Private military organizations are a new and important feature of the international landscape. They offer control of potential massive violence to the highest bidder with very limited accountability. This book offers critical insights into both the phenomenon and the challenges of and potential for regulation.
Private military organizations are a new and important feature of the international landscape. They offer control of potential massive violence to the...
As governmental and non-governmental operations become progressively supported by vast automated systems and electronic data flows, attacks of government information infrastructure, operations and processes pose a serious threat to economic and military interests. In 2007 Estonia suffered a month long cyber assault to its digital infrastructure, described in cyberspace as Web War I . In 2010, a worm Stuxnet was identified as supervisory control and data acquisition systems at Iran s uranium enrichment plant, presumably in an attempt to set back Iran s nuclear programme. The dependence upon...
As governmental and non-governmental operations become progressively supported by vast automated systems and electronic data flows, attacks of gove...