African borders are well-known for their porosity. Although they are crucial economic interfaces, they also crystallize political and security...
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a priority defense issue for the military powers of the 21st century. Unsurprisingly, the United States and China are currently at the forefront of this new digitalized arms race.
In the context of a persistent impunity enjoyed by organized crime and drug trafficking groups, many countries in Latin America, and especially Mexico and Colombia, have opted to assign military personnel to internal security tasks.
The designation of an enemy is always the result of a political decision, which generally leads to the opening of hostilities.
Deception operations, which refer to manoeuver, economy of armed forces and surprise, need to be reintegrated at the center of strategy to respond efficiently to modern threats.
Something is happening with the military forces of the Arab monarchies in the Gulf.
This study, based on original judicial sources, assesses the profiles of 137 individuals sentenced in France for cases related to jihadism.
The ability to penetrate remote and contested theaters of operation is a crucial asset for any expeditionary military power.
Over the past few years, a debate on possible scenarios of limited nuclear weapons use has surfaced again in the United States. Russian nuclear saber-rattling since 2014 and the growing tensions in the Korean peninsula have led Washington to reassess its own ability to deter, or respond...
As Democratic Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) continuous development of non-conventional weapons and challenges of the international community reaches a new level, Republic of Korea (ROK) appears more than ever as the frontline state on which most of North-East Asia security depends.