🚨Publication alert: Our KCSI members, Huw Dylan and Elena Grossfeld (@kloosha.bsky.social) have published an #openaccess article. 'Unveiling Russian intelligence failures in the Ukraine conflict: a strategic culture perspective' @warstudieskcl.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/0268...

New addition Journal article: Unveiling Russian intelligence failures in the Ukraine conflict: a strategic culture perspective by Huw Dylan, Elena Grossfeld (published 22-08-2025) https://doi.org/10.1080/02684527.2025.2544460

Our article w/Huw Dylan Unveiling Russian Intelligence Failures in the Ukraine Conflict: A Strategic Culture Perspective is out, demonstrating how Russian intelligence’s strategic culture shaped its key failures in 2022. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @kcsi.uk @warstudieskcl.bsky.social

Another super article from Huw Dylan and @kloosha.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

IISS: 'The Scale of Russian Sabotage Operations Against Europe’s Critical Infrastructure' www.iiss.org/research-pap...

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Friends don’t let friends move to modern day Russia. Conmen await you there. And, possibly, violent death. nataliaantonova.substack.com/p/we-moved-t...

Ouch! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Powerful statement from our boss Gen Michael Hayden w/ former CIA officer David Gioe in the new Foreign Affairs www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Excited to share my latest research examining how Russia's sabotage operations could extend from Europe to orbit. The space domain presents unique vulnerabilities that mirror—and amplify—the hybrid threats we're already seeing on Earth.

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

Getting rid of threat hunting increases government efficiency, just not for the US government.

"Foreign adversaries including Russia and China have recently directed their intelligence services to ramp up recruiting of US federal employees working in national security, targeting those who have been fired or feel they could be soon" www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...

Russian sabotage using gig economy approach @drichterova.bsky.social @magslong.bsky.social Patrick Bury

▶️ 'The Long Shadow of the Soviet Sabotage?’, War on the Rocks, shorturl.at/TLhT8 ▶️ 'Russian Sabotage in the Gig-Economy Era', RUSI, co-authored @kloosha.bsky.social, @magslong.bsky.social & @patrickbury.bsky.social, shorturl.at/qp1Z9 @warstudieskcl.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

October 7 raised many difficult questions relating not only to collection and analysis, but also to the relationship b/w intelligence and policymakers. On Jan. 21 we will hold a panel to discuss intel-policy relations in a comparative perspective (USA, Russia, & Israel)>>

Could 2024 be considered the golden year of #intelligence studies? Based on @intelarchive.io data, the answer is yes. A mini thread about publications on intelligence studies in 2024. +

#WatchingTheJackals uncovers #Czechoslovakia's interactions with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine #PFLP, led by the powerful #GeorgeHabash & the followers of its breakaway military mastermind #WadiHaddad, poisoned by #Mossad in 1978. @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @kcsi.uk

Our final Insights post of the year is now out - an Insight into KCSI in 2024 by @yozkan.bsky.social kcsi.uk/kcsi-insight...

🎙️ Great pleasure talking to @ianwilloughby.bsky.social @radiopraguefr.bsky.social about 📗 #WatchingTheJackals, research in #Czech archives, #Arafat, #AbuDaoud & much more. Take a listen 👇 @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @kcsi.uk

A new take on Pokemon Go game - using teens to collect intel

Many 🙏 to @telegraphnews.bsky.social for quoting our piece published by @rusi.bsky.social on 🇷🇺 #sabotage in the gig-economy era, authored w/ @kloosha.bsky.social @magslong.bsky.social @patrickbury.bsky.social www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11... Full RUSI report: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I wrote about yesterday’s Russian missile strike on Ukraine, what Putin might have been trying to signal by using a “new” intermediate-range missile with multiple warheads, and how seriously to take that signal. www.economist.com/europe/2024/...

Great talk tonight by @lucatrenta to @kcsi.uk on Luca’s important new book ‘The President’s Kill List: Assassination and US Foreign Policy since 1945’ lnkd.in/e2Kc9qBw Has there been a more important time to discuss the normalisation of state sponsored assassination? @edinburghup.bsky.social

Re-upping my starter pack for Intelligence Studies and Practitioners as there have been a number of additions recently. I hope that there can be even more in the future as more colleagues continue to migrate over here.

Russian poking around submarine cables ... not a new issue of course. I've written about Soviet trawlers severing submarine cables that carried nuclear command and control data during the Cold War. See the article in the first comment. www.rte.ie/news/primeti...

🚨New #KCSIInsights blog by Dr Daniela Richterova (@drichterova.bsky.social) who discusses her recent RUSI article with Dr Magda Long (@magslong.bsky.social), Elena Grossfeld (@kloosha.bsky.social) and Dr Patrick Bury on a New Era of Russian Sabotage. kcsi.uk/kcsi-insight...

What could explain the failure of Israeli intelligence to anticipate the Hamas attack? My analysis for @ForeignPolicy foreignpolicy.com/2023/10/11/i...