By Scott Morgan We are roughly thirty days into Operation Peace Spring. The Turkish Intervention into Northeastern Syria which was launched days after President Trump made the controversial decision to shift the small US Troop presence in the Country. This presents a very apropro opportunity to do an assessment of what Turkey’s Counterterrorism Strategy is…
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The overlap on Risk Management, GRC and Compliance.
More than Fake News We are experiencing a continuous effort to disseminate “Fake News” from specific actors, including the habitual suspects, Rusia, Iran or China, but also in the corporate field and private sector we find many samples of Disinformation. One of the main victories form the Dark Side, is the name “Fake News“, a…
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One of the most interesting aspects of politics in recent memory has to be the hidden links between what on the surface would be two distinct crises. This phenomenon appears to be currently playing out on the Southern Border of the United States. Cameroon refugees in Mexico, are already there. At this time one of…
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The twenty-four hour period around August 7, 2019, was one of the most interesting periods in recent memory for the people of Kyrgyzstan. The fallout from these events will have a long-lasting impact as well not just for Kyrgyzstan but possibly for Central Asia as well. The issue in question was an initial raid by…
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Talking about Security and Business cycle, required to understand something: Our time has a significant amount of changes in the areas of Security and Businesses, new terms appeared in our vocabulary or made a twist in the significance, we are moving on a fast pace environment connected with New Technologies, Globalization, Emerging Markets, Corporate merges…
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On Sunday, May 5th the people of Panama went to the polls to decide who would be their next President. Laurentino Cortizo of the Democratic Revolutionary Party was victorious in what was a closely contended race. However, there were several interesting takeaways from the polls. First of all was just how close the polls were.…
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Gas & Oil Protection With increasing piracy acts in the Mexican waters, targeting especially Oil and Gas Platforms, the Organized Crime is opening their range of activities, hitting this industry in a very lucrative step. Opposite to the typical Maritime Security (MarSec), the protection of the platforms have a very distinctive peculiarity, they are fixed…
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At an event sponsored on Capitol Hill by some Foreign Policy groups on April 2nd comments made by Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) states that in his opinion there are several locations where US Troops are present that should fall under the auspices of the War Powers Act. Just 24 hours prior to the event on…
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Just when one thinks that the situation in the Great Lakes of Africa could not get any more bizarre it just happens to do just that. Over the last fortnight two former allies during the Congo Wars in the 1990s President Kagame of Rwanda and President Museveni of Uganda are in the middle of a…
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