The Beat Europol banding together to fight Daesh Europol has launched a new counterterrorism centre in the wake of the Paris attacks. In anticipation of more terrorist attacks occurring across Europe, the new centre will …
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Indonesia’s worst terrorist attack in six years may have set Jakarta on edge and introduced a troubling new tactical dimension to Southeast Asian terrorism, but the pistol-wielding militants failed to live up to what’s normally …
The Beat High-tech policing The Washington Post’s Justin Jouvenal takes a look at how police and law enforcement agencies are increasingly able to use technology to calculate a suspect’s ‘threat scores’. Software such as Beware …
The Beat Combatting the tobacco trade The US State Department recently released a new report, The Global Illicit Trade in Tobacco: A Threat to National Security, in support of the US National Strategy to Combat …
I was thrilled to see that ‘ASPI suggests’ recently made reference to Star Wars—the film series, not the missile defence system—by way of a September 2009 article from The Economist on the lack of counterinsurgency …