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Effective Sovereignty in the 21st Century
Abstract: Much has been said about globalisation. Despite being a multiple-meaning term with controversial connotations, it is almost universally understood to apply to the exogenous environment circumstances of economic and other forces that have been generated in recent decades, owing especially to the reduced costs and time needed for the transit of goods and a… Read More
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India’s Theatre Command – Challenges and Issues
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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A Brief History of Terrorism
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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Information Warfare and Influence Operations
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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Conventional Armed Forces in the Cold War: The Key to Control?
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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Chemical Weapons Use Doctrine in the 20th Century
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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How to Set a Theater from an Information Warfare Perspective
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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The Impact of Narcoseries on the Acceptance of Hard-Line Security Policies: The Mexican Case
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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Cultivating The Capability For Connectivity: A Perspective For Ireland’s International Security
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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The Anthropology Behind Disinformation and Manipulation
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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