Keystones of Irregular Warfare

Command and Control of Airpower in Irregular Warfare

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...

Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies : Keystones of Galaxy Evolution

Dwarf spheroidal galaxies are the most insignificant extragalactic stellar systems in terms of their visibility, but potentially very significant in terms of their role in the formation and evolution of much more luminous galaxies. We discuss the present observational data and their implications for theories of the formation and evolution of both dwarf and giant galaxies. The putative dark matt...

Legally Fair Contract Signing Without Keystones

In two-party computation, achieving both fairness and guaranteed output delivery is well known to be impossible. Despite this limitation, many approaches provide solutions of practical interest by weakening somewhat the fairness requirement. Such approaches fall roughly in three categories: “gradual release” schemes assume that the aggrieved party can eventually reconstruct the missing informat...

A Different Kind of Threat Some Thoughts on Irregular Warfare Jeffrey

ments fighting against other irregular elements, regular forces of a central government, or an external interven tion force. The acquisition and use of modern military technology is often seen as a solution to the problems of warfare in the late 20th century, with infor mation warfare the latest example. Irregular warfare, however, remains confoundingly unaffected by changes in technology. In a...