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Abstract: Based on terrain and strategic challenges, the following essay proposes a framework for India’s Theatre Command system. Larger theatre structures allow for more flexible military power collaboration, whereas inter-service integration enables centralised joint planning and distributed military power application. The four suggested Theatre Commands are shaped by the aforementioned characteristics. The Northern and Western… Read more →
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Abstract: To combat the phenomenon of modern-day terrorism, it is necessary to understand its origin, various forms, transformations and strategies that have been developed to counter it. More importantly, it is also impartial to identify the mistakes that have been made along the way so as to eradicate them. The reasoning here is that the… Read more →
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Abstract: Information Warfare and Influence Operations (IW/IO) are offensive tools in countering state and non-state disinformation. If applied in the context of statecraft, IW/IO can be an offensive deterrence strategy to any would-be adversary. Evidence suggests the shortcomings of traditional public affairs/public relations campaigns. Dealing with a large body of data of adversarial disinformation, we… Read more →
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Abstract: In popular consciousness, the Cold War is contextualised as a period of crises and tension underwritten by nuclear arms. However, analysis of various crises and strategic considerations of the period makes it apparent that conventional armed forces played an enduring, understated, and overlooked role in the conflict’s origins, maintenance, and end. Without such forces,… Read more →
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Abstract: On April 22, 1915, a new chapter in warfare began. The first systematic mass use of chemical weapons offered new and hitherto unimaginable possibilities in planning and carrying out combat operations. The decades that followed were marked by constant innovation, both in terms of the technology of production and transmission of toxic agents and… Read more →
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Abstract: Whereas the characteristic of war as an act of violence remains unchanged, warfare itself has developed throughout the history of humankind. In all times, successful military leaders exploited all given, known, and required domains of warfare. However, the increasing importance of the information domain as an enabler of asymmetry appears to be undervalued. Multi-domain… Read more →
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Abstract: This paper explores the role a specific kind of entertainment product may have on higher acceptance of violence and of ‘hard line’ security policies to combat it; the author analyses so-called narcoseries through a review of communication concepts within cultivation theory, and explains how they use narrative to create empathy for violent protagonists, thus… Read more →
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Abstract: With the launch of the Public Consultation on International Security Policy in Ireland, the Irish people are being asked to discuss how they see their future international security policy. Being an island nation with a history of colonial repression and a presence built upon a deeply internationalised trade; Ireland must ensure that the latter… Read more →
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Abstract: In today’s intensely interconnected world (a bi-product of globalization), numerous objects and processes are important enough to be constituted as components of an individual’s relevant environment, notwithstanding the reality that they exist or take place beyond the brain’s anthropologic operational range — in terms of time, geographic distance, selection, semantics or conceptualization. Said changes… Read more →
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Abstract: African states on the frontiers of the fight against insurgents that appear to share ideological ideals with the Taliban may resolve to implement measures that hinder surprises. Boko Haram has launched attacks in Southern Niger which have claimed the lives of over a dozen soldiers. Comparatively, the presence of Rwandese forces in Mozambique that… Read more →








