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...blocking access to Web-based services - that could serve terrorist logistics or research cells, worries Alexander Neill, head of the Asia Security Programme at the Royal United Services Institute in London. "To what extent are organizations like al-Qaeda using cyber attack to do reconnaissance?" he asks. "Given their command and control, I have no doubt they have experts doing this." For now, though, there's reason to suspect that terrorists might not attempt the sort of online barrage to which Estonia was subjected. "Terrorism is about creating true fear with spectacularly lurid attacks," says Oxford's Zittrain. Groups like...
...going to build a base on São Tomé, like Guantánamo or Diego Garcia, is unrealistic," he says, but he adds that the U.S. is talking to several countries around the region about a permanent U.S. naval presence. The formation of Africom, a separate African command that's currently based in Germany, is another sign of Washington's increased focus on security in West Africa. "The question," says the diplomat, "is how do you secure these shipping lanes, these oil platforms, in an area where the Africans themselves acknowledge they are virtually incapable of controlling their...
With the media attention on the big names in the election, how do you expect to win the nomination? -Roland Green, DENVERI have to do well enough in the first primary states to command the media attention that I would otherwise have to buy. That's why we in the second tier are all fearful of these compressed primaries. We can't afford to run in 10 states at one time...
There are signs that some troops may be voting with their feet. Planners at the Army Human Resources Command have detected an increasing shortfall in the number of junior officers, particularly captains, who are willing to stay in the service. Captains are to combat units what quarterbacks are to football teams: they lead, direct and decide the details of nearly every operation on the ground. By the time they approach re-enlistment, most captains have about eight years in uniform and are the most experienced officers who still work directly with new recruits. "If you start losing company-grade officers...
...that regard, Bratton tried to move fast, quickly condemning the cops' behavior, demoting the deputy chief and commander in charge at the scene and reassigning 60 other officers involved. Earlier this week Bratton released the department's internal report on the incident and appointed a deputy chief to oversee the management of all rallies and major events. The report blamed the melee on a "breakdown of command and control," but some city council members and community activists have said it is an incomplete accounting and focuses too much on the protesters' actions that day and not enough on the department...