Trump Unmasked www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/o...

The Kremlin Files: Russia, the Modern Surveillance State www.thecipherbrief.com/russia-surve...

The U.S. military plans obsessively for enemy moves. Who checks whether its own plans actually work?

Interested in undertaking an ONLINE Postgraduate Certificate or a Masters by Research in Covert Action, HUMINT and the Psychology of Intelligence Elicitation? Then why not consider studying with BUCSIS. (Jan 26 and Sept 26 entry) To view programmes details go www.buckingham.ac.uk/courses/rese...

As West Faces Russian Sabotage, U.K. Blames Putin for 2018 Poisoning Death www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/w...

The ‘Useful Idiots’ From America Whom Putin Is Playing Like a Flute www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/o...

The Chinese Communist Party fuses military and civilian cyber capabilities with coercive influence over private firms to embed vulnerabilities, preposition access, and compromise foreign technological infrastructure x.com/780thc/statu...

“Propaganda operations in the Cold War were designed to undermine authority, chip away at orthodox ideas, and encourage questioning" @rorycormac.bsky.social reveals to @telegraphnews.bsky.social how the CIA once tried to recruit Sir Winston Churchill 🔗➡️ tinyurl.com/mvp47n4h Image cc: The Telegraph

🔍 Spotlight on “Strategic Vandalism” See our new piece with @paulineblistene.bsky.social on the recent “Red Hands” trial in Paris, which showed how Moscow instrumentalises vandalism as a calculated instrument of influence. 📝 See full article & more about "strategic vandalism" at #KCSIInsights.

F.B.I. Director Is Said to Have Made a Pledge to Head of MI5, Then Broken It www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...

'The UK should probably reconsider intelligence-sharing arrangements on some sensitive issues, where there is little chance of influencing the US position, but considerable risks of exposure of sourcing' writes Matthew Savill in the latest RUSI Commentary.

🚨 What happens to a generation of journalists raised under Putin? 🎧 Join us for the latest @warstudieskcl.bsky.social podcast episode, where veteran journalists @andreisoldatov.bsky.social & I. Borogan discuss Our Dear Friends in Moscow - part memoir in exile, part anatomy of Putin’s secret state 👇

Interested in undertaking an ONLINE Postgraduate Certificate or a Masters by Research in Covert Action, HUMINT and the Psychology of Intelligence Elicitation? Then why not consider studying with BUCSIS. (Jan 25 and Sept 25 entry) To view programmes details go via www.buckingham.ac.uk/courses/rese...

BUCSIS organised student visit to the National Archives exploring the declassified files on the Portland spy ring and the Cambridge spy ring. Followed by a tour of the excellent MI5 exhibition

Backlash grows after Zelensky strips anti-corruption bodies of independence

Who were the #ColdWarJackals? Why were they #watched? What can today’s professionals learn from these uneasy covert alliances? 🎙️ Tune in as Thea Gioe, former USG intel practitioner & #KCSI Visiting Fellow, and I explore these questions in the latest #WarStudiesPODCAST episode. 👉 shorturl.at/ipOUl

Another superb piece by Gill - how many intelligence historians could follow their paper at a conference with a turn?

Well i never knew that Blair (and Putin) were one-time readers of the President’s Daily Brief Thanks @davidpriess.bsky.social! engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-u...

Poland has accused Russian intelligence services of orchestrating a massive fire that nearly completely destroyed a shopping centre in the capital Warsaw last year.

It’s a constant, and subversive and relentless drip drip pervasiveness… but for those specifically targeted it must be terrifying www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Next up we have Jeff Rogg (@jrogg.bsky.social) with an insightful review of George and Levine's The CIA Intelligence Analyst: Views from the Inside www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Most accessible overview of what I do: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5d8b79...

No hint of compromise in today’s Russian press. On the prospects for peace in Ukraine, one paper declares: “Trump is in a hurry…Russia is in no hurry for a deal.” Another paper says Vladimir Putin’s demands “have barely changed” from the ones he issued last June. #ReadingRussia

Romanian man arrested after DHL warehouse fire caused by suspected Russian device. #covertaction

An informant reporting Russian sabotage, 1920s: “I have refrained from particularising and offering proof of my statements as it is a waste of time and effort. I will point out that the situation was exactly foretold years ago and the warnings ignored”

📖 Congratulations to @nottspolitics.bsky.social' Dr Dan Lomas @sandbaggerone.bsky.social on the publication of his new co-edited book 'Intelligence, Security and the State: Reviewing the British Intelligence Community' Read more here 👉 tinyurl.com/bddnkdas @uonresearch.bsky.social

We @nottspolitics.bsky.social are hiring! We are seeking to appoint a Teaching Associate in International Relations (with a focus on security studies). This full-time, fixed-term post is available from 1 September 2025 until 30 June 2026.

Textbook example of the influence/psychological dimensions of sabotage. Crying sabotage - or massive cyber attack - induces more friction and facilitates the instigator’s dirty work!

If any NSC officials want to add me to top secret group chats, rest assured I’d have to compete ethics forms, data management plans and trusted research approval before I could do anything with it. Ahhh academia 😉

We are hiring! @nottspolitics.bsky.social are seeking to appoint a Teaching Associate in Political Science (with a focus on quantitative methods). This full-time, fixed-term post is available from 1 September 2025 until 30 June 2027. 1/2

Stunning Signal leak reveals depths of Trump administration’s loathing of Europe

New peer reviewed journal for intelligence research now out. The Journal of Applied Operational Intelligence. All articles are free to access - no fees for authors. www.ubplj.org/index.php/jaoi

New peer reviewed journal for intelligence research now out. The Journal of Applied Operational Intelligence. All articles are free to access - no fees for authors. www.ubplj.org/index.php/jaoi

New journal: The Journal of Applied Operational Intelligence is now out. Nine peer-reviewed articles are free to access via www.ubplj.org/index.php/jaoi Thank you to i2 for its kind sponsorship that ensures free access to readers👏👏

Great day today with Sir John Sawers, our @nottspolitics.bsky.social hon prof. - one-2-one sessions with PhD researchers - roundtable with staff - lecture and Q&A with students A great opportunity for all and fantastic to see so many so engaged! Proud of the School 😃

Will Russia agree to join the one month truce proposed by the US and agreed by Ukraine. In this post I explore the dilemma Putin now faces as this risks a frozen conflict without his aims achieved. (£/free trial). open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/p...?

Even if Europe’s leaders can unify to shore up collective defence, it is far from clear whether that will be enough to deter an aggressive, badly mauled Russia.

Interesting column from a former foreign secretary (not as Zelensky-hostile as the headline suggests) www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

New open access article published: "Redefining vigilance: reevaluating the meaning of early warning in Israel’s security doctrine and the October 7 attack" by Gil Baram & Isaac Ben Israel in the journal Intelligence and National Security, here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

China-linked hackers target European healthcare orgs in suspected espionage campaign therecord.media/china-linked...

Erm, I fully respect Dominic Grieve's period as ISC chair, but the idea that the UK should rip up intelligence sharing with the US is absolutely crazy, and overlooks the complexity of international intelligence liason - or the states we have/do share intelligence with.