My visit to Australia is impeccably timed. While London is set to bask in temperatures of 21°C this week, it's cold in Sydney and the forecast looks miserable...
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.
The Unbreakable Fighting Umbrella
Bodyguards for Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo surely win the prize for best secret gadget: The unbreakable fighting umbrella. And customers are clearly satisfied: I...
The Great Game
Time for some EU military muscle
I'm in Vienna for a project on European security, drivers, and trends. You can read about Foresec's aims and objectives here. One of the more animated...
Terror over Sydney
Mild embarrassment for Australian Defence officials who have had to apologise to office workers and residents of Sydney for a public stunt that didn't quite...
Anti-Terrorism Patents
Via Bruce Schneier, the top ten strangest anti-terrorism patents. My three favourites. Railroad missile system Aeroplane Trap Door Explosion Containment...
When fiction becomes fact
GD readers may be familiar with The Kingdom, a fictional film inspired by bombings at the Riyadh compound on May 12, 2003 and the Khobar housing complex on...
UK National Security Strategy: 100 days old
(Updated 26 July 2008) By my estimation the UK's national security strategy is 100 days old. So what initiatives from the UK NSS have gained traction? What...
Should we tell them about the risk from flooding? Who’s them? Ah…
Should the Government publish details of reservoir flood plans for local residents and 'persons likely to be interested'? (Which I think is a reference to the...
Strategic myopia: the case of UK defence
This afternoon I'm giving a presentation to the Sandhurst Defence Forum. The subject of my talk: Strategic Myopia develops some of the themes from the report...
Arc of ‘crisis’ or ‘instability’. You choose.
Over on ArmscontrolWonk they have been analysing the arc of crisis map from the recent French White paper on national security and defence. They've done a...
How the Puerto Ricans stumped Saddam
You have to hand it to three US intelligence amigos: Donald Kerr , Tom Fingar and Mike McConnell. They don't just subscribe to the concepts of need to share...
Hazardscape
A fantastically useful map created by RSOE EDIS, a nonprofit emergency services organization based in Budapest: The live map or hazardscape is regularly...
Aircon and the rise in crime in Jamaica
Crime in Jamaica has always been pretty bad. The island of 2.7m people has one of the highest murder rates in the world and the last decade has seen a 10%...
Allez les bleus
While the national football team’s loss to Italy last night heralded the end of an era for French football and possibly Raymond Domenech tenure as coach, a...
Think like a Hurricane
This is the University of Maryland's scale model of New Orleans where they are in the process of recreating Katrina's floodwaters. After the hurricane,...
42 days: it’s the whips that won it
It's not just the DUP who helped secure vote for the Counter-terrorism bill. From Revolts: Of the 49 Labour backbenchers who voted against the Government in...
Web 2.0 (in under 5 minutes)
Definitely worth watching.
The secret of great acting? It’s all about the timing
The tragic deaths of three paratroopers on patrol in Helmand on Sunday brings the number of British military casualties in Afghanistan to 100. A steady stream...
How urban apathy can kill community resilience
By any estimation this is a shocking video. A hit and run case made worse because people walking along the pavement don't rush to the victim, or call 911 but...
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