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Though layoffs had happened in the company before, Foti-Landis said his team was already lean, so losing his security analyst job came as a “total surprise.”

Meanwhile, security analyst Hans Tino Hansen stands in front of a huge screen in what he calls his "ops room", at his Copenhagen headquarters.

The plan would cost about $2.5 trillion dollars, national security analyst Joseph Cirincione estimated.

Ghana-based security analyst Adib Saani expressed concern about the growing insurgency in West Africa, and said he did not see a military solution to it.

“The timing is no coincidence,” said Eduardo Guerrero, a security analyst in Mexico City.