RAND researchers in a recently released report explore biology as the platform on which future wars will be fought. Plagues, Cyborgs, and Supersoldiers: The Human Domain of War "examines the …
The Network Swarm Attack on Israel and the Escalating Global Networked War
Intelligence Failure? Black Swan? Gray Rhino? Systemic Failure? An entropic, sclerotic Israeli political system? The geopolitical and regional power context for the recent surprise, large scale and …
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Bio-Futures 2050: Defense Impacts and Opportunities for Advantage
Background Biotechnology innovation holds the potential to ensure food security, biosphere safety, sustainability, and the development of a disruptive new class of therapeutics. The USG has …
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To prepare for urban warfare, soldiers train for chemical attack, mass disaster response in Detroit
"As the Army and top leaders look to a potential urban fight in dense, dangerous and confusing terrain, their National Guard counterparts are working the complexities of urban response right now. …
The Devourers – Al-Baghdadi and The Islamic State
"ISIS is an ‘imminent threat to every interest we have,’ warned Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel. ‘This is beyond anything we’ve seen. We must prepare for everything.’ In an article appearing in The …
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France: A Defense and Foreign Policy Revolution
Highlights - Sarkozy touts commitment to transformation of the country’s military into a smaller, more mobile force - A reduction in military personnel will allow France to better finance …
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Al-Aqsa Brigades: Chemical warfare if Israel invades Gaza
The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Fatah’s armed wing, announced that it has developed biological and chemical weapons, Palestinian news agency Ramattan reported. “With the help of Allah, we are pleased to …
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Tests confirm the Explosive Destruction System’s (EDS) ability to destroy biological agents
New capability may offer applications for homeland security, war theatres. From the beginning, researchers at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Sandia National Laboratories, the creators …
Technical Hurdles Separate Terrorists From Biowarfare
The fear of terrorism and the preparations to combat it have been the major preoccupation of national and domestic security concerns in recent years. The fear of bio-terrorism has been of major …
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Technical Hurdles Separate Terrorists From Biowarfare
Hoping to hasten the doomsday their leader foretold, scientists who were members of Japan's Aum Shinrikyo cult brewed batches of anthrax in the early 1990s and released it from an office building and …
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