]....

‘My fellow prisoners’

McCain: "You and I together will confront the $10 trillion debt the federal government has run up and balance the federal budget by the end of my term in...

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