Category: Security

In this blog, we discuss cognitive computing and other technologies with a focus on supply chain management and innovation. Other topics of discussion include digital enterprise transformation, marketing, the Internet of Things, and smart cities. Our goal is to advance the public discussion about how cognitive computing and other advanced technologies affect the world in which we live.

Bradd C. Hayes is the active editor of this blog.

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R&D in the Intelligence Community

This past April I wrote a blog entitled Happy Birthday DARPA that focused on an article celebrating that agency’s 50th anniversary. DARPA has been a remarkably successful agency with a notable number

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The End of Intervention?

In a recent post, I focused on a column by Roger Cohen [Turning the World Upside Down]. In that post, I quoted Cohen on the subject of international security. He wrote about

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Conflict and Dislocation

With over 5 million people in China having lost their homes during the recent series of earthquakes, the plight of the half a million people dislodged by conflict during the first five

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The Growing Concern over Small Nukes

When analysts involved in national security affairs get together to contemplate the future, they must look at both the probability and potential consequences of various risks. Some risks have a high probability

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Development and the Rule of Law

Corruption is one of the surest ways to undermine development. Almost every country at the bottom of the economic pyramid suffers from corrupt government, which is the reason that decades of foreign

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Turkey Invests in Kurdish Region

In many of my posts about the security situation along the Turkey/Iraq border, I’ve noted that the solution is more economic than diplomatic and more diplomatic than military. Both the central Iraqi

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Conflict Resolution in Africa

Two New York Times columnists, Roger Cohen and Nicholas Kristof, recently wrote about two situations in Africa that appear to have very different stories unfolding. Cohen wrote about Kofi Annan’s apparent success

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Commodity Conflicts?

Everyone knows how rapidly China has been growing. A couple of years ago, China was consuming 40% of cement in the world (US=6%), 33% of cotton (US=7%), 27% of steel (US=12%), 23%

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