Category: Security

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Security in Kurdistan

I made several references over the past week to the Peshmerga, the Kurdish military that helped provide security during our trip to Kurdistan. The competence of this group is one of the

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Resilience in Kurdistan

In Wednesday’s post, I wrote that Kurdistan’s relative peace has permitted it to achieve a level of prosperity and economic growth that is the envy of the rest of Iraq. That peace

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Trends and Shocks

Retired Navy Captain Terry Pudas, who inherited the Pentagon’s Office of Force Transformation from the late Art Cebrowski, recently wrote a short piece describing an alternative construct for defense planning [“Trends and

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Profiting from Chaos

If there weren’t winners (i.e., people who profit) in or from conflict situations, we would have much less conflict. The truth is, however, that there are winners and there are losers. In

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Climate Terror

Canadian iconoclast, futurist, and conflict expert Thomas Homer-Dixon has turned his attention to climate change and its potential for tearing societies apart [“Terror in the Weather Forecast,” New York Times, 24 April

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Incompetence to the Maxx

Last week the parent company of TJ Maxx (TJX) reported the theft of nearly 46 million credit and debit card numbers from customers in the United States, Britain and Canada. This didn’t

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Managing Watch Lists

Anyone who travels probably has a nagging fear (even if it resides in the back of their mind) that their name will mistakenly get placed on a terrorist watch list. It seems

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