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- in the news | December 19, 2014 | Future of War
Still waiting on Sony hack attribution – Dark net more dangerous following FBI takedown – Home Depot breach to cost community banks $90M
Peter Warren SingerCyber 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... - in the news | December 19, 2014 | Future of War
Sony Hack: Three Lessons Learned for Corporations
Peter Warren SingerPeter Singer, author of “Cybersecurity and Cyberwar,” and senior fellow at New America Foundation, discusses the hacking attack on Sony Pictures re... - in the news | December 18, 2014 | Future of War
Cyber Expert Peter Singer: Sony's Embarrassment Has Set a 'Horrible' Precedent
Peter Warren Singer"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... - in the news | December 18, 2014 | Future of War
The Morning Download: Sony Attack Is Cybersecurity’s ‘Snowden’ Moment
Peter Warren SingerThe digital assault on Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. (much more on that below) has changed the public’s perception of cybersecurity, much as the... - in the news | December 18, 2014 | Future of War
The Sony Hack Is Not an Excuse to Pass Bad Cybersecurity Laws
Peter Warren SingerAs cybersecurity expert Peter Singer noted in our interview yesterday, "the ability to steal gossipy emails from a not-so-great protected computer ... - in the news | December 17, 2014 | Future of War
Sony pulls movie, amid reports linking North Korea to hack
Peter Warren SingerThe 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... - in the news | December 17, 2014 | Education Policy
"My Default is Polemic": Bringing Sass to Education Writing
Conor Williams isn’t shy about sharing his stories or his opinions. He’s shared with the whole Internet, for example, that he was mugged during his... - in the news | December 17, 2014 | Future of War
Reaction to the Sony Hack Is 'Beyond the Realm of Stupid'
Peter Warren SingerThere'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... - in the news | December 16, 2014 | Future of War
Pakistan's 9/11
Today the Pakistani military understands that the Frankenstein that it helped to create must now be killed. - in the news | December 16, 2014 | International Security
- in the news | December 15, 2014 | Fellows Future of War
Sydney Residents Rally To Head Off Anti-Muslim Violence
David KilcullenAudie Cornish talks to Australian terrorism expert David Kilcullen about the relationship between the Australian government and Muslim communities. - in the news | December 11, 2014 | Future of War
Africa: Colombia - From a Political Economy of War to an Inclusive Peace
David KilcullenIn one short decade, the country of Colombia moved from being a failed state to almost being the opposite today. This incredible success story, tog... - in the news | December 11, 2014 | Future of War
The Long March Goes On
Peter Warren SingerWhile NASA's Orion test flight dominated space news last week, CCTV reported on big steps for China's space program. In a Tianjin rocket factory, t... - in the news | December 11, 2014
Anne-Marie Slaughter talks to Antonio Mora
‘If you want to keep all those people productive and in the workforce, you have to make it possible. So the way to think about it is not ‘Can we af... - in the news | December 10, 2014 | International Security
Did torture help lead to bin Laden?
The Senate report provides the fullest accounting so far of the exact sequence of intelligence breaks that led the CIA to determine that the courie... - in the news | December 10, 2014 | Future of War
Is ISIS losing fight in key border town?
Douglas OllivantCNN's Brian Todd reports on the battle for Kobani and new disturbing videos from ISIS. - in the news | December 10, 2014 | Future of War
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Episode #46: An Interview with Shane Harris
But Harris is first and foremost a storyteller, and his zeal for the story is far more important to him than ideology. When he tells the story of t... - in the news | December 10, 2014 | Future of War
Stop the brass bureaucracy
Tom Ricks’ 2012 book, “The Generals” may be the first book ever written where the most explosive parts come in the acknowledgements, jotted after t... - in the news | December 09, 2014 | International Security
ARABIC: The Modern State and Islam: The Impossibility of Crossing
*يُجادل وائل حلاق، أستاذ الفكر الإسلامي في جامعة كولومبيا، في هذا الكتاب المفاجىء أن تعبير "دولة إسلامية" ينطوي على تناقض جوهري، يعكس تناقض فكرة ال... - in the news | December 09, 2014 | Future of War
Why hostage rescues fail
David Sterman Peter BerganSome of the successful recent hostage rescues such as the operations that freed Buchanan and Thisted, Phillips, and Hallums were operations to free... - in the news | December 09, 2014 | Future of War
Offset this! China's hypersonic glider flies for the third time this year.
Peter Warren SingerIt's been a fast year for Chinese hypersonic technology. The WU-14 hypersonic glider vehicle (HGV) flew for a third time on December 2, 2014. The t...