On @Intstrategist's Radar...
A selection of recent finds found during 20-27 July 2025
‘Intelligence’ = ‘Understanding’ + ‘Influence’. // Rationale: There is plenty of ‘chatter’ relating to contemporary developments. Drawing on 'Intelligence Engineering' (IE) - www.intstrategist.com/intelligence-engineering-book - this Substack 'post' provides a distilled and curated series of quickly scrollable headlines that especially relate to 'intelligence' topics and further offer: (i) informed insight as to where we are presently; and (ii), at least beginning, foresight into future directions that are opening up. Feedback, discussion & debate is welcomed. //
Source headlines listed as follows:
Forecasting the Fifth Wave: Emerging Terrorist Threats in a Changing World | Small Wars Journal by Arizona State University
4 new Android spyware samples linked to Iran's intel agency | The Register
From Iceland — Artificial Iceland: Data Centres Use Up Much Of Iceland’s Energy, But For What? | Grapevine (Iceland)
Decoding Trump’s AI Playbook: The AI Action Plan and What Comes Next | Just Security
7/25/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary | Small Wars Journal by Arizona State University
China AI action plan | CNBC
Estonia's Robust Security Posture: Dispelling the "Is Narva Next?" Narrative - ICDS
Who's Who in Defense: Joni Ernst, Chairman, Senate Armed Services (SASC) Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities - Breaking Defense
Spire Global launches new space-based intelligence products for defense market - SpaceNews
Lukashenko resumes use of migrants to 'exert political pressure' on Europe, Ukraine's intelligence says | Kyiv Independent
Can Barack Obama be prosecuted over ‘Russian interference’ intelligence? | Al Jazeera
China calls for global 'consensus' on AI regulation – DW (Germany)
The War Room newsletter: Three new books on espionage | The Economist
Retired CIA official rebuts Gabbard’s claims about US intelligence on Russian election interference | CNN Politics
7/24/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary | Small Wars Journal by Arizona State University
Sen. Johnson: Media ‘either duped or complicit’ in Russia election interference ‘narrative’ | The Hill
Gabbard releases more Russia documents to accuse Obama of ‘manufacturing’ intelligence | CNN Politics
White House unveils artificial intelligence policy plan | Reuters
Congress has a chequered history of overseeing US intelligence and national security | The Conversation
Material Needs of Artificial Intelligence Eclipsed by Energy Debates | Forbes
Researchers uncover secretive Russian spy unit by studying its commemorative badges | intelNews.org
Nations torn by infighting will lose, Ukraine's military intelligence chief warns amid controversial law | Kyiv Independent
UK man convicted of offering minister's information to Russian intelligence | Reuters
FDA’s artificial intelligence is supposed to revolutionize drug approvals. It’s making up nonexistent studies. | CNN Politics
AI.gov is here. Here’s what it means for Australia | The Strategist
[Hard] to Kill: The Transnational Survival of the FCPA [(Foreign Corrupt Practices Act)] | Just Security
New Reports on Russian Interference Show Trump’s Claims on Obama Are Overblown - The New York Times
Russian Intelligence Recruits Refugees and Migrants in NATO Countries for Espionage - Jamestown
What Makes Great Threat Intelligence? | Dark Reading
Major intelligence website hacked in search for CIA spying secrets - Washington Times
Assessing the Trump Administration’s AI Action Plan | Just Security
US intelligence chief says Obama 'directed' manipulation of 2016 Russia intelligence | AA (Turkey)
Annotated Bibliography: Chinese Maritime Militia and Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing | Small Wars Journal by Arizona State University
Fuelled by rivalry, Israeli intelligence’s ruthlessly effective year | The Times
New Russian Drone Made Completely Of Chinese Components: Ukrainian Intelligence | The War Zone
‘Intelligence too cheap to meter’ is AI’s next frontier, Sam Altman says | Fortune
Iran's foreign minister says US strikes 'destroyed' nuclear facilities | The Hill
Artificial intelligence in sustainable development research | Nature Sustainability
3D-printed guns, AI fraud, synthetic drugs: the future of Irish crime | The Times
UK ban on Palestine Action is an abuse of power, high court told | Protest | The Guardian
‘The Lesson from Gaza Is Clear: When Ai-powered Machines Control Who Lives, Human Rights Die’ | Inter Press Service
Tulsi Gabbard Lying About Obama Russian Intel: Top CIA Official | The Daily Beast
Trump's intelligence chiefs try to rewrite the history of the 2016 election | NBC News
Illicit Liquidity as Battlespace: Rethinking Finance in Asymmetric Conflict | Small Wars Journal by Arizona State University
Senior Mossad veteran discusses recruitment of Iranian assets in rare interview | intelNews.org
Australia is at critical juncture to reform parliamentary intelligence oversight | The Strategist
L3Harris and ELT Group to open intelligence and surveillance sensor test facility in Italy | Defence Industry EU
China proposes global AI cooperation body to guide tech development | AA (Turkey)