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On October 7, Hamas launched a significant and well-coordinated attack on Israel, surprising its defenses. Considered the ‘most serious attack in a generation’, the offensive exposed multiple intelligence failures on the Israeli side, revealing both Hamas’ effective planning and considerable weaknesses in Israeli security structures.
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Professor Philip H. J. Davies On 10 June, 1978 a 31-year-old Red Army captain defected to the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service (SIS, aka ‘MI6’) in Geneva. Vladimir Bogdanovich Rezun was an officer in the GRU (Glavnoye Upravlenoye Razvedivatelnie), Russian defence intelligence, who would later write a succession of nominally factual books as well as fiction…
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By Dr. Kevin Riehle The predominant theme in the West since Aleksei Navalny’s death on 16 February 2024 is that Vladimir Putin killed him. His wife, who is understandably grieved and angry, has led that narrative. But is it possible that there is an alternative analysis? Maybe by persisting in that theme, the West is…
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Dr Kevin Riehle and Professor Philip H J Davies In September 2023, five Bulgarians—Orlin Rusev, Vanya Gaberova, Ivan Stoyanov, and Bizer Dzhambazov and Katrin Ivanova as a couple—appeared in a British court charged with ‘conspiring to collect information intended to be directly or indirectly useful to an enemy’, in other words, espionage. Some have assessed…
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Literature on intelligence tends to acknowledge the requirements and priorities (R&P) process in passing, but rarely is explored in depth— at best, it is granted a few pages in larger volumes. However, this mechanism, which exists at the nexus of the intelligence and policy communities, has a significant impact on national security outcomes. My most…
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