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5 Jun 2019, 6:00 am
Four Types of Pressure The Trump administration has mainly used four types of pressure to put its maximum pressure campaign into action: economic sanctions; designating the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO); diplomatic efforts; and, more recently, the deployment of military assets. [read post]
23 Apr 2019, 12:03 pm
What explains this remarkable intelligence and security failure is not yet clear. [read post]
17 Apr 2019, 2:11 pm
The refusal to acknowledge widely exposed covert interventions, or “open secrets”—think of the presence of Russians in eastern Ukraine or American covert aid to rebel groups in the Syrian civil war—still helped limit wars by communicating a degree of restraint. [read post]
14 Apr 2019, 7:00 am
Despite some intelligence cooperation, Turkey remains—at least for now—committed to pushing Assad from power. [read post]
5 Apr 2019, 6:12 am
Several other nations have characterized their military operations in Syria as acts of self-defense against the Islamic State and not aimed at Syria itself, deeming the Syrian government “unwilling or unable” to suppress the threat that the Islamic State posed (for examples, see letters from Australia and the U.K. to the Security Council). [read post]
1 Apr 2019, 12:09 pm
Amos Gilead on Russia’s 2015 intervention in the Syrian civil war and the future of the regional power balance. [read post]
25 Mar 2019, 1:38 pm
Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) on congressional intelligence oversight. [read post]
17 Mar 2019, 7:25 am
In other words, HTS has claimed the narrative of the Syrian conflict. [read post]
15 Mar 2019, 2:50 pm
However, it was the prosecutor’s decision to include U.S. forces and intelligence officials in that potential investigation that truly riled the Trump administration. [read post]
15 Mar 2019, 2:50 pm
However, it was the prosecutor’s decision to include U.S. forces and intelligence officials in that potential investigation that truly riled the Trump administration. [read post]
6 Mar 2019, 5:25 am
Nathan Swire posted this month’s edition of Water Wars, covering Chinese military activity off the coast of Thitu Island in the Philippines. [read post]
5 Mar 2019, 5:00 am
The legislation is named in honor of the former Syrian military photographer “Caesar,” who smuggled evidence of systematic torture and killings out of the country. [read post]
22 Feb 2019, 6:00 am
The other agencies are the Military Intelligence Directorate, the Air Force Intelligence Directorate, and the Political Security Directorate. [read post]
20 Feb 2019, 9:56 am
Microsoft announced a newly-discovered spear-phishing campaign linked to APT28, a Russian military intelligence unit involved in 2016 U.S. election interference, that targeted prominent European think tanks ahead of parliamentary elections in 2018, the Post details. [read post]
15 Feb 2019, 5:00 am
Although the extent of Sino-Syrian cooperation remains ambiguous due to Beijing’s firm denial of any active military presence, the cooperation has reportedly only deepened, with China supplying intelligence personnel, strategic advisors and special forces in 2017. [read post]
14 Feb 2019, 8:25 am
This week we open with the Supreme Court: What are the stakes in the Larabee litigation concerning the recall of retired military personnel in order to subject them to court-martial jurisdiction? [read post]
20 Jan 2019, 7:00 am
U.S. military assistance—usually through advising, intelligence, Special Forces, and air support—is used to guide and stabilize local allies, but recipients are expected to lead and own the political-military battlespace in the hope that their increased ownership of the fighting will generate increased political legitimacy in their constituencies. [read post]
8 Jan 2019, 12:12 pm
In particular, Turkey looks likely to pursue military action against Syrian Kurdish groups. [read post]
16 Dec 2018, 7:00 am
States also increasingly rely on private military contractors. [read post]
7 Dec 2018, 5:18 pm
National Prosecutions based on Universal Jurisdiction: the cases of Germany, Sweden, and “France” Last June, Germany’s chief prosecutor issued an international arrest warrant for Jamil Hassan, head of Syria’s powerful Air Force Intelligence Directorate, and one of Syria’s most senior military officials. [read post]
