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Two recent low-key calls for tenders reveal a great deal about how Command 86 – the unit within the Vietnam [...]

With Moscow banking on the Northern Sea Route through the Arctic to circumvent international sanctions and expand its trade routes, Russia's Minister of Development of the Far East and the Arctic Alexsey Chekunkov is taking tighter control of his ministry.

Recently installed UK ambassador to the UAE Geraldine McCafferty's 2 October meeting with Badr Jafar, the UAE's Special Envoy for Business and Philanthropy, is said to have raised eyebrows in the country's expatriate investor community. Jafar, scion of the wealthy [...]

United States – Former JD Vance adviser promoted within diplo intelLess than three months after taking up his post as [...]

The benefit of the IP4 format, which since 2022 has involved Australia, Japan, South Korea and New Zealand in NATO's [...]

The architect of several right-wing French presidential campaigns, high-ranking official Patrick Stefanini is expanding his influence within the diplomatic circles addressing French migration issues.

The Republic of Srpska's former President Milorad Dodik is currently planning another trip to the United States. This leading figure [...]

The Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force (JMSDF) and the Japanese Coast Guard (JCG) are reviewing their doctrine to be adequately prepared in the event of a Chinese invasion, and in response to the so-called "grey zone" tactics employed by Beijing in [...]

A conspicuous visit to London by Omani officials and dignitaries this week, including the Sultan and his heir, Crown Prince [...]

On 6 June 2025, the head of the DGSE Nicolas Lerner invited the cream of French academic intelligence research to [...]

For Democratic lawmaker Jim Himes, ranking member of the House of Representatives' intelligence committee – the House Permanent Select Committee [...]

The extradition of Bangladesh's former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is no longer a prerequisite for resuming dialogue with India. Indeed, Bangladesh's Prime Minister Tarique Rahman is expected to visit New Delhi in late November, to meet Indian Prime Minister Narendra [...]

Political tensions between presidents Karol Nawrocki and Volodymyr Zelensky, fuelled by the dispute over the Volhynia massacres of Polish civilians [...]

Intelligence Online has learnt that a representative of France's DGSE foreign intelligence agency's administrative corps (a specific body of civil [...]

A former US Air Force official, Gary Zimmerman, whose business partner was involved in a government bribery case, has joined [...]

General Stéphane Virem, who has headed France's Strategic Air Force since 2024, is to leave his post shortly and is eyeing a move into the private sector.

The US Air Force announced last month that it was cutting civilian research positions at its small but influential China Aerospace Studies Institute (CASI), all-but closing down the think tank and alarming specialists in Washington who rely on its research [...]

Muscat was characteristically coy last week about the high-level defence talks held by its diplomatic delegation to Islamabad. An official [...]

Paris – Dassault Aviation interviews for top security jobBruno Giorgianni, Executive Committee Secretary and Senior Vice President, Public Affairs and [...]

In September 2025, Gaël Marchand, then interim manager for Louis Vuitton's security department which he headed from 2018 to March [...]