Ten Things You Need to Know about Russian Military Exercises
September 21, 2017 5 min. read

The biggest Russian-Belarusian military exercise this year, started on September 14, 2017. Yet, this event has been analyzed by security pundits for months.

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President Trump’s War Room on Russia, As If Russia Were Running It
June 11, 2017 5 min. read

Trump is setting up a “war room” to counter the Russia probe. With talk about Russian government tactics for meddling in Western democratic processes, what would the Kremlin do in such a war room?

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China Long March Event Met with Protest in California
October 13, 2016 3 min. read

The event was not cancelled, thanks to the First Amendment right of free expression which does not exist in China under Communist Party rule.

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Chinese Propaganda Comes to Southern California
October 7, 2016 4 min. read

On October 8, a performance commemorating the anniversary of the Long March of the Red Army of the Communist Party of China will be presented in San Gabriel, CA.

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Law Enforcement in “Modern” Counterterrorism
August 29, 2016 7 min. read

The key to crafting effective counterterrorism policies depends on balanced judgments between democratic principles and security policies.

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Twitter, ISIS and Social Media Whack-a-Mole
February 9, 2016 4 min. read

Last week, Twitter announced that it suspended 125,000 accounts since mid-2015 suspected of “threatening or promoting terrorist acts, primarily related to ISIS.”

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The Inter-Korean Propaganda War
February 4, 2016 3 min. read

The intensifying animosity was coarsely expressed by a North Korean leaflet at the time: “Let us beat to death Park Geun-hye’s gang of dogs for resuming propaganda broadcasts and deteriorating North-South relations!”

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The Casual Propagandist Today
December 24, 2014 6 min. read

The exposure and arrest of @ShamiWitness, one of the “most-followed” ISIS-fan accounts on Twitter, is indicative of the problems inherent in trying to monitor the Islamic State’s activities from afar.

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Why Target and Talk Might Not Work: Insights from the Theory of Collective Action in Nationalist Politics
October 26, 2010 6 min. read

My colleagues Pat Frost and Rob Grace ( over at the Law and Security Strategy blog) and I have written extensively on why the situation in Afghanistan looks grim.  The war there is a long haul; the Karzai government is corrupt, a two-timing, untrustworthy thing; viable solutions to the conflict in Afghanistan require negotiated international […]

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