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China Doesn't Get It

The Rand Blog

In fact, the opposite is true, given that China's behavior is backfiring in spectacular fashion. Beijing likely believes it is in its interest to signal strength and show no intention of conceding on its claims or positions. But that does not mean that will work to further China's interests.

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Are Military Coups Back in Style in Africa?

The Rand Blog

On a continent that was recently lauded for its democratic advancement, this backsliding suggests the military coup may be dangerously back in fashion. There have been five coups in sub-Saharan Africa since August 2020. Why are more coups happening now?

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Disaster Risk Reduction is not a Paradigm

Emergency Planning

susceptible t o fads and fashions instead of true paradigms? By contrast, a fad or fashion involves imitation rather than strictly parallel endeavour (a fad is a more pejorative version of a fashion). Fads and fashions are far too imitative to be efficient, effective ways of addressing our problems.

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BCAW : Supply Chain : What can organisations do to attempt to protect themselves from supply chain risks?

Plan B Consulting

No fancy analytics, no Artificial Intelligence but good old-fashioned relationship building. Finally, there is the gold fashioned risk assessment. Simple, easy but a highly successful, investment free option. Seems very old school but sometimes the old ways are the best.

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New in Purity//FA 6.4.9: Cloud Archival Option, Wasabi Support, and More

Pure Storage

Policies make this possible in a streamlined fashion, and at scale, otherwise, feature assignment is manual with no simple way to ensure configuration drift does not occur. Customers running virtualized workloads continue to want to control all of FlashArray’s feature use and compliance via policy-driven interfaces.

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Reflections on the Turkish-Syrian Earthquakes of 6th February 2023: Building Collapse and its Consequences

Emergency Planning

It is a mixture of simple errors, lax procedures, ignorance, deliberate evasion, indifference to public safety, untenable architectural fashions, corruption and failure to enforce the codes. The tragedy lies in their non-observance and the paucity of retrofitting. It is these that collapse.

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Writing Incident Scenarios: An Operational Resilience Trend Returns

Plan B Consulting

The return of the mullet What was once fashionable always tends to come back into fashion at some point. Fashion from my youth has come round again, as we are seeing the return of shoulder pads, big hair and the mullet. Flared trousers seem to come and go quite regularly.