On Social Media & Sock-Puppetry
There appears to be a sophisticated social media campaign supporting the Bahraini government on Twitter. Several sock puppet accounts purporting to be ordinary Bahraini citizens are following defense...
View ArticleRegime change on the cheap?
The cost incurred by the US in the Libyan intervention has been $896 million through July 31st. Gaddafi appears to be standing on the precipice of defeat, with rebels at the doorstep of his Tripoli...
View ArticleRolling up a spy network… the CIA vs. Hezbollah in Lebanon
The rather disconcerting news that several CIA assets have been compromised by Hezbollah in Lebanon surely has the intelligence community reeling*. This certainly hasn’t been the first time a spy...
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Drones and conspiracies
I wouldn’t ordinarily post something like this on the blog, but it was too long for Twitter. The most creative conspiracy theory I’ve heard in the past few days is that the US “lost” the RQ-170...
View ArticleNuclear Iran: The Day After – a simulation by the INSS
The Institute for National Security Studies in Israel has released a summary of their recent Iran simulation. Read the full text here (PDF). Of particular note is the “A New Regional Security Regime”...
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Iran & the Great Game: 2012 Edition
The Great Game (not to be confused with the Game of Thrones) is no longer a game for two. The imperial powers of prior ages have been replaced with coalitions of nations at least loosely aligned in...
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HUMINT and Strategic Deception in the 1973 Arab-Israeli War
When the fourth war of the Arab-Israeli conflict broke out on October 6th, 1973, Israel found itself surprised and unprepared for the first time — a potentially fatal mistake for a nation possessing...
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