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How to Combat ISIS, Starting in Your Community
Partnering with ISIS makes sense from an economic perspective for many of these organizations, especially the smaller militant groups operating ins...
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Why ISIS is spreading across Muslim world
Partnering with ISIS makes sense from an economic perspective for many of these organizations, especially the smaller militant groups operating ins...
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How to Fix America's Foreign Policy
Henry Kissinger’s new book should be read as a salvo in the ongoing foreign policy struggle for Barack Obama’s soul. It is a book of many parts, bu...
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The Missiles of Zhuhai: China Displays New Strike Arsenal
At Zhuhai 2014, the proliferation of world class precision guided munitions on display shows not just Chinese interests in extending its hitting po...
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An In-Depth Look At The U.S. Cyber War, The Military Alliance And Its Pitfalls
In the book @War, Shane Harris reports that U.S. intelligence agencies, sometimes aided by corporations, are trying to dominate cyberspace. It's "c...
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Inside the Middle East’s vanishing ancient religions
Gerard Russell, a British-American ex-diplomat who lived in Jerusalem, Baghdad, and Kabul, is interested in the religions that have survived even w...
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Soldiers, Spies, Cyberwarriors: '@War' In The Internet Age
"It was a really instructive and, I think, very scary war gaming exercise for people in the military," writer Shane Harris tells NPR's Arun Rath. "...
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Interview: Counter-insurgency expert David Kilcullen
David Kilcullen: It's different in three major ways. Firstly, it is much bigger and more militarily capable than al-Qaida ever was. It has tanks, i...
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The Lawfare Podcast, Episode #100: Shane Harris @War
Shane Harris, national security writer for the Daily Beast, was the first ever guest on the Lawfare Podcast, back when it was the most experimental...
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China's New Exoskeletons: Not just for Call of Duty or Tom Cruise Anymore
Powered exoskeletons have long been a staple of future warfare visions, seen in everything from movies like Aliens and Edge of Tomorrow to the late...
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China Shows Off Its Growing Drone Fleet
While much of the buzz at the Zhuhai Air Show has been about new manned stealth Jets in China’s arsenal, it has also shed light on how China's unma...
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Not As Sexy As Stealth, But Maybe More Important: China Shows Off New Cargo Planes
At Zhuhai 2014, China debuts the Y-20 heavy transport to the entire world, with a USAF C-17A Globemaster III present as a guest of honor. Meanwhile...
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The guys saying Iraq and Syria don’t exist are writing a recipe for a general war (14)
The notion that this process can be managed to American advantage is nonsense. We saw what a comparable effort to redraw boundaries to accommodate ...
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Why that New York Times story about chemical weapons in Iraq is important
I didn't see what the big deal was about the New York Times story on chemical weapons in Iraq, mainly because in '03-'04 everyone there knew there ...
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China's J-31 Stealth Fighter: Then and Now
China has joined the U.S. in being the only nations to have built multiple stealth fighter classes. This week, China shows off its newest fighter, ...
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‘Serial’: An investigative journalism podcast becomes a cultural obsession
The answer turned out to be: a lot of people. Chaudry isn’t the only one with a first-thing-Thursday appointment with the multi-part true-crime inv...
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'@War' details the unsettling implications of cyber warfare and espionage
A new book by Shane Harris chronicles the startling rise and unsettling implications of cyber warfare and espionage. @War: The Rise of the Military...
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Five By Five Friday Q&A: Shane Harris, Author of @War
Shane Harris is a reporter at the Daily Beast and the author of the acclaimed book “The Watchers.” His new book, “@War,” hit the shelves this week....
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On the Frontline of the Digital Battlefield
*For his new book, "@War," The Daily Beast's national security correspondent Shane Harris interviewed people on the frontline of technological warf...
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Obama’s Foreign Policy
From Ukraine to the Middle East to China, the United States is redefining its role in international affairs. Alliance building, public diplomacy, a...
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Are today's leaders prepared for cyberwarfare?
Peter W Singer, a strategist and senior fellow at the New America Foundation, is lecturing on cyber security and cyber war at Sydney University ton...
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Secretive D.O.D. Drone Dodges Defenses At Hypersonic Speed
The details behind the U.S. and China’s HGV programs remain confidential, but that real-world tests—however spectacular the crashes—are taking plac...