Forecasting an Imminent Israeli Strike on Iran

Multiple converging factors point toward a high probability of a renewed and more expansive Israeli strike against Iran within the coming months, most likely between September and October 7, 2025, with residual probability extending into late November or early December. Israel’s strategic imperatives, Iran’s defensive mobilization, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political calculus reinforce the […]

Forecasting an Imminent Israeli Strike on Iran was originally published on Global Security Review.

August 28, 2025
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Encryption Backdoor in Military/Police Radios

I wrote about this in 2023. Here’s the story:

Three Dutch security analysts discovered the vulnerabilities­—five in total—­in a European radio standard called TETRA (Terrestrial Trunked Radio), which is used in radios made by Motorola, Damm, Hytera, and others. The standard has been used in radios since the ’90s, but the flaws remained unknown because encryption algorithms used in TETRA were kept secret until now.

There’s new news:

In 2023, Carlo Meijer, Wouter Bokslag, and Jos Wetzels of security firm Midnight Blue, based in the Netherlands, discovered vulnerabilities in encryption algorithms that are part of a European radio standard created by ETSI called TETRA (Terrestrial Trunked Radio), which has been baked into radio systems made by Motorola, Damm, Sepura, and others since the ’90s. The flaws remained unknown publicly until their disclosure, because ETSI refused for decades to let anyone examine the proprietary algorithms…

August 26, 2025
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A New Model for Defense in Greece

OPINION — In a world where global power is no longer solely fought over through use of military might but won through wit, diplomacy, and innovation, Greece is recasting its story. Leading that transformation, at least in Economic Diplomacy, is Greece…

August 8, 2025
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