From Trauma to Tactics: Strategic Calculations of Sexual Violence in Ukraine

Since the start of the conflict in Ukraine, UN agencies have reported cases of conflict-related sexual violence. This blogpost explores how Russian military leadership exploits the knowledge that their troops perpetrate sexual violence in their strategic thinking.

The Ukraine War and Strategic Shifts in International Relations

The Fallacy of Casting China as an Imminent Threat: the Case of the Netherlands

To blame or not to blame?

How leaders frame crises and what they get out of it.

Operation Serval: the French Intervention in Mali

Despite initial successes of French military intervention against Islamists in Mali, the question remains to what extent the operation has managed to contribute to a long-term solution to the country’s troubles.

Why the military will not defeat the Islamic State

If we solely pursue military objectives and do not consider different, and sometimes conflicting or difficult opinions – we will fail in the fight against the Islamic State.

Syria: the mixed blessing for Israel

A large scale confrontation between Israel and Hezbollah is not very likely as the latter is currently involved in Syria, Iraq and even Yemen.

Negotiating with IS?

The brutal killing of an IS-held Jordanian pilot might make negotiating with IS not an option. Some captives of IS were freed though. So why not try to negotiate?

Operational Implications of the Cyber Security Threat Stack

Security teams have to start preparing for attacks that rate as ‘advanced’ now in order to deal with them tomorrow, and they have to start automating incident response. Using a threat stack as a tool allows the time to do just that.