Category: Blogs

McAffee: Destructive, Stuxnet-level cyber attacks will increase in 2013

By John Reed, Killer Apps

From John Reed, Killer Apps:  IT security firm McAfee has just released a report on what it thinks will be the biggest trends in cyber for the new year.

Russia to hold large-scale naval exercises in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea

By RIA Novosti

Time for Strategic Learning

By Harlan Ullman

British Field Marshall Viscount Alanbrooke of Brookebrorough, one of World War II’s most accomplished and distinguished generals, regularly complained about the lack of American strategic thinking. In Alanbrooke’s view (and Churchill’s too) Washington was too anxious to open a second front the continent and woefully unprepared to face the superior Nazi Army in battle. Hence, […]

Russia to Triple State Defense Order by 2015

By RIA Novosti

Japan’s Coming Challenges: What Awaits Shinzo Abe

By Rajan Menon

Shinzo Abe became prime minister of Japan—its seventh in six years —after his Liberal Democratic Party, which has governed Japan for all but four years since 1955, won parliamentary elections resoundingly, ending a three-year interlude by the Democratic Party of Japan.

Will the Egyptian Pound Drop Below 7 to the US Dollar?

By Mohsin Khan and Svetlana Milbert

It is almost a truism that when a minister of finance or a central bank governor says that the currency will not be devalued, it is time to short the currency in question and bet on devaluation. By extension, the same holds when the country’s financial managers specify a floor for the exchange rate when […]

Top News: Conflicting Statements on Egypt Opposition Forces Attending Morsi’s National Dialogue Talks

By Egypt Source

Continuing his work in the Presidency on a voluntary and temporarily basis, former Egyptian vice president Mahmoud Mekki announced that opposition coalition National Salvation Front (NSF) will participate in the next round of National Dialogue. National Salvation Front Spokesperson Hussein Abdel Ghany, however, has denied Mekki’s remarks. GOVERNMENT & OPPOSITION Conflicting statements emerge on Egypt […]

Majority of British polled support pre-emptive cyber attacks

By Tom Whitehead, Telegraph

From Tom Whitehead, Telegraph:  The majority of the public believe pre-emptive strikes are justified if enemy states or hi-tech criminals pose a threat to national security. Earlier this year, a committee of MPs and peers said Britain should declare cyber war on those who target the country through aggressive retaliatory strikes to destroy their operations. […]

Fewer NATO fatalities in Afghanistan during 2012, but insider attacks up

By Denis D. Gray and Rahim Faiez, AP

From Denis D. Gray and Rahim Faiez, AP:  Violence in Afghanistan fell in 2012, but more Afghan troops and police who now shoulder most of the combat were killed, according to statistics compiled by The Associated Press.