Category: Blogs

Top News: Morsi Appoints New Security Officials in Response to Rafah Incident

By Egypt Source

President Morsi appoints Maj. Gen. Mohamed Ahmad Zaki commander of the Republican Guard, and Maj. Gen. Mohamed Ra’fat Shehata as intelligence director replacing Maj. Gen. Murad Mowafi. Morsi also dismissed the Sinai governor and will appoint a new military police chief to replace Gen. Hamdi Badeen in response to the recent instability. SECURITY Egyptian troops […]

Infrastructure Alarm Sounds

By Harlan Ullman

Last week, three events should have sounded deafening alarms and issued unmistakable warnings about the vulnerabilities facing mankind. And a fourth was further frosting on this rather explosive cake. None did and complacency still reigns.

NATO Deputy Secretary General discusses security cooperation with South Korean lawmakers

By NATO

From NATO:  NATO Deputy Secretary General Ambassador Alexander Vershbow praised the Republic of Korea’s valuable contribution to global security in talks with a high-level delegation from the country’s National Assembly on Tuesday (7 August 2012).

Turkey retires generals jailed on coup charges

By Ayla Jean Yackley, Reuters

Italy’s Prime Minister warns of ‘a front line between North and South’ in Europe

By Mario Monti, Spiegel

From Mario Monti, Spiegel:  I can only welcome the ECB’s statement that the market for sovereign bonds in the euro zone is undergoing a period of "severe malfunctioning."

Libya’s NTC Turns over Power: Where Does the Transition Go From Here?

By Karim Mezran

Libya’s National Transitional Council (NTC), the highest governing since last year’s overthrow of Muammar Qaddafi, will turn over authority to the newly elected General National Congress (GNC) tomorrow. What does the turnover portend for the selection of a new government?  What are the powers of the GNC and what will its role be in the […]

Pentagon drops 2013 plan to close US bases, but proceeding to close bases in Europe

By Carlos Muñoz, the Hill

From Carlos Muñoz, the Hill:  The Defense Department (DOD) is abandoning its push for wide-scale base closures in the continental United States, focusing instead on plans to draw down military installations overseas, Secretary Leon Panetta announced Monday.

Cyber Hype: Flame, Stuxnet, and Boeing 787’s Falling from the Sky

By Brandon Valeriano

These last few months have been some of the most exciting, depressing, and troubling times for those interested in the phenomenon of cyberwar.  As a cyber skeptic deeply engaged in this emerging debate I want to take a step back and analyze what we have learned.

China: Cyber Threat and Cyber Threatened

By Derek S. Reveron and Jon Lindsay

In any discussion about the security of cyberspace, Chinese hackers are usually singled out as major threats. The most recent (and hardly unique) news involves an operation with Chinese origins, dubbed Byzantine Candor by government investigators, which has been stealing corporate and government secrets for years, to include emails from the president of the European […]

Top News: Gaza PM Calls for Permanent Palestinian-Egyptian Security Committee

By Egypt Source

Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh on Monday called for the establishment of a permanent security coordination committee with the government of Egypt after yesterday’s attack on the Egypt-Israel border in Sinai.