Edward Snowden is guilty of lot of things. But contrary to Kurt Eichenwald's recent Newsweek analysis, he did not "escalate the cyberwar." Eichenwald interviews a host of business, intelligence, …
FBI: Smart Meter Hacks Likely to Spread
"A series of hacks perpetrated against so-called “smart meter” installations over the past several years may have cost a single U.S. electric utility hundreds of millions of dollars annually, the FBI …
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Hype, Social Media, and Networked Social Movements
"What good did social media actually do for the people of Iran?" TechCrunch's Paul Carr asks. "Despite a slew of YouTube videos and a couple of thousand foreign Twitter users turning their avatar …
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Toward Operational Art for Policing
The military, facing a complex and intractable mixture of “wicked problems” on the battlefield, has responded with a doctrinal revolution in the production and practice of operational theory. But …
A Millennium Challenge for Homeland Security
Among defense insiders, Millennium Challenge 2002 stands out as one of the most controversial red team exercises in American military history. MC2002 suspiciously resembled the looming invasion of …
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Frontlines of Criminal Insurgency: Understanding the Plazas
Mexico, and the cross-border region that embraces the frontier between Mexico and the United States, are embroiled in a series of interlocking, networked criminal insurgencies. These criminal …
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The Rise of Cyber-Mobilization
In Gaza, a tentative ceasefire has been declared. But the war in cyberspace continues. Israel and its adversaries have taken to the global cyber commons to wage cyberwar against each other, deploying …
Can Strategy Be Crowdsourced?
Criminal, terrorist, and insurgent networks have become powerful world actors. They utilize network forms of organization to make fast decisions, cover a wide operational space, remain resilient in …