KeepNet 26 June 2008
More shrapnel from blogospheric steel [h/t The Hedge].
Dipnote, the US Department of State official blog, sums up the findings of UNESCO’s ‘Youth@the Crossroads’ conference in Manama, Bahrain:
Organizers of violent radical groups are aware of this need for separation and identity and exploit it. They appeal to and recruit these underdeveloped young people, who then take on the identity of the group. Once a person is part of this group, the person is willing to act in violent, extremist ways that he or she would never act as an individual. Hence, the work that the NGOs gathered in Manama are doing – providing programs that build and reinforce a young person’s sense of self and positive relation with his or her community – counter the dangerous influence of an exploitive violent group.
Another Human Terrain Operator Killed, this time in yesterday’s Sadr City bombing, and Mike Innes takes issue with employer BAE System’s opportunism in their reporting Nicole Suvege’s death. Bad timing by State then, bigging up PRTs and the Holistic Approach the day before.
Speculation is everywhere as to its substance, so why did the US Government classify its “National Intelligence Assessment on the National Security Implications of Global Climate Change to 2030″ asks Shloky Vaidya?
Shades of the Cold War as Pentagon Says, Missile Defense in Europe Needs Testing – this time it’s about Iran. But maybe we should be more worried about satellites? Terrorists will be launching strikes against them by 2020 – Noah Schachtman reports.
I’ve not read it yet, but Adam Hammond’s new article ‘The Cost of a Redundant State Media Strategy’ [available at SWJ] looks timely in the light of Matt Armstrong’s assertion that no-one seems to know what the hell public diplomacy is (and the US press is rubbish, says AJStrata). On this side of the pond, the UK defence community has Strategic Myopia, writes Charlie Edwards.
USAF seeks The Next Generation of UAVs.
Sam Liles on Cyber Warfare as Low Intensity Conflict, but how do you identify a cyber attacker? In other LIC news, the US Department of Justice launches a plan to combat and contain gang violence.
Steve DeAngelis on IARPA’s philosophy and game-plan.
The surge must be working, says Tom Barnett – oil companies are rolling into Iraq.
Shane Deichmans On Information beyond Arquilla et al, responding to a Liles-Tanji debate. Michael Tanji fires off his first post at Complex Terrain Lab with Information Warfare: Subduing the Echoes of History.
You’d think everyone had written something along these lines but it’s worth reading Jason Burke when he explains how not to prosecute the ‘war on terror’.
I’ve heard Rumsfeld quoted a lot recently and here’s an article about what he got right.
