Cryptography, Information Operations and the Industrial Base: A Policy Dilemma.

As the incumbent Turkish administration strives to pursue more aspiring goals in foreign affairs, Turkey’s military policy is fast developing in line with this vision. The nation’s defense technological and industrial base can now produce various conventional weaponry. Of these, without a doubt, Turkey’s drone warfare assets have garnered the utmost attention among the international strategic community. In tandem, the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) have gradually gained an expeditionary posture with forward deployments across a broad axis, ranging from the Horn of Africa to the Gulf and the Mediterranean. Meanwhile, the military’s doctrinal order of battle has been transforming to address the unfolding hybrid warfare challenges in Ankara’s hinterland. Turkey’s proxy warfare capabilities have also registered an uptrend in this respect. Nevertheless, Ankara will have to deal with certain limitations in key segments, particularly 5th generation aircraft and strategic weapon systems which, together, represent a severe intra-war deterrence gap in Turkey’s defense posture. The Turkish administration will have to address this specific shortfall given the problematic threat landscape at the nation’s Middle Eastern doorstep. This study covers two interrelated strategic topics regarding Turkey’s national military capacity in the 21st century: its defense technological and industrial base (DTIB) and its military policy, both currently characterized by a burgeoning assertiveness.

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M. A. Ayuh. Made in Jamaica: The Development of Manufacturing Sector. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 1981. xxii+128 pp.

The Pakistan Development Review ◽

10.30541/v25i1pp.93-95 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 25 (1) ◽

pp. 93-95

Author(s):

Najam-us- Saqib

Keyword(s):

Manufacturing Industry ◽

Manufacturing Sector ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Industrial Base ◽

Johns Hopkins University ◽

Key Characteristics ◽

The World ◽

Caribbean Country ◽

Bauxite Ore ◽

Made In

Jamaica, known in the world for her rich deposits of bauxite ore, is a small Caribbean country with an area of 10991 square kilometers and a population of just over two million individuals. This beautifu11and, which was described by Columbus as "The fairest isle that eyes have beheld" has developed a remarkably diversified manufacturing sector starting from a modest industrial base. Jamaica's manufacturing industry enjoyed a respectable growth rate of about 6 percent per annum during the good old days of the euphoric '50s and '60s. However, those bright sunny days ''when to live was bliss" were followed by the chilling winter of much subdued progress. The rise and fall of growth have aroused considerable interest among economists and policy• makers. The book under review probes the causes of this behaviour by analysing key characteristics of Jamaican manufacturing sector and tracing its path of evolution.

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The rainbow in the dark: Assessing a century of British military Information Operations

Defence Strategic Communications ◽

10.30966/2018.riga.1.3 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 41-66

Author(s):

Lee Richards

Keyword(s):

British Military ◽

Information Operations

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THE NEW SECURITY CHALLENGES OF INFORMATION WAR

Knowledge International Journal ◽

10.35120/kij28061855o ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 28 (6) ◽

pp. 1855-1864

Author(s):

Olga Zoric ◽

Katarina Jonev ◽

Ivan Rancic

Keyword(s):

Information Security ◽

United States Of America ◽

The United States ◽

Practical Aspect ◽

Information Warfare ◽

Operational Environment ◽

Security Challenges ◽

Information Operations ◽

The Russian Federation ◽

The Republic

The author starts from the informational dimension of the operational environment in a strategic reality and deal with the problem of defining informational power from the theoretical and practical aspect of information warfare.The deliberations in the work are aimed to initiate a procedure for auditing of the security documents in order to create a legal basis for the operationalization of the content of information security, as one of the aspects of integral security of the Republic of Serbia. The paper deals with the conceptual determinations and importance of information, information warfare and information operations, as well as the content of information warfare, pointing out the strategic and doctrinal definitions of the information warfare of the United States of America, the Russian Federation and the Republic of Serbia. It is necessary to accurately and objectively observe world achievements in the field of national security and the relation of the most powerful world powers to the problem of information warfare. Based on a comparative analysis of world trends and the state of the theoretical and practical aspects of information security of the Republic of Serbia, the focus is on work, where measures are proposed to improve the security function in the fourth unit of work.

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