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Meet the Human in Nuclear Deterrence

Allies & Extended Deterrence, Archive, Defense & Security, Emerging Threats, Strategic Adversariesacquired color vision deficiency, Air Force 711th Human Performance Wing, always/never reliability, CAD color vision test, cognitive psychology, color blindness, color vision, D-15 test, delivery platforms, demon core incident, Deterrence Posture, engineers, FAA standards, fallible humans, high-consequence systems, human element, human error, human factors, human performance, human reliability, industrial-organizational psychology, Ishihara test, national laboratories, Nuclear Deterrence, Nuclear Weapons, Pantex Plant, physicists, psychology, QMU, quantification of margins and uncertainty, Rabin test, red-green deficiency, sabotage, Sandia National Laboratories, Titan II missile explosion, tool slips, Tritan defect, Waggoner Computerized Color Vision Test, WCCVT, weakest link

Meet the Human in Nuclear Deterrence

Robert Kittinger0 Comments

Not long ago, uttering words like “human element” or “psychology” at a physics or engineering national laboratory would make scientists’ eyes roll. Their silence was a clear “does not compute”…

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How Civilian Dual-Use Technologies Are Reshaping Global Security Policies

AI & Deterrence, Archive, Defense & Security, Development, Strategic AdversariesAI-enabled navigation, AUKUS, autonomous weapons, Civilian dual-use technologies, collective defense, counter-drone strategy, critical infrastructure, drones, energy grid, espionage, export control regimes, FPV drones, global security policies, governance gaps, hybrid conflict, infrastructure attacks, innovation, legal frameworks, National defense, NATO, Nord Stream pipelines, procurement pathways, resilience, sabotage, start-ups, transportation hubs, unmanned aircraft systems

How Civilian Dual-Use Technologies Are Reshaping Global Security Policies

Harry Geisler0 Comments

In August 2024, police in northern Germany chased a fleet of drones loitering over critical infrastructure: a decommissioned nuclear plant, a chemical facility, and a Baltic liquified natural gas (LNG)…

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Russia’s Vulnerable Underbelly: The Failure of Force Protection on Critical Infrastructure

Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Strategic Adversariescritical infrastructure, cybersecurity, economic destabilization, energy sector, force protection, intelligence failures, internal dissent, international standing, logistical shortcomings, Military Doctrine, national interests. , natural gas, Oil, psychological impact, Russia, sabotage, security strategies, supply chain disruptions, tactical miscalculations, Ukraine conflict, vulnerabilities

Russia’s Vulnerable Underbelly: The Failure of Force Protection on Critical Infrastructure

Joshua Thibert0 Comments

Russia’s military doctrine, honed through decades of sparse experience and adapted in the post-Soviet era, emphasizes the projection of power and the defense of its vast territory. However, the ongoing…

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The 5GW Playbook: Silent Wars and Invisible Battlefields

AI & Deterrence, Allies & Extended Deterrence, Archive, Strategic Adversaries5GW, 5th-generation warfare, AI, Alouk water station, ambition, anti-satellite weapons, ASAT, autonomous drone strike, Beijing, Berlin Wall, biological warfare, Bollywood, China, CIPS, cold war, cyber networks, cyber sabotage, data, deepfake propaganda, Disinformation, drought, economic coercion, economic manipulation, espionage, false news, finance, financial system, food control, Hollywood, Huawei, hybrid influence operations, Hybrid Warfare, information dominance, K-pop, Libya, machine learning, manipulation, maritime terrorism. , military satellite market, narratives, One China Policy, Palau, pentagon, perception battle, quantum computing, Ren Zhengfei, Russia, sabotage, seabed, social engineering, South Korea, space dominance, subsea communication cables, SWIFT banking system, Syria, technology, telecom networks, THAAD missile defense system, US dollar, US sanctions, Venezuela, water scarcity

The 5GW Playbook: Silent Wars and Invisible Battlefields

Syeda Fizzah Shuja0 Comments

War no longer announces itself with the roar of fighter jets or the march of soldiers. It now lurks in the shadows where the front line is undefined. The recent…

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The Impact of Hungary’s New Liberal Immigration Standards

Archive, Strategic Adversariesborder security, Central Europe, China, Dan Cox, European Union, far-left extremists, Finland, French high-speed rail, Hungary, immigration policy, NATO, Russia, Russian agents, sabotage, Schengen Area, security, solidarity, special forces, strategic advantage, Ukraine invasion, Victor Orban, Vladimir Putin, warfare, Western democracies, Western leaders

The Impact of Hungary’s New Liberal Immigration Standards

Dan G. Cox0 Comments

Policymakers in the West often fail to take a holistic view of security. China and Russia are doing just that as they prosecute warfare below the threshold of overt conventional…

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