Flight MH370 confirmed lost: experts respond
Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak has confirmed that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 crashed in the southern Indian Ocean, with no survivors. In a press conference, Razak said new information proved...
View ArticleMH370 should make us rethink how we monitor planes
We need more detailed information to adequately track planes.Robert Couse-Baker, CC BYSearch ships may be honing in on the black box from missing Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370 after weeks of...
View ArticleCable snips and fake Mexican burglaries: how the WWI information battle was won
German soldiers man a wireless telegraph.Military intelligence has relied on observing and reading enemy messages since the earliest times of conflict. But it was during World War I that great leaps...
View ArticleHere's how you find out who shot down MH17
More than a month has passed since Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashed with the loss of all 298 lives on board. But despite the disturbances at the crash site near the small town of Grabovo, near...
View ArticleDo Russia's flying Bears really pose a risk to civilian air traffic?
Move along now.Ministry of Defence, CC BYThere’s an element of sabre-rattling to Russia’s Tu-95 “Bear” aircraft probing the boundary of European nations’ airspace, something that had long gone on...
View ArticleHow Syria is becoming a test bed for high-tech weapons of electronic warfare
Author providedThe relationship between Russia and the West is becoming increasingly dangerous with potential flashpoints developing in both eastern Europe and Syria. After repeated incursions into...
View ArticleMH17 crash report establishes the cause, but only criminal investigation can...
The Dutch Safety Board’s report into the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines MH17 and the death of all 298 people on board presents compelling evidence that the aircraft was destroyed by a missile...
View ArticleUS fears a Russian attack on undersea internet cables that could plunge world...
It may sound far-fetched at first, but there’s a growing fear of the damage a newly aggressive Russia might inflict in a time of tension or conflict simply by damaging or cutting the undersea cables...
View ArticleWhat police can learn from a terrorist's discarded mobile phone
The dramatic raid on an apartment in the Paris suburb of Saint Denis that left two dead and eight arrested followed the discovery of a mobile phone by police that was discarded by the terrorists who...
View ArticleThe next war will be an information war, and we're not ready for it
Aaron AnsarovIn the 21st century the familiar form of warfare in which physical damage is meted out against the opponent’s military forces and infrastructure has become only one form of attack....
View ArticleTo defeat Islamic State we must sever its oil lifeline – here's how
USAFThe high costs of running the Islamic State’s “caliphate” and fighting a ground war are largely met from selling oil, supplemented with donations and money extorted from Christians and hostages....
View ArticleHow computer hacking is becoming Russia's weapon of choice
World wide web war.ShutterstockIn his 2007 address to the Annual Security Conference in Munich, Vladimir Putin threw down a gauntlet to the West. Attacking what he called “illegal” unilateral military...
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