New US military investments at Air Base 71 in Campia Turzii, Romania

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Romanian and U.S. officials joined together at Air Base 71 today to celebrate the completion of three new facilities intended to increase the capacity of the Romanian Air Force base here to host operations in support of regional security. The three projects are part of a larger, more than $100 million construction program at the base funded through the United States’ European Deterrence Initiative. Air Base 71 Commander, Romanian Air Force Brig. Gen. Micloş Cătălin-Eugen noted that though he only … Read More

A New Field of Study in the Magazine: Intelligence for Business Environment

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The concept of intelligence encompasses diverse meanings, such as mental ability, general cognitive notion (IQ), knowledge, information gathering activity, specialized information gathering agencies, business intelligence (BI), competitive intelligence (CI), artificial intelligence (AI), open-source intelligence (OSINT), information technology applications (SIGINT, AGI), and counterintelligence measures.

From this wide array of possibilities, I believe in the opportunity to add a new area of discussion, namely Competitive Intelligence, to those already established in the “Intelligence Info” magazine. This is because information plays a crucial role in business and for the activities of companies, and in a broader context, for enhancing the competitiveness of any type of organization.

How should intelligence analysis be utilized to counter cognitive warfare?

I wanted to underline in this paper how intelligence analysis needs to adapt to deal with a brand-new concept: cognitive warfare. Intelligence analysts need to put much more effort into understanding and appreciating the dangers that such a concept entails. This additional dimension must be taken into account in any risk assessment in the area of security studies. The target of the operations of this type of war is human rationality itself. In a study developed by Johns Hopkins University pentryu NATO, researchers (Kathy Cao, Sean Glaister, Adriana Pena, Danbi Rhee, William Rong, Alexander Rovalino) best defined the nature of cognitive warfare: ”In cognitive warfare, the human mind becomes the field of battle

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