Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has issued an unusually direct appeal to the American public, academics, students and journalists, declaring that Iran has prevailed in the seven-month war with the United
The Facts The tragedy of Air Canada Express Flight 8646 collision stands not merely as an isolated aberration in the annals of aviation mishaps, but as a profound epistemic rupture—an event that
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“It’s only appropriate that people who are the beneficiaries of the Strait will help to make sure that nothing bad happens there.” ~ President Donald Trump The Overview The contemporary tensions in
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In the contemporary architecture of aviation security, artificial intelligence assumes an ever more prominent role, not as a panacea but as an evolutionary instrument of operational efficiency, predictive insight and human augmentation.
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Some weeks ago, I published an article in this journal on Metacognition and AI – How to Improve Managerial Competence (https://slguardian.org/metacognition-and-ai/). Broadly speaking, metacognition is “thinking about thinking” or fact checking and prudent judgement.
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“There is no limit to what we, as women, can accomplish.” – Michelle Obama. Background The eighth day of March has, in contemporary global consciousness, come to represent far more than a
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The Crisis The recent escalation of hostilities between Iran, the United States, and Israel has precipitated a profound disruption across the global civil aviation landscape, demonstrating with sobering clarity the fragility of
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“Nuclear power is one hell of a way to boil water.” – Albert Einstein Contrarian Views The temporal dissonance that surrounded Epic Fury—the ferocious and decapitating strikes reportedly directed at the apex of
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“Without political leadership and the willingness to make difficult decisions, NATO will crumble…There are no risk free operations in a war…And remember, the biggest cost and the greatest will be if Russia
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“Religions had learned long ago that a human mind facing the terrifying prospect of eternal nothingness would believe almost anything. Timor mortis est pater religionis, Langdon mused, recalling the ancient saying made
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In the deep tapestry of human endeavor, aviation occupies a singular place: it is not merely the art of carrying people and goods across the skies, but an archetype of systemic connectedness.
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Ceylon is a beautiful, but unhappy land ~ D.N. Pritt Independence is never a moment; it is a continuum. It is not a flag raised at dawn, nor a constitution promulgated in
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If the United Nations is to survive, those who represent it must bolster it; those who advocate it must submit to it; and those who believe in it must fight for it.
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All human life can be found in an airport. ~ David Walliams Air Chief Marshal Harsha Abeywickrama, who served concurrently as Chairman of Airport and Aviation Services (Sri Lanka) Limited and as
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The nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy…Barack Obama The International Day of Clean Energy, observed on 26 January pursuant to General Assembly
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The USA is the economic engine on the planet. And when America booms, the entire world booms. … You all follow us down and you follow us up. ~ President Donald Trump,
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