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No guts, no glory
By Matthew Bell: Would an independent Scotland be missing some essential body parts? How do you create a new country? Not a question many of us have had to ask, but one surely on the minds of thousands...
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Deconstructing the panopticon
By Andreas Haggman: Anonymous graffiti on the wall of the British Museum, London Surveillance is always a contentious issue. Whether in the physical realm (CCTV cameras) or digital realm (phone...
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Understanding digital intelligence from a British perspective
By Professor Sir David Omand GCB: GCHQ building at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Photo: Ministry of Defence (creative commons) The Snowden revelations revealed much that was never intended to be public....
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Interview – Sir David Omand on Iraq, the terrorist threat, and surveillance
Interview by Lee Watkins: Professor Sir David Omand GCB, talking at Chatham House in September 2013. Photo: Chatham House (CC) Sir David Omand, former Director of GCHQ, on the current security climate...
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Surveillance, bulk data collection and intelligence. Interview with Bruce...
Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist and the author of 13 books — including “Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World” — as well...
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Review: “Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and...
By: Christy Quinn: Bruce Schneier, Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Capture Your Data and Control Your World. New York, NY: W.W. Norton., 2015. Pp. 400. £ 17.99, ISBN: 978-0-393-24481-6. If...
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Reforming the French intelligence and security system in the post-13/11 Paris...
By: Aliaume Leroy On Friday 13th of November, France suffered the deadliest terrorist attacks it has ever faced in its history. The final numbers reflect a substantial toll: the official account...
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The Little Blue Men: China’s Maritime Proxy-Warfare Strategy
By: Cheng Lai Ki Maritime tensions in the East Asia region are undoubtedly a hallmark event of the early twenty-first century, as well as of the emergence of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) as a...
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Strife Series on Intelligence in the digital age, Part I – The Information...
By: Jessica “Zhanna” Malekos Smith MOSCOW, RUSSIA. DECEMBER 23, 2014. Russia’s president Vladimir Putin (C) arrives at a session of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty...
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Strife Feature – Spying on Friends
By Anastasia Beck In the aftermath of the allegations of the US National Security Agency (NSA) spying on allied states such as Germany, and accusations from the White House concerning alleged spying by...
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Strife Feature – Human Espionage and Intelligence in the Internet Age
By Tolga Inanc When FBI special agent Robert Hanssen approached the KGB to spy for them, his first move in October 1985 was to send an envelope to a midlevel intelligence officer Victor Degtyar’s...
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Book Review: ‘Blinking Red: Crisis and Compromise in American Intelligence...
Reviewed by Ioana Ilie Michael Allen, Blinking Red: Crisis and Compromise in American Intelligence after 9/11. USA, University of Nebraska Press, Potomac Books, Inc., 2013. ISBN: 978-1-61234-823-0....
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SIS Emerges from the Shadows: Causes and Implications of Recruitment Reform
By Oliver Davey SIS headquarters at Vauxhall Cross, London (Credit Image: Getty) On Thursday 24 May 2018, viewers of Channel 4 Evening News—wittingly or unwittingly—witnessed a watershed moment in...
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Strife Series on Cyberwarfare and State Perspectives, Part III – The argument...
By Shivali Bhatt Military Operation in Action, Soldiers Using Military Grade Laptop Targeting Enemy with Satellite (Credit Image: Gorodenkoff / Stock Image) A critical line of argument regarding cyber...
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Understanding digital intelligence from a British perspective
By Professor Sir David Omand GCB: GCHQ building at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Photo: Ministry of Defence (creative commons) The Snowden revelations revealed much that was never intended to be public....
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The British Security Service: Challenges and Opportunities in a Post-Brexit...
by Gemma MacIntyre The SIS Building in London features as the headquarters of the British Secret Intelligence Service (Image credit: Wikimedia) British security services traditionally played a leading...
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Feature – From Debates to Processes: Trajectories of Intelligence Oversight...
by Joseph Jarnecki The British Parliament, seen from across the Thames (Image credit: Britannica) On 17 October 2019, the Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) handed their report on Russian...
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Realigning the Five Eyes (FVEY) Intelligence Alliance against China’s Threat
By: Owen Saunders The Five Eyes Alliance, also known as FVEY: Protectors of Terror or Invaders of Privacy? Originally created as a bilateral US-UK agreement in 1946, the “Five Eyes” intelligence...
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Pakistan Paradox: Will New Intelligence Committee Erase Deficiencies or...
By Mariam Qureshi Image Caption: Prime Minister Imran Khan and Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa at ISI Headquarters. Source: https://www.dawn.com/news/1593085 Pakistan has predominantly been a...
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Order of Battle Analysis and Military Intelligence in the 1973 Yom Kippur War
By Leonardo Palma Israeli Tanks advancing during the Yom Kippur War in October 1973 https://www.history.com/topics/middle-east/yom-kippur-war The 1973 Yom Kippur War has been regarded by traditional...
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