by editor | Aug 22, 2014 | COMOPS Journal, Indonesia
by Mark Woodward* [Editor’s note: Yesterday there were news reports that an ISIL-inspired plot to bomb a Carlsberg brewery in Malaysia was foiled.] Iraq and Syria have become magnets for Indonesian jihadists in much the same way that Afghanistan was in the...
by John Podesta | Apr 3, 2014 | Monitor
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel hosts a roundtable meeting with defense ministers from the Association of South East Asian Nations in Honolulu, Hawaii, April 2, 2014. (DoD Photo by Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo) As this week’s report by the Intergovernmental Panel on...
by editor | Mar 9, 2014 | Analysis, COMOPS Journal, Publications, Research
Security vs. Liberty: The Discourse on Terrorism in the United States and Morocco and Its Societal Effects by Valentina Bartolucci, CSC Visiting Fellow Pre-press open access here. Abstract: This article first analyzes some of the main features of the political...
by Andrew Holland | Nov 13, 2013 | Monitor
This article about the Philippine Typhoon is cross-posted. It has appeared on Sustainable Security and from the Weather Channel. On Friday, November 8, Super Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in the Central Philippines, around the island of Leyte, as possibly the most...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Jul 16, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis Within months after I arrived in Manila summer 1992, the US Navy took its ships and sailed off – the first time the Philippines had been left to fend for itself after 350 years of Spanish rule and 94 years of American military presence. (Photo...