Revisiting the Right of Self-Defence against Non-State Armed Entities

Non-State Armed Groups

Fragile States: the Birthplace of Non-State Armed Groups in West Asia

Due to both internal and external factors, Western Asia has long been suffering from security problems and political instability. The institution of various military and militia groups in the region in the absence of powerful central governments is the focal point of the crises, where the internal and external factors meet. The development of such security and military interactions outside the ...

The mental health of the UK Armed Forces - Defence Viewpoints from UK Defence Forum

This briefing provides an outline of the current evidence on UK military mental health, including prevalence rates of mental health problems in serving personnel (regulars and reserves) and data on suicide, help-seeking, violence and offending. As yet, there is no evidence of a 'bow wave', 'tidal wave' or 'tsunami' of mental health problems in UK Regulars or Reservists. The data was fi...

The mental health of the UK Armed Forces - Defence Viewpoints from UK Defence Forum

This briefing provides an outline of the current evidence on UK military mental health, including prevalence rates of mental health problems in serving personnel (regulars and reserves) and data on suicide, help-seeking, violence and offending. As yet, there is no evidence of a 'bow wave', 'tidal wave' or 'tsunami' of mental health problems in UK Regulars or Reservists. The data was fi...

Defence against denial of service in self-aware networks

Denial of Service (DoS) has become a prevalent threat in today’s networks. Motivated by an impressive variety of reasons and directed against an equally impressive variety of targets, DoS attacks are not as difficult to launch as one would expect. Protection against them is, however, disproportionately difficult. Despite the extensive research in recent years, DoS attacks continue to harm. In o...