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.

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Kurd Success Fosters Arab Anger

The economic success of the Kurdistan region of Iraq was inevitably going to raise tensions between northern and southern Iraq. That is one of the primary reasons that the Pentagon’s Business Transformation

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The Rise of the Social Entrepreneur

New York Times’ columnist Nicholas Kristof, while in Davos, Switzerland, covering the World Economic Forum, came across a very different group of people than the normal politicians, business people, and protesters [“The

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Tribalism, Kenya, and AFRICOM

Anyone who has been following international news has watched or read with dismay the rising violence in Kenya following presidential elections. The Kikuyu tribe, which has long been the dominant tribe in

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Beyond Abu Ghraib

You generally have to watch old war films on the Turner Classic Movie channel to see one in which the military is shown in a positive light. More often, the military is

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Internecine Challenges in Kurdistan

In a couple of previous posts, I discussed the deteriorating security situation along the Turkey/Iraq border in the Kurdistan region because of PKK rebels who live in and launch attacks from that

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The Kurdish Situation Intensifies

Last week, in a post, I noted that I think things are growing more tense between Turkey and Iraq (more specifically the Kurdish region of northern Iraq) because of cross border incursion

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