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France's ODAS arms export body, which markets exports to the Middle East, has been placed under administration by a commercial [...]

Norway - Police looking for geopolitical analysis providerThe Norwegian police are actively seeking a company capable of providing geopolitical intelligence [...]

Several sources close to French software group ChapsVision, which enjoys Paris's support, have confirmed that the firm is currently focusing [...]

The European External Action Service's (EEAS) current managing director for peace security and defence, Germany's Benedikta von Seherr-Thoss, looks set [...]

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DRAFT REPORT on the implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2026
Committee on Security and Defence
Nathalie Loiseau

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According to Intelligence Online sources, the data-processing platform used by the International Gaza Support Center (IGSC) in southern Israel is [...]

In the wake of the bombshell arrest on 24 July of Claire Zhang, a suspected spy interning at NATO's Supreme [...]

Since 17 July, Aleksandr Poklad has headed Ukraine's SBU domestic intelligence service after President Volodymyr Zelensky appointed him without awaiting [...]

The French National Office for Aerospace Studies and Research and the defence ministry recently conducted a successful test involving the Nostradamus radar, which can detect spy balloons and ballistic and hypersonic missiles over thousands of kilometres.

In the run-up to the 21st National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, which is shaping up to be one of the most sensitive in decades, President Xi Jinping is tightening control over information flows regarding personnel changes.

An academic accolade caught the attention of insiders in European security circles in mid-June, when a research paper highlighting German intelligence's serious flaws received an honourable mention from the jury at a major conference organised by Intelligence College in Europe. [...]

After a search lasting many months, a successor to high-profile media consultant Alain Bauer to head the top criminology chair [...]

The directive has been rolled out across the board since it began circulating earlier this year. According to several sources [...]

France's ADIT has won the most lucrative contract, worth €409,000, to implement the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region’s economic intelligence roadmap.

According to Intelligence Online's sources in Beijing, Spain is proving an attractive country for Chinese investors mainly for security reasons, on top of political and economic considerations. Indeed, back in 2012 a very discreet channel was initiated in this area, [...]

It is a window into history: a video-call, filmed sometime in early 2023. A group of senior officials from the [...]

Intelligence Online understands that Vietnam's top leader, To Lam, the general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) and [...]

France's ANTENJ digital legal investigations techniques agency is looking for a private-sector solution to protect the data collected and stored in the course of investigations conducted by judges, and civilian and military police officers.

Iran’s leadership is admitting what the world can now see: the pressure is working.

President Masoud Pezeshkian acknowledged Iran’s economic shortages, saying, “The war must come to an end at some point.”

Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Iran’s parliamentary speaker, was even more… pic.twitter.com/IEopNO1cT8

— Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent (@SecScottBessent) August 25, 2026 IF! IF we have the most powerful military on the face of this planet then why can't we close the deal against technologically inferior nation states? Iraq and Afghanistan were both painful slogs without a satisfactory outcome. Before that you could say the same for Vietnam and maybe even Korea. Now we're faced with Iran and it ain't looking rosey folks.
IF!  IF the issue isn't with the troops or the gear then it swings toward leadership.
IF!  IF its a leadership issue then you have to ask if its civilian or military leadership that is the problem.
Looking at Iraq & Afghanistan I come down solidly on the side of a failure of civilian leadership of BOTH parties.  IMO Bush Jr was a fucking idiot.  Obama didn't cover himself in glory.  Trump didn't shine either.  Biden?  Biden was a fucking disgrace who lost his damn mind midway thru his term and his "camp followers" were even more pathetic.
But we don't know what advice they were given by our military leadership either so maybe they aren't as bad as I'm thinking.
Either way we have a serious problem.
We like to think that as jacked up as the federal govt is, at least the DOW is semi-capable.
I'm not so sure it is.
Now we have an apparent changing of the guard.  Instead of a war being won by the DOW while being supported by the rest of govt, it seems that the Treasury Dept has taken the lead while the Services attempt to reset while engaging....if you can call an extended ceasefire as engaging.