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Oct 2 |
Asia-Pacific |
Aki Peritz |
4104 Views
It’s easy to get caught up in the day-to-day static of the media cycle. But one underreported story is how the US has, in the last few months, gone from hero to zero in the Philippines, one of our closest allies in the...
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Sep 6 |
Bureaucracy, War of Ideas |
Aki Peritz |
5400 Views
For a few brief, shining hours, The Defense Intelligence Agency’s inner social media snark emerged. It retweeted a New York Times article about the logistical problems President Obama is having at the G-20 in Hangzhou with...
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May 6 |
CIA |
Samuel Kramer |
5632 Views
The top of the world had a new navy visit its waters recently. When five Chinese warships were spotted off the coast of Alaska last summer, the Pentagon announced, although no threatening activities had been detected, the...
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Jan 8 |
Asia-Pacific, Intelligence Analysis, Intelligence Collection |
Soo Kim |
3345 Views
On Wednesday, North Korea announced it successfully conducted a hydrogen bomb test — its first nuclear test since 2013. Shortly thereafter, seismologists detected an earthquake — man-made, according to South Korean...
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Dec 3 |
Asia-Pacific, Foreign Policy, War of Ideas |
Aki Peritz |
8304 Views
Religious fanatics conquer the second largest city in the country, imposing a strict theocratic code of laws that is brutally enforced. The capital is menaced. The land is laid to waste. Both sides target civilians for ethnic and...
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Nov 24 |
Bureaucracy, cyber, Secrecy |
Samuel Kramer |
4817 Views
In late September, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced it had significantly underestimated the number of fingerprints stolen in last spring’s massive data breach. Originally the estimate stood at 1.1...
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Nov 3 |
Big Data, Bureaucracy, cyber |
Aki Peritz, Pasi Eronen and Jani Antikainen |
2974 Views
This first ran in the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. Many cyberthreats are not just ‘technical’ problems. They are also leadership, human resources, and employee education problems. The popular conception of...
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Sep 11 |
Asia-Pacific, Intelligence Collection |
Soo Kim |
2716 Views
South Korea’s press and television media were all abuzz earlier this month over President Park Geun-hye’s attendance at China’s commemoration of the end of World War II (also known as “Victory Day”). News debate...
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Aug 18 |
CIA, Congress, Foreign Policy, Intelligence Collection, NSA |
Samuel Kramer |
2965 Views
Here’s what caught our eye in the world of intelligence this week: New documents purloined by Edward Snowden show the extent of the partnership between the NSA and telecommunications company AT&T. Documents described the...
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Aug 17 |
Asia-Pacific, Foreign Policy, Military |
Gabriel Alvarado |
5739 Views
Sino-U.S. ties certainly appear to be fraying these days, with Chinese land reclamation efforts in the South China Sea (SCS) being met by U.S. military freedom of navigation (FON) activities in these waters. Washington’s...
