The authors concentrate on the cooperation of organisations - from government and the market sector - to address cyber threats. They discern three network action models that respectively deal with organisations' routine wrestling to fight every day's attacks on digital systems, a possible disruption …

Binnen het militaire domein houdt men ten aanzien van het bewerkstelligen van veiliger werken veelal vast aan klassieke benaderingswijzen. Deze richten zich voornamelijk op het verhogen van de individuele kwaliteit en de betrouwbaarheid van afzonderlijke onderdelen. Veiligheidsanalyses in dit soort …

Cyber war is the result of complex technologies that not many people really comprehend. However, insight into this complexity is needed to analyse the vulnerability or the opposite -the robustness and resilience- of the digital networks that are targeted by cyberthreats. Based on mathematical game theory, …

Assessing the effectiveness and progress of efforts to ‘build states in order to build peace’ (Call and Wyeth, 2008) is inevitable for several reasons. Politicians want to know what is being achieved with the resources that they have allocated to the state building endeavours abroad. They want to judge …

Reflection on the role of social media in social movements, conflicts in civil society and military operations. While acknowleging the use of the digital media as a form of cyber warfare by groups such as Al Qaeda and the Taliban to good effect against ISAF in Afghanistan, the authors suggest that in …

Unmanned aerial systems (UASs) in general and UAS safety in particular have so far received little attention in the science, technology and society (STS) literature. This paper therefore reports on several (military) cases of this relatively new technology, focusing specifically on issues of safety. …

In this article an imaginary military Headquarters is the central objects of analysis. Military HQs are high on the target lists of terrorists and adversaries in general. The amount of digital information exchange in such strategic settings is gigantic. The authors focus on the entry gates of such an …

Begin september was ik als ‘extern deskundige’ aanwezig bij de afstudeerpresentatie van een bachelor student Human Resource Management. De student heeft afgelopen jaar bij Defensie onderzocht hoe deze organisatie medewerkers begeleidt, van wie de functie vervalt. Het gaat daarbij in het kader van de …

In March 2012, an atrocity was committed in two villages in the Kandahar Province of Afghanistan. One night, an American soldier entered three houses and killed sixteen people, including women and children. In response to this violent outburst of one of its soldiers, the United States (US) authorities …

Arbeidsongevallen zijn vaak te wijten aan menselijk gedrag, hoe mensen met elkaar omgaan en hoe ze met risico’s en richtlijnen omgaan. Bewust bezig zijn met veiligheid is een noodzakelijke voorwaarde voor veiligheid op de werkvloer. Door middel van cursussen, trainingen en ‘risk assessment’ kan een beter …