Alan W. Dowd is a Senior Fellow with the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes on the full range of topics relating to national defense, foreign policy and international security. Dowd’s commentaries and essays have appeared in Policy Review, Parameters, Military Officer, The American Legion Magazine, The Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, The Claremont Review of Books, World Politics Review, The Wall Street Journal Europe, The Jerusalem Post, The Financial Times Deutschland, The Washington Times, The Baltimore Sun, The Washington Examiner, The Detroit News, The Sacramento Bee, The Vancouver Sun, The National Post, The Landing Zone, Current, The World & I, The American Enterprise, Fraser Forum, American Outlook, The American and the online editions of Weekly Standard, National Review and American Interest. Beyond his work in opinion journalism, Dowd has served as an adjunct professor and university lecturer; congressional aide; and administrator, researcher and writer at leading think tanks, including the Hudson Institute, Sagamore Institute and Fraser Institute. An award-winning writer, Dowd has been interviewed by Fox News Channel, Cox News Service, The Washington Times, The National Post, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and numerous radio programs across North America. In addition, his work has been quoted by and/or reprinted in The Guardian, CBS News, BBC News and the Council on Foreign Relations. Dowd holds degrees from Butler University and Indiana University. Follow him at twitter.com/alanwdowd.

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Scott Tilley is a Senior Fellow at the American Security Council Foundation, where he writes the “Technical Power” column, focusing on the societal and national security implications of advanced technology in cybersecurity, space, and foreign relations.

He is an emeritus professor at the Florida Institute of Technology. Previously, he was with the University of California, Riverside, Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute, and IBM. His research and teaching were in the areas of computer science, software & systems engineering, educational technology, the design of communication, and business information systems.

He is president and founder of the Center for Technology & Society, president and co-founder of Big Data Florida, past president of INCOSE Space Coast, and a Space Coast Writers’ Guild Fellow.

He has authored over 150 academic papers and has published 28 books (technical and non-technical), most recently Systems Analysis & Design (Cengage, 2020), SPACE (Anthology Alliance, 2019), and Technical Justice (CTS Press, 2019). He wrote the “Technology Today” column for FLORIDA TODAY from 2010 to 2018.

He is a popular public speaker, having delivered numerous keynote presentations and “Tech Talks” for a general audience. Recent examples include the role of big data in the space program, a four-part series on machine learning, and a four-part series on fake news.

He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Victoria (1995).

Contact him at stilley@cts.today.

Report: Japan Looks to Join ‘Five Eyes’-Plus Intelligence Network

Friday, August 14, 2020

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Japan would like to help build a “Five Eyes”-plus intelligence-sharing alliance that would add it to Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the U.S. and the U.K, Defense Minister Taro Kono told the Nikkei in an interview published Friday.

If allowed, the framework would allow Japan to obtain key classified information at an early stage as it faces off against growing security threats in the South China Sea and beyond.

“These countries share the same values,” Kono said in the interview. “Japan can get closer [to the alliance] even to the extent of it being called the ‘Six Eyes’.”

The Five Eyes grouping is an intelligence-sharing alliance consisting of nations with deep historical and cultural ties anchored in their shared Anglo-Saxon heritage and use of the English language.

All are bound together as one via their multilateral UKUSA agreement. Their shared purposes cover cooperation in signals intelligence, analysis and sharing of information obtained through wiretapping networks for security purposes in pursuit of a free world.

As Breitbart London reported, this is not he first time a move to add to the existing Five Eyes network has been mooted, but it is the first time Japan has gone public with its own aspirations.

As the Nikkei interview outlines, Japan has been sharing information with the group despite not having formal membership.

Kono stressed expanding Japan’s links to it will enable the country to share information at an earlier stage and also acquire highly classified intelligence.

The Five Eyes is also characterized by strong diplomatic ties on top of their intelligence-sharing and they release joint statements on issues of shared concern. “It is highly important that [the member countries] keep step in diplomacy as well as on the economy,” Kono said.

Some members of the Five Eyes are also seeking closer cooperation with Japan to share confidential information in response to China’s growing military expansion. The U.K., for example, is wary of China amid mounting diplomatic tension over Hong Kong and the coronavirus pandemic and seeks to capitalize on information possessed by Japan.

Japan has been approached about sharing its information “on various occasions,” Kono revealed. “If approaches are made on a constant basis, then it may be called the ‘Six Eyes’,” he said.

But Kono said he doesn’t think Japan needs to go through certain procedures to join as an official member as the grouping is not an international organization. “We will just bring our chair to their table and tell them to count us in.”

Photo: KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty

Link: https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2020/08/14/report-japan-looks-to-join-five-eyes-plus-intelligence-network/

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