Tag: The Science of Where Magazine

Afghanistan/USA – A Moment for Soul-Searching (Defense One)

Eliot A. Cohen My Afghanistan war lasted almost exactly two years, from the beginning of 2007 to the end of the Bush administration in January...
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Afghanistan/USA – The 1 Thing That Could’ve Changed the War in Afghanistan (Defense One)

David Frum Had the United States caught and killed Osama bin Laden in December 2001, the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan would have faded away...
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USA – The Pentagon Needs a Strategy That Does Not Hinge on Fragile Networks (Defense One)

Dan Grazier The U.S. military “failed miserably” during a wargame scenario last fall when the opposing force gained control of American networks in the first...
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Afghanistan – Satellite photos show chaos in Afghanistan exit (Defense News)

Nathan Strout New satellite images show a chaotic scene Monday at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport in Afghanistan as the United States government and its allies...
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USA – US Army endorses tactical drone contest to replace Shadow (Defense News)

Jen Judson The U.S. Army has given the green light to proceed into a competition to replace its aging, runway-dependent Shadow unmanned aircraft system with a new tactical...
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USA – Red 6 lands contract to put augmented reality on a T-38 training jet (Defense News)

Valerie Insinna For the first time ever, a U.S. Air Force T-38 will be outfitted with an augmented reality training system that allows it to dogfight...
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USA – General Dynamics opens new unmanned underwater vehicle manufacturing center (Defense News)

Megan Eckstein General Dynamics Mission Systems, focused on moving its Knifefish unmanned underwater vehicle through low-rate initial production, has opened a new UUV manufacturing and...
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Cybersecurity – T-Mobile confirms data breach that exposed customer personal info (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini T-Mobile confirms a breach after threat actors claimed to have obtained records of 100 million of its customers and offered them for sale T-Mobile confirms...
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Cybersecurity – Recent attacks on Iran were orchestrated by the Indra group (Security Affairs)

Pierluigi Paganini The recent attacks that targeted Iran’s transport ministry and national train system were conducted by a threat actor dubbed Indra Recent attacks on Iran were orchestrated...
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Decarbonizing Industry – How to decarbonize heavy-duty transport and make it affordable (WEF)

Renewable electricity grid increases EV sustainability. Source: ABB Amina Hamidi, Enrique Meroño Heavy-duty trucks are responsible for 25% of global road emissions, despite only representing...
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USA – One year after Schrems II, the world is still waiting for U.S. privacy legislation (Brookings)

Cameron F. Kerry As the invalidation of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield still casts uncertainty over international data flows more than a year later, the need...
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Afghanistan/USA – Around the halls: The Taliban retakes Afghanistan (Brookings)

Madiha Afzal, Ranj Alaaldin, Daniel L. Byman, Giovanna De Maio, Vanda Felbab-Brown, Marvin Kalb, Suzanne Maloney, Patrick W. Quirk, Itamar Rabinovich, Douglas A. Rediker, Bruce Riedel, Federica Saini Fasanotti, Constanze Stelzenmüller, and Shibley Telhami Nearly 20 years after...
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Azerbaijan/Pakistan/Turkey – Azerbaijan Boosts Trilateral Cooperation With Pakistan and Turkey (The Jamestown Foundation)

Vasif Huseynov On July 27, the parliamentary speakers of Turkey, Azerbaijan and Pakistan signed a strategic partnership document—the “Baku Declaration”—in Baku, Azerbaijan, which creates a...
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Belarus – Summing Up: One Year Since the Disputed Presidential Elections in Belarus (Jamestown Foundation)

Grigory Ioffe On August 9, 2021, exactly one year since the ill-fated last presidential election, President Alyaksandr Lukashenka conducted a press conference that lasted more...
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Russia – August Anniversaries in Russia: A Litany of Bad Memories (Jamestown Foundation)

Pavel K. Baev Each August witnesses some critical and usually unhappy events for Russia, and this year is particularly rich with round anniversaries. Sixty years...
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Afghanistan/USA – America’s Withdrawal of Choice (Project-Syndicate)

RICHARD HAASS The swift fall of Kabul recalls the ignominious fall of Saigon in 1975. Beyond the local consequences – widespread reprisals, harsh repression of...
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