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 Murat Caliskan | May 27, 2017 | Commentary, Political & Hybrid Warfare, Research
Hybrid warfare has become new orthodoxy in international community which allegedly describe the characteristics of contemporary warfare. Furthermore, ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict is almost unanimously referred as a model for hybrid warfare. However, both...
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 Adam S. Locke | May 10, 2017 | Commentary, Cyber Security, Disruptive Technologies, Political & Hybrid Warfare, Research
Military experts are best known for their ability to plan. Planning is essential in all military activities due to the nature of war. War itself is an ill-structured problem. The better you plan, the less complex the problem gets and becomes well structured. Famous...
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 Transatlantic Task Force | May 7, 2017 | Commentary, Cyber Security, Political & Hybrid Warfare
As usual, the world watched the United States elections on November 8. Donald Trump won the election and started as the 45th US president, contrary to expectations and surveys. The results of the elections surprised the international community. Meanwhile,...
