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Rise of the female jihadists
According to data collected by New America, based on media reports and court documents, of the 455 individuals who have been publicly identified fr...
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NAF Launches 'Future of War'
*The New America Foundation is launching a new “Future of War” project with Defense One and Arizona State University. The series of writing and eve...
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Was Sony Hit With a Second Hack?
“They don’t have the facts that I have, don’t see what I see,” he said. The FBI director added that he has “very high confidence” in few things, bu...
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China's Sky Wing UAV Gets New Engines
The WZ-9 Sky Wing UAV,built by Guizhouz Aviation Industry Corporation, has been fitted with a pair of stealthy and more powerful engines.
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North Korea’s growing hacker army, stout cyberdefenses hinder U.S response to Sony breach
North Korea is “just not as vulnerable in cyber as we are, so cyberactions we might take to press the buttons of another nation won’t have the same...
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3D printing will change how wars are fought, foriegn policy conducted, experts say.
Being able to take printers to a war zone promises radical shake-up of combat and the defence industry says Peter W. Singer.
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Why U.S. needs to stay in Afghanistan
Keeping a relatively small, predominantly U.S. Special Forces, presence in Afghanistan to continue to train the Afghan army past December 2016 is a...
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The Pentagoner: The Long, Slow Death of Capabilities-based Planning
Enter capabilities based planning. It was not necessarily the wrong approach, but it allowed much room for artificial selection; we wanted to build...
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New America Partners with Defense One for “Future of War” Project
Defense One to host group’s initiative exploring the changing nature of war and conflict
Washington, DC — New America announced today that it is partnering with Defense One, Atlantic Media’s premiere digital national security and defens...
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Cyberwarfare: The new front
As Shane Harris says in his timely new work of contemporary history, "@War," growing inexorably in recent years. The United States and its adversar...
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6th J-20 Stealth Fighter Rolls Out, More to soon follow
*Coming less than three weeks after the fifth prototype, "2013", first flew on November 29, 2014, the rapid production of J-20 stealth fighters sug...
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The Chinese Army Gets a Smart Grenade Launcher for Christmas
What makes the system so appealing is how it combines the rapid fire action of an assault rifle with a programmable, multipurpose 20mm grenade laun...
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Sony hack fallout: What can the U.S. do against North Korea?
And it's not just about cybersecurity. It's about how to punish and deter what's pretty much a pariah state whom the U.S. has struggled to punish a...
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Still waiting on Sony hack attribution – Dark net more dangerous following FBI takedown – Home Depot breach to cost community banks $90M
Cyber watchers are waiting for the big announcement that may — or may not — come today, attributing the Sony hack to the North Korean state. The Ne...
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Sony Hack: Three Lessons Learned for Corporations
Peter Singer, author of “Cybersecurity and Cyberwar,” and senior fellow at New America Foundation, discusses the hacking attack on Sony Pictures re...
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Cyber Expert Peter Singer: Sony's Embarrassment Has Set a 'Horrible' Precedent
"The ability to steal gossipy emails from a not-so-greatly defended computer network is not the same as being able to carry out physical 9/11-style...
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The Morning Download: Sony Attack Is Cybersecurity’s ‘Snowden’ Moment
The digital assault on Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. (much more on that below) has changed the public’s perception of cybersecurity, much as the...
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The Sony Hack Is Not an Excuse to Pass Bad Cybersecurity Laws
As cybersecurity expert Peter Singer noted in our interview yesterday, "the ability to steal gossipy emails from a not-so-great protected computer ...
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Sony pulls movie, amid reports linking North Korea to hack
The film’s cancellation “changes this from a joke, to them incentivizing attacks on other people,” said Peter Singer, a senior fellow at the New Am...
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Reaction to the Sony Hack Is 'Beyond the Realm of Stupid'
There's two layers to it now. There's the definition of terrorism and the reaction to it, which has been a combination of being both insipid and en...
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Pakistan's 9/11
Today the Pakistani military understands that the Frankenstein that it helped to create must now be killed.
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Sydney Residents Rally To Head Off Anti-Muslim Violence
Audie Cornish talks to Australian terrorism expert David Kilcullen about the relationship between the Australian government and Muslim communities.