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Airpower and Modern Politics: Symbolism Beyond Effectiveness
Abstract As hitches multiply in the Baltic Sea, or the use of missiles and drones in Ukraine, the Middle East, Russian and NATO forces are showcasing successive demonstrations of their respective air power. The face of air power changed since the heroic image…
Covert Action in Irregular Wars: Unraveling the Case of Timber Sycamore in Syria (2012-2017)
Abstract The Central Intelligence Agency ran a covert operation in Syria from 2012 to 2017 called Timber Sycamore. This qualitative case study employs content analysis and descriptive inference to analyze declassified documents, government records, and other …
Exclusively For EC: A LANDSCAPE IN FLUX: IRA, 2025 BUDGET BATTLE, AND GLOBAL POLITICS CROSSROADS...
The year 2025 has brought significant challenges in American politics and international affairs. Key issues include shifts in global energy alliances and debates over the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) under the returning presidency of Donald Trump. Complicati…
The Human Terrain Program Done Right: Legacy of the Soviet Partisan Movement and the Underground ...
“War’s nature is violent, interactive between opposing wills, and driven by politics. War’s character, its conduct, constantly evolves under the influence of technology, moral forces (law or ethics), culture, and military culture, which also change across ti…
Outside the Box: We Need to Appreciate and Learn from AI’s (and Our Own) Flaws
Person-to-person communication produces learning. Institution-to-person communication produces two contrasting things: instruction and propaganda. Artificial intelligence is neither a person nor an institution. But it functions like an institution masqueradin…
MERICS – China’s fragile online spaces for debate
This analysis is part of “China Spektrum,” a joint research project with the China Institute of the University of Trier (CIUT) funded by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation. As part of this project, we analyze expert and public debates in China. Learn more about…Development and evaluation of a digital behavioral economics game towards improved understanding ...
The earliest and often most significant impacts of climate change in the American West is on water resources. For communities reliant on irrigated agriculture, ensuring water security in the face of climate change can be critical to the preservation of local …
Labor spending blitz points to April 12 election
Medicare and public schools have been budgeted for in Labor's most recent pre-election spending announcements, while Peter Dutton's plans are, as ever, just around the corner... The post Labor spending blitz points to April 12 election appeared first on Crike…
Will Markets Go Up Now That Trump Is President?
Donald Trump was the first president in modern U.S. history to take office without holding a prior public office or serving in the military. This non-traditional path to the White House came with a distinctly corporate approach to economic and fiscal policy, …Skeptical Science New Research for Week #10 2025
Open access notables Snow Mass Recharge of the Greenland Ice Sheet Fueled by Intense Atmospheric River, Bailey & Hubbard, Geophysical Research Letters: Atmospheric rivers (ARs) have been linked with extreme rainfall and melt events across the Greenland ice sh…
