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176262
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For decades, military assistance in southern Somalia focused on building up a central state army. This reflects standard patterns of Western assistance worldwide. Yet the nature of Somali society and clan, greatly affected by the winnowing process of more than 30 years of conflict, means that most sub-clan groupings are more militarily effective than centralised forces deployed to unfamiliar areas. The centralised Somali National Army remains riven by clan itself, thoroughly politicised, and ineffective (with the exception of the Danab special forces). Based on fieldwork and interviews with military personnel who work in Somalia, Colin D Robinson and Jahara Matisek argue that these locally appropriate forces deserve assistance, albeit with some caveats, in the continuing struggle against Al-Shabaab.
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176259
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Land-attack cruise missiles (LACMs) will be a pivotal component of the Royal Navy’s likely expeditionary posture in the future strategic environment. Currently, the service has only one mode of delivery for LACMs – its attack submarine fleet. And even when the Queen Elizabeth-class carriers fully come onboard, they lack a true standoff capability. At the moment, the navy’s surface force does not possess an LACM capability, and there is debate over whether LACMs should arm the new Type 26 frigate. Ben Wan Beng Ho assesses these three platforms for LACM deployment and shows that there are inherent shortcomings in the carrier aircraft and submarine options, notably in the combat power they can project.
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ID:
176265
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ID:
176264
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In this photo essay, photojournalist Susan Schulman continues to shed light on the journeys of migrants seeking to make their way to Saudi Arabia – after Djibouti, they often find themselves trapped in war-torn Yemen.
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ID:
176258
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Russia has pursued policies that blur the lines between peace and war. Weapons and enablers used in the five domains (maritime, air, land, space and cyber) have been transformed, leading to improved anti-access and area denial capabilities, as well as faster kinetic and non-kinetic operations. Such changes have occurred before Western democracies have been able to respond. NATO should close this gap by developing a framework for deterrence and containment within this competitive space. The Cold War United States Objectives and Programs for National Security (NSC 68) established goals for policy and promoted guidelines that both limited and authorised necessary acts that shaped an environment advantageous to Western democracies. Tyler Wesley argues that a new framework, inspired by examples drawn from NSC 68, is necessary.
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176260
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In this article, Patrick Bury and Michael Chertoff argue that the re-emergence of near-peer competition and the increasing complexity and pace of events in the next decade mean that Western services must improve their strategic intelligence collection, analysis and information exchange to focus on increasing strategic threats. Simultaneously, the continuing evolution of terrorism will require counterterrorism intelligence to also adapt.
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176261
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The link between crime and violent extremism (VE) has been the subject of increasing scholarly and political concern. While there is evidence to suggest a link between crime and VE, such evidence is particularly limited in developing countries. In an attempt to address this gap in understanding, Gayatri Sahgal and Martine Zeuthen conducted a study in a prison environment to investigate the relationship between criminality and VE in Kenya. The study finds a tenuous link between other types of crime and VE at the individual and organisational levels, with some indication of specific institutional patterns of recruitment and radicalisation within prisons
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176263
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Patrick Hinton pits the concept of an international rules-based order against a more nuanced reality. Employing a framework based on strategic culture theory, this article argues that states behave in ways predicated on their history and lived experience. This must first be acknowledged before states’ actions can be understood.
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176257
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This article attempts to map the influence of pro-Kremlin narratives on the Slovak cultural and educational landscape. Veronika Golianová and Aliaksei Kazharski enhance the understanding of pro-Kremlin activities by situating them in their broader political, cultural and historical context. Grasping this context is crucial to understanding why particular discursive strategies are selected and how they are adapted to the respective domestic audiences.
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