by Emmanuel R. Goffi | Jan 26, 2021 | Commentary, Disruptive Technologies
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is progressing. And if we are not careful, it may well become a trojan horse for one single premise: the imposition of a universal approach to ethical decision making. The quest for this Holy Grail of a universal Code of ethics in AI has...
by Hall Gardner* | Jan 20, 2021 | Commentary, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics
The Trump presidency has set into motion the geostrategic and political-economic dynamics that have begun to morph the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) into Major Power Warfare— or what the US State Department euphemistically calls Great Power Competition. Since the...
by Ali Hashem** | Jan 12, 2021 | Commentary, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics, Peace & Conflict Management
A year after Iran’s most renowned general was assassinated in a U.S. drone strike, Tehran is still struggling to recover from the loss. While Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani left behind an entire bureaucracy called the Quds Force – the overseas operations arm of the...
by General (ret.) Joseph Votel** | Dec 28, 2020 | Commentary, Peace & Conflict Management
As the commander of U.S. Central Command from 2016-2019, I was responsible for conducting military operations and supporting U.S. security policy in Yemen. These responsibilities mainly focused on the prosecution of our counter-terrorism campaign against al-Qaeda....
by Dr. Aziz Erdogan* | Dec 28, 2020 | Commentary, Defence & Security, Political & Hybrid Warfare
Introduction The DF-26 Intermediate-Range Ballistic Missile (IRBM) made its first public appearance at a military parade in September 2015 in Beijing. During this parade, China exhibited 16 missiles on road-mobile transporter-erector launchers (TELs). At the event,...
