Intelligence

Lethal Autonomous Weapons and the ‘Right for Machine Hesitation’ (Virgílio Almeida, Ricardo Fabrino Mendonça, Fernando Filgueiras – Tech Policy Press)

There is little doubt today that the world is going through a period of profound instability and war-related risks. While the open armed conflicts...

India’s Data Protection Act: A Shield for Privacy or a Tool for State Surveillance? (Medha Garg – Tech Policy Press)

India, hailed as the "world's largest democracy," is now witnessing a steady erosion of its democratic values. Colonial-era laws such as sedition and the...

Ubiquitous Technical Surveillance Demands Broader Data Protections (Justin Sherman – Lawfare)

On June 26, the Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) published a partially redacted report detailing the FBI’s efforts to mitigate...

Mapping a decade’s worth of hybrid threats targeting South Korea (Fitriani, Shelly Shih and Alice Wai – The Strategist)

While Australia is coming to terms with the realities of hybrid threats, South Korea has long been on the front line. Reflecting its formal...

What to Make of Macron’s Recent Defence Spending Commitments? (Amy Greene – RUSI)

On 13 July, 2025, in his annual address to French armed forces, President Emmanuel Macron announced increases in defence spending to take place over...

UK–France defence: a statement of entente for wider European security? (Nick Childs – IISS)

The United Kingdom and France have revamped and strengthened their nuclear and conventional defence cooperation through the Lancaster House 2.0 and Northwood declarations. To...

Taiwan Bounty: PRC Cross-Agency Operations Target Taiwanese Military Personnel (Sze-Fung Lee – The Jamestown Foundation)

For the first time, public security authorities in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) are targeting Taiwanese military personnel and so-called “Taiwan independence” (台独)...

Smart Device Empire: Beijing’s Expansion Through Everyday Digital Infrastructure (Matthew Johnson – The Jamestown Foundation)

The PRC is exporting an integrated system of smart devices, data infrastructure, and governance standards. Through industrial policy, state-backed overproduction, and strategic data asymmetry,...

PLA Navy Shifts Training Focus from Near-Shore to Blue-Water Operations (Yu-cheng Chen, K. Tristan Tang – The Jamestown Foundation)

In June 2025, the Liaoning and Shandong carrier strike groups conducted operations in the Western Pacific, achieving three major milestones with significant strategic implications...

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