A Choke-point Strategy on the Dark Web

By Levi Maxey: Did you know that when you “google” something you only access a fraction of the World Wide Web? Indeed, commercial search engines only scratch the surface, about…
Chronology Sources
…https://register.consilium.europa.eu/doc/srv?l=EN&t=PDF&gc=true&sc=false&f=ST%2017175%202008%20INIT&r=http%3A%2F%2Fregister.consilium.europa.eu%2Fpd%2Fen%2F+08%2Fst17%2Fst17175.en08.pdf February 10, 2009 https://www.thespacereview.com/article/2023/1 Nov. 27, 2009 https://swfound.org/media/29039/space%20security%20index%202010%20full%20report.pdf February 10, 2009 https://www.thespacereview.com/article/2023/1 March 7, 2009 https://swfound.org/media/29039/space%20security%20index%202010%20full%20report.pdf May 14, 2009 https://swfound.org/media/29039/space%20security%20index%202010%20full%20report.pdf November 27,2009 https://swfound.org/media/29039/space%20security%20index%202010%20full%20report.pdf April 22, 2010 https://www.spacesecurity.org/space.security.2011.revised.pdf November 3,…
Recent Challenges to US Security Interests in Northeast Asia
…issue on both sides could severely damage the relationship between the two countries, especially in light of the Google conundrum, disagreements over the environment and other high profile cases of…
Who Controls Your Internet? The Debate Over DNS Blocking

…allowing them to control what websites users can access.” This is closely tied to internet censorship as it grants governments or ISPs to block websites they consider harmful, which can…
Pezeshkian Marks a Rough Anniversary as Iran Faces Relentless Pressures

…media sites such as Instagram and X never materialized, despite half-measures like unblocking WhatsApp and Google Play. Economically, Pezeshkian inherited a perfect storm: inflation exceeding 40%, chronic unemployment, power and…
Implications of US-India Trade Announcements

…as the L&T-General Atomics drone collaboration, Google’s AI investments in India, and the Quad table-top exercise on HADR), bureaucracy and industry need the safety net of higher political alignment, which the announcement of this agreement…
Sea Of Absurdity: Sansha, China’s New Island “City”

By Richard Cronin and Zach Dubel Conflicting maritime boundary claims in the South China Sea are serious business involving potentially North Sea-scale offshore oil and gas deposits; fisheries that are…
Maritime Security
Stimson’s Southeast Asia maritime security research tracks, analyzes and provides informed insight on the maritime disputes of the South China Sea and rising tensions that characterize them, especially regarding fisheries, undersea oil…