EDITORIAL

Shaul Shay
(Senior research fellow at the International Institute for Counterterrorism (ICT) at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya and former deputy head of Israel’s National Security Council)

Copyright: @ 2021 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) Publication date: 19 May 2021

Note: The article reflects the opinion of the author and not necessarily the views of the Research Institute for European and American Studies (RIEAS)

The IDF has struck and severely damaged the Hamas’ so-called “Metro” underground city in one of its most powerful strikes in the Gaza Strip in operation "Guardian of the Walls".

The “Metro” had been built in the years after operation "Protective Edge" in 2014. It was a network of dozens of kilometers of tunnels that provided the Hamas safety from Israeli aerial incursions.

According to the Israeli military, 160 aircraft struck more than 150 underground targets in the northern Gaza Strip, centered on Beit Lahiya, with the goal of severely damaging the “Metro.” ... Read more

Copyright: @ 2021 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) - Posted on 9 May 2021.

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John M Nomikos
(RIEAS Director)

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Posted at RIEAS web site (www.rieas.gr) on 27 April 2021

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Intelligence Studies, as a distinct field, is a recent development going back to the first tentative steps of the 1950’s as the Cold War took hold of superpower strategies. Nowadays, intelligence is no longer the sole domain of the state’s security apparatus. Research think-tanks, universities, international organizations, law enforcement agencies, and private security companies deal with the fluidity and complexity of intelligence and security threats. ...Read more

Copyright: @ 2021 Research Institute for European and American Studies (www.rieas.gr) - Posted on 23 April 2021.

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John M. Nomikos, RIEAS director, interviewed Mr. Danny Yatom, former head of the Israeli Intelligence Service (1996-1998), MOSSAD. Read more

Greek FM Dendias drops a mini bomb smack in the middle of Ankara

Copyright: @ 2021 https://theperiscope.substack.com/p/surprising-day-in-the-greek-turkish
Posted at RIEAS web site (www.rieas.gr) on 18 April 2021.
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The tense history of Greek-Turkish relations took an abrupt turn for the worse during a televised news conference involving the Greek and Turkish FMs following their meeting in Ankara on April 15, 2021.

With Turkish FM Mevlut Cavusoglu listening in surprised disbelief, his Greek counterpart, Nikos Dendias, delivered a blow-by-blow list of Greek grievances, related to Turkey’s illegal and provocative maneuvers in the Aegean coupled with routine threats of war against her neighbor and NATO “ally.”

Addressing his Turkish counterpart as his “dear friend Mevlut,” Dendias coolly enumerated Turkey’s violations of international maritime law, her long history of warlike provocations in the Aegean, her using illegal immigration floods to blackmail Greece, and her standing threat of declaring war if Hellas chooses to extend its territorial waters from 6 to 12 miles, as it is her right under the 1982 UNCLOS, which Turkey refuses to sign.... Read more