Category Global Risks & Future Threats

Rising threat of Mine Warfare with development of stealthy, smart, maneuverable and networked sea mines

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Traditional navies as well as maritime terrorists can and have used mines and underwater improvised explosive devices (UWIEDs) to challenge military and commercial uses of the seas. Mines have been utilized in defensive capabilities, such as denying access into a…...

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Russia and China testing US’s HAARP like Radar, for weather modification or jamming american submarines

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The U.S.  Navy and DARPA ran a facility–the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) in Gakona, Alaska—before it was passed to the University of Alaska in 2014. HAARP  was a research program to study ionosphere and its response to…...

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With China rapidly militarizing Quantum technologies, U.S. Army funding assessment of military potential of quantum/Electronic Warfare (EW) based threats

Quantum Radar to Track Ballistic Missiles

A global race has ensued to exploit and operationalize quantum technologies for the use of military effects. Quantum information science (QIS),  field comprises four domains: Quantum Communication, where individual or entangled photons are used to transmit data in a provably…...

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New sensor protection technologies to mitigate threat of growing laser designators and Directed Energy Weapons

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In recent years, high power fiber and semiconductor laser technology has improved rapidly, with power density increasing by an order of magnitude or more. Much of this increase has been driven by demand for industrial cutting machines and high-bandwidth, long-range…...

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DARPA’s Insect Allies, enlists Insects to protect agricultural food supply, could be used for biological warfare, warn experts

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The life of a plant that we depend on for food, clean air, and materials are challenged by myriad threats, natural and man-made including Viruses, pests, fungi, herbicides, drought, pollution, salinity, flooding, and frost. These rapid or unexpected emergence of…...

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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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