Written by: Harry Colvin Arsenal’s Willian de Borges is the latest footballer in England to receive racial abuse on social media, and he is not alone. Before him, there was Axel Tuanzebe. There was Anthony Martial. The list goes on and on. Disturbing messages aren’t limited to racial abuse either. Referee Mike Dean and his…
Category: Technology
Beyond the Wire and Into the Cyberspace: The DPRK’s Funding of Weapons of Mass Destruction
Written by: Cormac O’Harrow The United States has a material military force more powerful than any other in the world. We are equipped with more aircraft carriers, more tanks and more resources than any other state. But the nature of today’s evolving landscape has left us unprepared to defend tomorrow’s next great theater of combat….
Jihadi Online: The Pandemic and Lone-Wolf Terror Attacks
Written by: Nils Peterson Since the declaration of their caliphate in 2014, ISIS has lost the majority of territory it once controlled. However, as far back as March of 2020, several jihadi groups capitalized on scaled-down African governmental military operations due to the pandemic by launching new waves of suicide attacks attacks. In a worrying…
Public Health: What We Can Learn From the Defense Sector?
Written by: Aaditya Kumar The current COVID-19 pandemic has brought a global structural problem to the limelight: a lack of infrastructure to help the world deal with epidemics. If there was an unexpected terror attack or a sudden cause for warfare, many advanced countries throughout the world would be prepared as they already have a…
Why India is not the New Silicon Valley
Written by: Abby Ivancevich India’s recent economic growth has been historic and promising for developing countries around the world. However, in recent years, its lack of economic growth curtailed hopes of becoming a global technological power. India’s unique history of colonization and the caste system are sadly still part of the makeup of society and…
It’s a Tough Time to be a Startup
Written by: Dana Craig In 1932, Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave a speech dissecting the economic state of America. He declared that, “Area after area has been preempted altogether by the great corporations [and now] the small man starts under a handicap.” Roosevelt went on to predict with eerie accuracy a time in our history when…
Voting Technology: Compromising Security in the name of Modernity?
Written by: Molly Kehoe In the age of constant technological developments, digitized voting systems are a long time coming. This year two attempts to implement voting applications have failed. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political party, Likud, tried to put a voting app in place for the March 2nd election. In early February an independent…
Cyberspace: War’s New Face
Written by: Nils Peterson The face of warfare is constantly changing, and the new dimension of cyberspace has arrived. Recent developments in this field pose an increased risk to the security of the United States and her allies. Only by taking a harsh uncompromising stance regarding cyberattacks will the United States set the boundaries of…
China and the United States: The Race to 5G
Written by: Michael DeLeers It seems every week a new technological development is making headlines. With companies like Space X, Google, and Apple constantly driving innovation, it is not hard to believe. However, there are also a number of incredibly important technological developments happening under the radar. One of the most critical is 5G, “the…
Bitcoin: Currency of the Future?
Written by: Sourish Kundu For many people, cryptocurrencies remain a giant question mark. Comedian John Oliver described cryptocurrency as “everything you don’t know about currencies combined with everything you don’t know about computers.” However, just because it confuses the general public does not mean that investors are not ready to risk big bucks for it….
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