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John Antal Feb 144 minMask or Die: Surviving in Today’s High-Tech Battlespace Against a Peer Enemy“The tendency towards under-rating firepower...has marked every peace interval in modern military history.” Captain Sir Basil Liddell...
Millie MorseFeb 1412 minSeeking the High Ground: American Space StrategyDisclaimer: This piece was originally drafted in May 2021 and has not been altered since its initial submission. The international system...
John Antal Nov 29, 20216 minDeath from AboveHow Secure Tactical Video Transmission Impacted the 2d Nagorno-Karabakh War An Azerbaijani Loitering Munition (LM) detonates over an...
Jacob WilliamsNov 29, 20213 minCYBERCOM, the IC, and CyberwarfareIn 2018, U.S. CYBERCOM published its command vision titled “Achieve and Maintain Cyberspace Superiority.” ¹ This vision follows in a long...
Audrey KuhnleNov 29, 20217 minIsrael's Intelligence Assessment Before the Yom Kippur WarBook Review: Israel's Intelligence Assessment Before the Yom Kippur War Summary of Events On the morning of October 5th, 1973, Israel...
Matt GillOct 4, 202111 minIntelligence Plans: a study for effective intelligence teams in Large Scale Combat OperationsNOV 6, 1942 GEN Patton Diary entry. Off the coast of Tunisia. “In forty hours I shall be in battle, with little information, and on the...
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Sarah MesichSep 24, 202110 minCounterintelligence and Neuroscience: The Merits and Limitations of the Polygraph, fMRI, and EEGAuthor and lecturer Terrence McKenna speculated that language was developed in pursuit of deception – in other words, that our most...
Ryan SullivanSep 8, 20217 minThe Soviet Sisyphus: Intelligence Failures Derived from the Soviet-Afghan War In December 1979, Hafizullah Amin, the president of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA), found his country seized via a highly...
Sean SlaughterSep 8, 20216 minHistory Is Repeating Itself in AfghanistanUpdate: Since the writing of this paper, the Afghan army has fled and Kabul has fallen much quicker than expected. These events do not...
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Olivia JacksonSep 8, 202120 minOperation Atlantic ResolveOperation Atlantic Resolve refers to the ongoing military efforts of the United States in response to Russia’s involvement in Ukraine,...
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