Since the beginning of the new era, China’s policy of fostering amity, sincerity, mutual benefit, and inclusiveness in neighborhood diplomacy has significantly advanced its relations with neighboring countries. China has reached a
The Current Crisis The recurrent spectre of a United States–led blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has once again propelled into sharp relief the fragile equilibrium between the freedom of navigation and
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“For those who believe, no proof is necessary; for those who do not believe, no proof is enough.” ~ Attributed to St. Thomas Aquinas The Revelation This essay is not meant to
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Homo Homini Sacra Res Est The Easter Sunday attacks of 21 April 2019 in Sri Lanka stand not merely as an egregious manifestation of coordinated terror, but as a profound desecration of
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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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