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Raw Materials for Potential Chemical Warfare Agents: Technical Assessment 1 (RUSI)

Understanding the raw materials and precursor chemicals required to support a chemical weapons (CW) programme is an important foundation stone in an assessment of...

The Time-Crunch for CyberEM Command’s Challenges (Robert Tollast – RUSI)

The forthcoming UK Cyber and Electromagnetic Command (CyberEM) outlined in the Strategic Defence Review could be a much-needed pillar of modernisation. It follows a...

Houthi arms dealers use Zuckerberg’s Meta, Elon Musk’s X to sell US guns: Report (Interesting Engineering)

A new report has revealed that arms dealers linked to Yemen’s Houthi rebels are openly using social media platforms like X (formerly Twitter) and...

Brief: Iranian Branch of PKK Faces Uncertain Future Amid Regime Crackdown (Jacob Zenn – The Jamestown Foundation)

The Islamic Republic of Iran is cracking down on the Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) in the aftermath of its war with Israel. The...

Brief: Attack on Damascus Church Exposes Fragile Protection for Syria’s Christians (Ethan Kaufman – The Jamestown Foundation)

On June 22, an Islamist terrorist entered the Mar Elias Greek Orthodox Church in Damascus mid-service, opening fire on the crowd before detonating his...

Indonesia’s Deradicalization Program Through the Lens of Umar Patek: From Bomb-Maker to Entrepreneur (Irma Rahim – The Jamestown Foundation)

Indonesia has enjoyed some success with deradicalizing high-level militants, including Umar Patek, a key bomb-maker involved with the deadly 2002 Bali bombings. This approach...

Military AI and the void of accountability (DigWatch)

In her blog post ‘Military AI: Operational dangers and the regulatory void,’ Julia Williams warns that AI is reshaping the battlefield, shifting from human-controlled...

Are Cyber Defenders Winning? (Jason Healey, Tarang Jain – Lawfare)

On June 6, President Trump signed an executive order to “reprioritize cybersecurity efforts to protect America,” outlining a rough agenda “to improve the security...

Russia-linked group spoofing European journalists to spread disinformation (Daryna Antoniuk – The Record)

A Kremlin-linked disinformation group has been impersonating real journalists and publishing fake articles on spoofed news websites to spread false narratives in France, Armenia,...

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