Contemporary Irregular Warfare: Defense Strategy

Defense against biologic warfare with superantigen toxins.

BACKGROUND Superantigens produced by Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus pyogenes are among the most lethal of toxins. Toxins in this family trigger an excessive cellular immune response leading to toxic shock. OBJECTIVES To design an antagonist that is effective in vivo against a broad spectrum of superantigen toxins. METHODS Short peptide antagonists were selected for their ability to...

Exterminating the Cyber Flea: Irregular Warfare Lessons for Cyber Defence

Traditional approaches to tactical Computer Network Defence (CND), drawn from the lessons and doctrine of conventional warfare, are based on a team of deployed security professionals countering the adversary’s cyber forces. The concept of the adversary in cyberspace does not fit neatly into the conventional military paradigms. Rather than fighting an identifiable foe, cyber adversaries are clan...

Command and Control of Airpower in Irregular Warfare

Brits - Krieg : The Strategy of Economic Warfare

The Strategy and Tactics of Information Warfare

Over the last decade, information technology has been championed by policymakers, activists, international bureaucrats, business leaders and intellectuals as a catalyst for social transformation-generating economic growth and development, peace and global cosmopolitanism, personal freedom and individual empowerment. Like the industrial revolution before it, the information technology revolution...