Intelligence

China’s AI use for cyber espionage shifts cyber focus from detection to trust (Gil Baram – ASPI The Strategist)

The question facing security and technology leaders is no longer whether adversaries will deploy AI agents against their environment. Now, those leaders must ask...

The Changing Character of Terrorism and U.S. Counterterrorism (Don Rassler, Kristina Hummel, Brian Dodwell, Ned Curry – Combating Terrorism Center at West Point)

The competition between terror movements and counterterrorism forces is an interactive and iterative game, as the actions taken by one side are designed to...

The Best of Times, the Worst of Times: The Repressed Islamic State Affiliates (Daniel Milton – Combating Terrorism Center at West Point)

It has been more than 10 years since Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi ascended the pulpit in the al-Nuri mosque to announce that the group known...

Burden-Sharing with Non-Traditional Counterterrorism Partners (Iselin Brady, Daniel Byman – Combating Terrorism Center at West Point)

The United States works with an array of counterterrorism partners in efforts to fight global jihadi groups such as al-Qa`ida and the Islamic State....

Foreign Terrorist Fighters: A Threat in Stasis (Kim Cragin – Combating Terrorism Center at West Point)

This article examines the historical trajectory of “foreign terrorist fighters” associated with the Islamic State and its antecedents, al-Qa`ida and the Arab Afghans. The...

The Financial Dimension of EU Internal Security Threats (Tom Keatinge and Kinga Redlowska – RUSI)

In April 2025, the EU published its updated internal security strategy, ProtectEU, underlining the reality that the lives of European citizens ‘have become less...

Trump’s Strategy Against Venezuelan Gangs is Self-Defeating (Gil Guerra and Emma Isabella Sage – RUSI)

After a series of strikes on nonmilitary vessels in international waters, the Pentagon informed Congress it considers suspected members of Venezuelan gangs to be...

The Quad’s Calibrated Maritime Security Agenda (Sayantan Haldar – Observer Research Foundation)

The Quad has been repeatedly criticised for supposedly lacking a maritime security agenda. These views, however, stem from a narrow interpretation of ‘maritime security’—one...

The digital battlefield around Australia’s South China Sea patrols (Fitriani and Astrid Young – ASPI The Strategist)

When an Australian patrol aircraft met a Chinese jet over the South China Sea last month, the encounter quickly moved beyond airspace to digital...

Latest articles