Today The Guardian (among others) publishes an excerpt from an operational note by the Security Service's Behavioural Science Unit; a small team of scientists...
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.
Are the Olympic games an elaborate trap?
While others are concerned about gold medals or what the Beijing Olympics means for us in 2012 there are real worries that the games are in fact an elaborate...
Disasters via Twitter
A couple of weeks ago a propane factory exploded in Toronto. Within seconds the explosion was being reported via twitter. When Jeremiah Owyang tweeted that...
British Police seize War On Terror board game
A War On Terror board game has been seized by police who claim the balaclava in the set could be used in a criminal act. The board game was confiscated from...
The Hollowmen: Military Matters
What better way to spend 25 minutes of this grey and overcast Monday morning digesting Richard's and Daniel's posts on military matters through the medium of...
Paris Hilton for President
The video is a spoof of John McCain's 'celebrity' advertisement released last week in which the Republican candidate compared Barack Obama's popularity with...
How Prepared Are You if Disaster Strikes?
The Wednesday quiz is back* Tara Parker-Pope, the health guru at the New York Times has created a quiz based on the brilliant book The Unthinkable by Amanda...
Policing terror
Police officials in Providence, Rhode Island, are beginning to express doubts about whether the imperative to protect domestic security from terrorism has...
HealthMap
It's been a while since we last had a map on GD. From Wired: HealthMap … creates machine-readable public health information from the text indexed by Google...
The Conservative Party’s summer reading list
I can’t be the only one scratching my head at the Conservative Party's summer holiday reading list. It's week 2 of silly season, I grant you, and journalists...
Distracted by terrorism
Readers of GD will be familiar with my/ our claims that the focus on international terrorism has often been to the detriment of other risks. So interesting to...
Probably the most important speech by a Defense Secretary?
The new PNSR report reminds me of a recent speech by Robert Gates on the U.S. Global Leadership Campaign. From his speech: To do all these things, to truly...
Food crisis: Mud Cakes only 1.3p each
This is shocking. Mud is fast becoming a staple part of Haiti's poor in one of Port-au-Prince's worst slums. Clay-based food is now a major income earner as...
Rocket Man
Next Tuesday the Martin Jetpack will be unveiled. It will be able to operate for up to 30-minutes and a total engine life of 1,000 hours. It's enough to make...
MoD 2.0: An ‘open mind’ not a ‘safe pair of hands’ is needed
I've just given a talk to 120 + senior officers at the Australian Command and Staff College on national security. My talk was deliberately aimed at the...
National Security Top Trumps
A propos my post below - Brown has said that the NSF core group will be made up of 12 men and women. But who could they be? Join in the fun and send us your...
The UK’s national security forum: Progress update
Tucked away in a Written Ministerial Statement yesterday comes news of progress on the UK's national security forum: Core group: The forum will have a core...
Brownian motion and national security
Readers of GD will be familiar with Brownian motion - the random movement of particles suspended in a liquid or gas or the mathematical model used to describe...
Q&A
The most recent suicide bombing in the US was carried out by: a) a foreign Muslim terrorist b) a native non-Muslim terrorist c) a foreign non- Muslim...
Casus belli?
From the Guardian: An Israeli human rights group released video footage last night showing an Israeli soldier firing a rubber-coated bullet at close range at...
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