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Irregular Warfare and Future War: Strategy and Defense Planning; Strategic Insights, v. 10, Special issue (October 2011), 92-98. Topic: Global Trends and Future Warfare ; Part II: Technological and Doctrinal Innovation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This article appeared in Strategic Insights, v.10, Special issue (October 2011), 92-98. Topic: Global Trends and Future Warfare ; Part II: Technological and Doctrinal InnovationThe purpose of this paper is threefold: to speculate on the role and ...
Russell, James A.
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Asymmetry of values, indigenous forces, and incumbent success in counterinsurgency: evidence from Chechnya [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This article fills the gap in existing scholarship on asymmetric conflict, indigenous forces, and how socio-cultural codes shape the dynamics and outcomes of conflict transformation. Specifically, it identifies three key socio-cultural values commonplace
Aliyev, Huseyn, Souleimanov, Emil A.
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

Reducing Humanitarian Migrants' Welfare Dependency through Language Support: Evidence from Australia's Adult Migrant English Program

open access: yesEconomic Record, EarlyView.
Humanitarian migrants are among the most vulnerable migrant groups, often facing significant integration challenges, particularly language barriers. In response, many developed countries have introduced language programs to support their settlement. This study uses an event study (staggered difference‐in‐differences) approach and data from Australia's ...
Bowen Wang, Tunye Qiu
wiley   +1 more source

Defected and loyal? A case study of counter-defection mechanisms inside Chechen paramilitaries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Can former insurgents in the service of counterinsurgent paramilitaries be considered a perfectly loyal force? What mechanisms may help to deter subsequent defections of individuals who have already “betrayed” once?
Aliyev, Huseyn   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Does AI Affect the Democratic Conduct of War? Analyzing US and Israeli Military AI Deployment

open access: yesGlobal Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how the use of decision‐support military Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems can affect the democratic conduct of warfare. AI can challenge the democratic conduct of warfare by introducing systemic risks such as reduced oversight, opacity, and automation bias.
Alessandra Russo
wiley   +1 more source

Jus Ad Bellum after 9/11: A State of the Art Report [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
An examination of the applicability of conventional and revisionist just war principles to the global war on ...
Rigstad, Mark
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Bridging the Late Antique Gap in Northwest Arabia: New Archaeological Evidence on the Occupation of Wādī al‐Qurā (al‐ʿUlā [AlUla], Saudi Arabia) Between the Third and Seventh Centuries CE

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 2019, the Dadan Archaeological Project (CNRS/RCU/AFALULA) identified a Late Antique village 1 km south of ancient Dadan in the al‐ʿUlā valley (northwest Saudi Arabia). Three excavation seasons at this site (2021–2023) have uncovered a massive building constructed in the late third or early fourth cent.
Jérôme Rohmer   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Navy Nexus [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Shortly after the article that follows was drafted, I was notified that I had been nominated for promotion to vice admiral and assignment as Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy.
Carter, Walter E. Ted, Jackson, John E.
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