Intelligence

Smoke and mirrors: Building EU resilience against manipulation through cognitive security (Beatrice Catena, Ondrej Ditrych, Nad’a Kovalčíková – European Union Institute for Security Studies)

Recent violations of the airspaces of Poland, Romania and Estonia illustrate how Russia uses psychological operations to distort perceptions and manipulate behaviour – effectively...

How Does Hybrid Warfare Impact the Global Supply Chain? (The Soufan Center)

In early September, Poland closed its eastern border following Russian-Belarusian wargames that sent at least 19 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) into Polish airspace, including...

UK National Security Advantage from Disruptive Technologies (Pia Hüsch and Natasha Buckley – RUSI)

The paper explores how the UK can leverage science, technology, and innovation (ST&I) policy to secure strategic advantage in national security amidst global competition....

Jaguar Land Rover cyberattack shows that governments must provide post-incident support (Jason R.C. Nurse, Tom Johansmeyer and Gareth Mott – RUSI)

As the JLR case has demonstrated, governments must offer support in the wake of major cyber incidents. There are strong rational and moral cases...

Signals in the Swarm: The Data Behind China’s Maritime Gray Zone Campaign Near Taiwan (Jose M. Macias III and Benjamin Jensen – CSIS)

Gray zone activity is a constant in modern great power competition. Authoritarian states use indirect ways and means that fall beneath the threshold of...

Ukraine’s defense tech sector must guard against innovation drain (Andriy Dovbenko – Atlantic Council)

On the outskirts of Kharkiv in northeastern Ukraine, Ukrainian electronic warfare teams are deploying home-grown systems that automatically detect and suppress Russian drones. Along...

Beyond the Drones: Confronting Russia’s Expanding Hybrid War on Europe (The Soufan Center)

Over the course of the past month, unidentified drones — widely believed to be Russian — have menaced Europe, intruding into foreign airspace and...

Kremlin Fears That Russian ‘War Correspondents’ Could Prototype Civil Society (Kassie Corelli – The Jamestown Foundation)

The September 7 Kremlin-backed religious-nationalist procession in Moscow only drew 40,000 people, supporting the argument that right-wing activists remain a marginal force and do...

Manchester Synagogue Attack on Yom Kippur Rattles the United Kingdom (The Soufan Center)

A vehicle ramming and stabbing attack outside of a synagogue in Manchester, England, killed two and injured several others, with authorities calling the attack...

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