Beginning in September of 2019, a massive number of wildfires have been burning across Australia. In this paper, RMC’s Intelligence & Analysis Division examines the status of these fires, as well as their impacts and causes.
Beginning in September of 2019, a massive number of wildfires have been burning across Australia. These wildfires, also referred to locally as bushfires, usually occur every summer. Lighting strikes and other natural causes are usually to blame for starting the fires.
Targeted, lethal strikes against terrorist leaders have become a common approach utilized by nations to combat the terror threat in the post-9/11 counterterrorism environment. Such strikes are commonly referred to as “decapitation strikes,” as they remove the “head” of an organization with the intention of degrading/dismantling the organization’s leadership structure (this paper will use the term throughout).
Foreign cultural centers are present throughout the U.S., hosting a variety of events and services to include the celebration of unique foreign holidays, language classes, cooking classes, musical/dance/arts events, and other forms of cultural exchange.
Extremist groups now have constant access to a global audience through relatively simple and free technology. Furthermore, depending on the platform, some messages may not be monitored, filtered, or potentially traced back to the initial source.
Per the Anti-Defamation League, white nationalism is defined as “a form of white supremacy that emphasizes defining a country or region by white racial identity and which seeks to promote the interests of whites exclusively, typically at the expense of people of other backgrounds.”
During 2018, California experienced a much larger outbreak of typhus than previous years.1 Typhus is a bacteria that causes a variety of symptoms, including aches, fever, nausea, vomiting, and if left untreated serious organ damage. Additionally, other illnesses have begun to appear in the same or similar areas, such as typhoid.
Measles is a highly contagious disease and can cause pneumonia, encephalitis (swelling of the brain) and death. It spreads through the air when an infected person coughs or sneezes. If not immunized, 9 out of 10 people exposed to the infection will contract it.
On 26 March 2019, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order instructing federal agencies to identify electromagnetic pulse (EMP) threats to the U.S. and develop strategies to ensure resilience from such threats.
White nationalist groups are majority white groups that generally believe their white identity should be the unifying factor against the perceived encroachment of minority groups in countries that encompass Western civilization.
