by Mustafa Ozkan | May 30, 2017 | Commentary, Defence & Security, Disruptive Technologies, Political & Hybrid Warfare
“We have won a war with a lot of heroes flying around in planes. The next war may be fought with airplanes with no man in them at all,”said General Henry Arnold, the only Air Force General to hold a 5-star rank in two different US military services, (1945).[1] The...
by Sebastian S. Stolberg | May 10, 2017 | Commentary, Defence & Security, Political & Hybrid Warfare, Research
Turkey is one of the few countries conducting air defence almost solely with aircraft, despite sizable armed forces with a wide array of capabilities. As odd as it sounds, it has been a disturbing reality for military officials for a long time as the Armed Forces...
by Mark Barry | May 10, 2017 | Commentary, Cyber Security, Defence & Security, Political & Hybrid Warfare
In Ukraine, on December 2015, an energy facility was hit by Russian-affiliated cyber group, and 225.000 people between 1-6 hours were affected from this outage. (1) Outage assuming as first well documented successful cyber-attack on a power grid. This recent incident...
by Yusuf Kerem ALPERENOGLU | May 7, 2017 | Commentary, Defence & Security, Fighting Organised Crime and Terrorism
“Master Euphrates tells bold and nice Sincere weeping in his eyes.” The counterterrorism struggle, which had been carried out in the mountains or the forests until recently, has now transformed into urban warfare. Some of the prominent reasons which caused this to...
by Hasan Suzen* | Apr 28, 2017 | Commentary, Defence & Security, Political & Hybrid Warfare, Research
The aim of this study is to propose a model by comparing “fixed force composition and classical HQ structures” with “a New modular design” that could increase and enhance capabilities and capacity of armed forces, in particular flexibility, adaptability, agility, and...
