Do you want your books to come with a personal touch? www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

The lust for knowledge is a positive thing as long as it is based on facts and embedded in truth. Through scrolls, texts, books, and encyclopedias, we have quenched our thirst for knowledge. For better or worse, we then got Wikipedia and now the horror — Nazipedia. www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...

Why nobody can read anymore, but why they should. medium.com/design-bootc...

Russian propaganda, infiltration and Quislings in the High North. www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/apparen...

My FOIA request regarding the Combined Cipher Machine (CCM) has resulted in the release of 5 documents related to wheel-motion studies on this machine. Britain and the USA used the CCM during the Second World War, and NATO used it in the 1950s. Continued...

The Forever Mystery — The Voynich Manuscript. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Meet Mark Gubrud, the man who coined the term Artificial General Intelligence. www.wired.com/story/the-ma...

A severe warning from within. steadystate1.substack.com/p/accelerati...

Climbing the intelligence ladder towards success or failure. engelsbergideas.com/essays/the-m...

Are you ready for Cognitive Warfare? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The gullible or greedy European firms ... www.nrk.no/tromsogfinnm...

The gullible or greedy European firms ... www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

The gullible or greedy European firms ... www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/a...

A new crop of conservative media and influencers — including the Gateway Pundit, The Post Millennial, Human Events and the National Pulse — signed an agreement with the Defense Department. But what about the Völkischer Beobachter?

"Harvest now/Decrypt later" — Your secrets are no longer safe. www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/a...

Follow the Nerve and take the pulse on UK politics.

This is what happened to the Jewish professors, lecturers and scientists in Nazi Germany in the 1930s. www.wired.com/story/mark-b...

Another ill-smelling burp from the dimwitted Dmitry Medvedev. www.thetimes.com/world/russia...

NORAD/NORTHCOM Historical Papers, 1952-1980 www.governmentattic.org/NORAD-NCOMhi...

When are we waking up? When will we start implementing active measures, rather than just discussing defence? www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

What happens if Russia attacks NATO after Ukraine? www.thetimes.com/world/russia...

The book that should be on your reading list — "If Russia Wins: A Scenario" by Carlo Masala. www.amazon.com/If-Russia-Wi...

Safety fears as external power to Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant still out after three days www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

They watch your every move, they listen to your every breath... wesleywark.substack.com/p/hello-luch...

Mysterious traffic from the past. cgmckay.substack.com/p/a-most-mys...

“Silent Courier” — whisper in the ear of MI6. www.gov.uk/government/n...

Sir Richard Moore, chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service, or “C,” is retiring this month. His swan song was a speech he delivered in Istanbul, Turkey, on September 19. wesleywark.substack.com/p/cs-swan-song

Don’t think this is sarcasm. I am so old that I had polio before the vaccine was available. Fortunately, a mild case with less damage than many others suffered. I knew people in leg braces, wheelchairs and even an iron lung. SUPPORT & DEFEND SCIENCE.

What we all regularly experience, the endless waits ... www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The serial killer Donald Trump www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

Europe is severely behind in missile defence. missilematters.substack.com/p/europes-mi...

This says all you ever need to know about the Norwegians, boring and without substance — "The election campaign was not only boring, depressingly so, but also devoid of substance." engelsbergideas.com/notebook/nor...

The techniques of political warfare, propaganda, and disinformation are more important now than ever. We are no longer dealing with leaflets dropped from the sky, but snippets of falsehood hitting your screens. Stay vigilant, learn the tricks they use.

SOE Covert Broadcasting. This report written by Ralph Murray of PWE's Middle East Mission outlines covert broadcasting by Special Operations Executive from Jerusalem to the Balkans. psywarorg.substack.com/p/a-report-o...

A, B or C#? (Open Access) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

When Special Operations go wrong. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...

Struggling with a cryptanalytical problem today, an aphorism of Hippocrates, as translated by Chaucer: "The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne" came to mind.

The war that touches us all. www.iiss.org/research-pap...

The latest issue of the International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence is now available, featuring several interesting Open Access articles. Enjoy! www.tandfonline.com/toc/ujic20/3...

A new and very informative posting by the Sigint Historian, which sets Sigint history in perspective and generally offers reflections for historians. siginthistorian.blogspot.com/2025/08/reco...

You said it all. Amen.

We need an army of librarians to attack the White House.

Good article on how the Kremlin is embedding Russian cyber technology around the World. www.foreignaffairs.com/guest-pass/r...

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

Once that had happened, I wrote to Mr. Lehrer with a copy of the paper and a letter asking if he had ever gotten in trouble for it. He kindly wrote back, including a copy of the paper that had been published in Journal of SIAM in 1958, under a slightly different title. Nobody, he said, caught him.

From the pseudo-science cauldron of the witches and alchemists of the Trump Administration. www.energy.gov/topics/climate

Humanity's Enemy Number One: The Trump Administration www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/c...

Exclusive valet service with hidden risks www.wired.com/story/luggag...