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Aug 31, 2026Open Access
This paper argues that heavy reliance on military counterterrorism since 9/11 can weaken trust, disrupt local social order, and push affected communities toward noncooperation or support for armed groups. It uses a qualitative, conceptual discussion supported by case examples, policy documents, and secondary literature. Its main conclusion is that counterterrorism should be judged less by enemy attrition and more by whether it builds legitimacy, community trust, and resilience.
Sep 16, 2025Open Access
The future battlefield under high-tech conditions features complex environments, high personnel concentration, and highly lethal weaponry. These factors lead to mass casualties presenting with diverse and severe injuries that are difficult to manage. Continuously improving battlefield casualty care theories, constructing a Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) system suited to our military, refining forward-deployed treatment techniques, and reducing the combat casualty mortality rate are pressin...
May 30, 2024Open Access
As an indispensable pillar of modern national defence, high-tech weapons to some extent represent the level of development of human civilisation, which is of vital importance in protecting national security, safeguarding national interests and even maintaining world peace and development. Purpose: This paper elaborates and comprehensively explores the role of high-tech weapons in modern national defence, including enhancing national military strength, improving international status, fighting ter...
Oct 12, 2021Open Access
This article evaluates to what degree the relationship between Pakistan and militant groups, primarily Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operating within its border, has influenced Islamabad’s counterinsurgency approach. The article succinctly describes the process that led to the formation of Pakistan and its ongoing fight with India since then over Jammu and Kashmir. It further discusses India’s overall strategic recourses in the Disputed Territory that have driven it to interpose in the internal affairs ...
Jun 15, 2021Open Access
Since the discovery and commencement of oil production in 1956 in the Niger Delta, the region has worsened in terms of security, poverty, and environmental pollution. The “Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND)” is among the insurgent groups that continue to cause havoc in the region. The Delta Niger area is infested with corruption, economic inequalities, lack of opportunities, political repression, nepotism, and so on. All these problems must be addressed equitably and promptl...
Jun 28, 2019Open Access
This paper examines the integration of armed groups into security sector of a country, especially the military, as an approach to peace building. It takes an overview of such approaches in South Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Central African Republic (CAR). The paper argues that while such an approach is good for peace’s sake, it usually fails to attain peace in the long term due to its rushed conceptualization ...
Oct 31, 2016Open Access
This article analyses the situation since the
annexation of Krim by current leadership in Kremlin. It presents some possible
scenarios of further development of Russia-Ukraine relations. The paper also analyses contemporary Russian foreign
strategy towards the World of the Western Liberal Democracies.
Aug 19, 2016Open Access
The collapse of Somali Government in the early 1990s left the state in
the hands of predatory war lords who wrecked the country into havoc. The
country has remained in a state of violent conflict for nearly over two decades.
Intervention of United Nations Operations in Somalia failed to meet its
objectives leaving the vulnerable population at the mercy of warlords when it
finally withdrew its troops from the war torn nation. Despi ...
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