Category Global Risks & Future Threats

RAND envision the world in 2040, analyze security challenges that will shape it and offer guidance to policymakers

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In coming decades, emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and 3D printing will pose new risks to people, nations, and global security. At the same time, accelerating change will challenge policymakers’ capacity to adapt. Some of the questions that Michael…...

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Armed conflicts can be prevented or reduced using Early Warning tools to analyze, track, and forecast fragility and conflict

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In 2017, Deadly crisis zones have rightly been in the news: The crisis in Yemen, in which Saudi Arabia used equipment provided by the US and UK to bomb noncombatants and blockade supplies, has seen the civilian death toll climb…...

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Media a critical element of National Security and a Force Multiplier for Military

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In this new age of information revolution, Media has become an important pillar of national Power, with power to influence public opinion. Media shapes the perception of decision-makers and people. In addition, based on these perceptions the political decision-makers formulate…...

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Rapid deployment of Directed Energy Weapons is leading to search and development of counter directed energy technologies, techniques and tactics

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Directed-energy weapons are among a handful of maturing disruptive or asymmetric technologies that could confer game-changing technological advantages both as a superior defensive capability and as an effective electronic attack option. US Navy’s 30-kilowatt Laser Weapon System (LaWS) on USS Ponce…...

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U.S. Intelligence Community’s statement on Worldwide Threat Assessment for 2016

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U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence held a hearing on “Current and projected national security threats to the U.S” from Director of National Intelligence, James R. Clapper. The fast and radical change in the world and our threat environment is…...

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Russia’s “Ocean Multipurpose System: Status-6” for “Assured Unacceptable Damage”

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During President Vladimir Putin’s meeting with military officials in Sochi, where the development of Russia’s military capabilities were being discussed, a number of TV crews were able to capture footage of a paper with drawings of a new nuclear submarine…...

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Senate Panel Explores Future of Warfare and Speed of Innovation of U.S. Military Technology, Weapons Development

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U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ), Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, delivered the following opening statement at a hearing on the future of warfare: “Today, we focus on the future – what features will define the battlefields of tomorrow,…...

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Alarming future security threat, World population to hit 11 billion by 2100

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A new study led by the University of Washington and the United Nations finds that world population is likely to keep growing throughout the 21st century, reaching 11 billion by 2100, about 2 billion higher than widely cited previous estimates.…...

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