Nonstate armed actors in 2022: Alive and powerful in the new geopolitics
Editor’s Note: This piece is part of a series titled “Nonstate armed actors and illicit economies in 2022″ from Brookings’s Initiative…
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Ngozi James The United States on Monday offered a $10-million reward for information leading to the “identification or location” of…
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Complex Air Defense: Countering the Hypersonic Missile Threat
•A Report of the CSIS Missile Defense Project By Tom Karako, Masao Dahlgren DOWNLOAD THE REPORT WATCH THE EVENT Summary Hypersonic weapons…
Ukraine: Germany, France on diplomatic pivot to Washington and Moscow as UK, Turkey step up defence efforts
In meeting with Putin, with Ukraine issue looming large, French president says he hopes to find answers to security issues…
The Pentagon wants to ruin China’s ‘Sputnik Moment’
Microwaves and turbulent air could kill China’s hypersonic missiles on the cheap. By Jack Detsch Stop if you’ve heard this: China…
Syria’s Kurds wanted autonomy, they hot an endless war
•The Kurds of northeastern Syria dreamed of establishing an autonomous, multiethnic and gender-equal utopia. Instead, their breakaway region has been…
Coups: Targeted sanctions are trendy, but not very dffective
By Erica Gaston Sanctions are in the air everywhere these days. Just this week, there was a ratcheting up of…
Wave of juntas in Africa and the worrisome celebratory reception by civilians
By Olusegun Akinfenwa Within the past 18 months, Africa has experienced six coups, with the most recent in Burkina Faso…
Chinese hackers target Taiwanese financial institutions with a new stealthy backdoor
By Lakshmanan A Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT) group has been targeting Taiwanese financial institutions as part of a “persistent…