White Intelligence and Counter-Intelligence during the Russian Civil War

The Great White Train: typhus, sanitation, and U.S. International Development during the Russian Civil War.

In January 2009, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton stood before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during her confirmation hearing for the post of Secretary of State. Time and again, Clinton affirmed her belief that U.S. national security depends on balancing three ‘D’s: Diplomacy, Development, and Defense. ‘In order to protect and defend the United States of America, to advance our interests,...

Understanding Civil War Violence through Military Intelligence: Mining Civilian Targeting Records from the Vietnam War

Military intelligence is underutilized in the study of civil war violence. Declassified records are hard to acquire and difficult to explore with the standard econometrics toolbox. I investigate a contemporary government database of civilians targeted during the Vietnam War. The data are detailed, with up to 45 attributes recorded for 73,712 individual civilian suspects. I employ an unsupervise...

Urbanization and Deurbanization in the Russian Revolution and Civil War

Counter Intelligence and the Semantic Web

It is our hypothesis that appropriate use of semantics, and particularly Semantic Web technologies, can have a significant impact on improving the speed of intelligence processing and sharing of intelligence process. For example, analysts within the intelligence community are often tasked as small teams in ad hoc ways to deal with emerging threats (this is sometimes referred to as “surge proces...

Artificial Intelligence in Civil Engineering

Artificial intelligence is a branch of computer science, involved in the research, design, and application of intelligent computer. Traditional methods for modeling and optimizing complex structure systems require huge amounts of computing resources, and artificial-intelligence-based solutions can often provide valuable alternatives for efficiently solving problems in the civil engineering. Thi...