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114385
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What are cyber-weapons? Instruments of code-borne attack span a wide spectrum, from generic but low-potential tools to specific but high-potential weaponry. This distinction brings into relief a two-pronged hypothesis that stands in stark contrast to some of the received wisdom on cyber-security. Maximising the destructive potential of a cyber-weapon is likely to come with a double effect: it will significantly increase the resources, intelligence and time required for development and deployment - and more destructive potential is likely to decrease the number of targets, the risk of collateral damage and the political utility of cyber-weapons.
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114386
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International cyber-security is an increasingly pressing issue for leading national powers. The next few years will be crucial to the establishment of a coherent diplomatic framework: rather than wait and see what the haphazard conglomeration of state behaviours will bring, Paul Meyer argues that the international community needs to act now to define what constitutes legitimate state behaviour in cyberspace.
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114390
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2012.
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Europe's economic and political system is broken, and this reality will stay with us for the foreseeable future. Anyone wishing to understand the coming challenges of defence and security policy must appreciate that the implications of the European crisis will reach far beyond the financial markets. Jonathan Eyal takes a closer look at the faultlines on which today's Europe is resting, and points out the ways in which economic and political instability could spill over into the security realm.
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114393
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2012.
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More than twenty years on, the collapse of Yugoslavia still offers salutary lessons on crisis management and intervention - activities the international community will find no less essential now than in 1991. Drawing on new evidence, this article shows how Western leaders had prescient intelligence on the political currents in Yugoslavia, and yet followed a knee-jerk policy counter to them. The stubborn preference for stability and the familiar at a time of global systemic uncertainty ultimately bore the terrible consequences of Vukovar, Sarajevo and Srebrenica.
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114389
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2012.
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There is a growing discussion of the concept of 'influence' in British military circles. It potentially offers a way of doing more with less in an era of conflict amongst the people. But rather than being an entirely radical new idea, influence is part of a long tradition of manoeuvrist British military thinking on the conduct of war. The challenges are, argues Alexander Alderson, to ensure it is seen as part of that continuum, and to ensure its appropriate application by a broad base of practitioners through a standardised approach - and one rooted in the British Army's fundamental ethos of manoeuvre.
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114391
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2012.
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NATO's Libya campaign was the latest test in the Alliance's ongoing quest to show its enduring value. Mark Laity takes stock of the challenges faced, goals achieved, and lessons offered by the operation, in this personal but highly compelling assessment by a long-standing NATO insider.
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114394
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2012.
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T E Lawrence is often indicated as a model of successful interaction between Western armies and tribally organised societies - the inspiration behind the training of the AfPak Hands. But the Lawrence myth, argues Brock Millman, is a misleading one, and his contemporary, Sir Arthur Lawrance, is a better model. What is needed in countries like Afghanistan is a system of trained professionals on the blueprint of the British Colonial Service - an elite of specially selected civilian administrators with local authority.
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114388
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2012.
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This insider's account of the 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review identifies the structural and political shortcomings of the process, and suggests a set of reforms and conceptual changes that need to be implemented in order to ensure an efficient and effective delivery of national security policy.
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114392
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2012.
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The German armed forces are undergoing an unprecedented reform whose revolutionary nature has so far been poorly understood internationally. Bjoern Seibert explains the context, goals and process that led to the reform, analyses the political debate that surrounded it, and lays out the details of what is the most far-reaching reform effort since the end of the Cold War.
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ID:
114387
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2012.
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Following his retirement from the British Army, marked by a valedictory lecture at RUSI in November 2011, Mungo Melvin continues to reflect on the political-military relationship in the making of British strategy. He argues that successful strategy can only be achieved through the responsible exercise of political primacy, based on politically aware - never partisan - professionally robust military advice.
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