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The salman doctrine in Saudi Arabia’s foreign policy: objectives and the use of military forces

, 2019
Saudi Arabia’s foreign policy is one of the central elements in the analysis of the current dynamics of the Middle East. King Salman and the crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, are introducing significant changes in the international activities of the kingdom, through a more assertive and militaristic policy, especially to deal with the different ...
González Gómez, María Paloma, Hernández Martínez, David   +1 more
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Crisis, temporality and governmental policy agendas: The cases of Finland and Sweden

Scandinavian Political Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract Crises transform the temporal orientation of political decision‐making. They demand immediate and decisive action and thus convert time into a means of political control. In these circumstances, assessing the long‐term consequences of proposed policies with respect to welfare, sustainability or justice also becomes demanding.
Henri Vogt, Mikko Värttö
wiley   +1 more source

Low Intensity Conflict: Contemporary Approaches and Strategic Thinking

, 2007
Low Intensity Conflict (LIC) is a significant feature of the contemporary world and it is a particular challenge to the armed forces of many states which are involved is such conflict, or are likely to become so.
Searle, Deane
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From talking tools to metahumans: social interaction, semiotic skill, and the authority of AI chatbots Des outils parlants aux métahumains : interactions sociales, compétences sémiotiques et autorité des robots conversationnels

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
What does it take to turn a tool into a talking tool and that into an ultimate authority? Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in its diverse forms, such as large language models (LLMs), is celebrated as a useful tool. But LLM‐based conversational agents, or chatbots, the software applications through which ordinary users are likely to engage ...
Webb Keane
wiley   +1 more source

Road to Abu Ghraib: US Army detainee doctrine and experience.

, 2005
The US Army’s experience with detainee operations spans the period from the Revolutionary War to the present. More to the point, over the past 60 years a body of international law and military regulations, the joint and Army doctrine derived from it, and
Gebhardt, James F.
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Robowar dreams: US military technophilia and global south urbanization [PDF]

, 2008
This paper seeks to open up to critical scrutiny the attempts currently being made to re-engineer post-cold war US military power to directly confront global south urbanisation. Through analysing the discourses produced by US military commentators about \
Graham S
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The trouble with TESSOC: the coming crisis in British and allied military counterintelligence doctrine [PDF]

This article examines the evolution of UK military doctrine on counterintelligence (CI), one of the more consistently troubled aspects of military doctrine in general and intelligence doctrine in particular.
Davies, PHJ, Steward, TJ
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The response of the Military Health System (MHS) to the COVID-19 pandemic: a summary of findings from MHS reviews

Health Research Policy and Systems
Introduction The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused major disruptions to the US Military Health System (MHS). In this study, we evaluated the MHS response to the pandemic to understand the impact of the pandemic response in a large ...
Alysa Pomer, Satish Munigala, Christian L. Coles, Jessica Pope Mitro, Andrew J. Schoenfeld, Joel S. Weissman, Tracey Perez Koehlmoos   +6 more
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‘Everything is a signal’: speaking circuits and noisy signs in the making of language‐oriented AI « Tout est signal » : circuits parlants et signes bruyants dans la création de l'IA orientée langage

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are often presumed to be capable of revealing unmediated truths about the world, including the truths language might hold, echoing the long‐standing assertion that language's primary function is to directly translate reality.
Beth M. Semel
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond shared interests : the US and the evolution of Indian military strategy [PDF]

, 2016
For more about the East-West Center, see http://www.eastwestcenter.org/Arzan Tarapore, Asia Studies Visiting Fellow at the East-West Center in Washington, explains that “While shared interests between the US and India are real – and while they have ...
Tarapore, Arzan
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