On @Intstrategist's Radar...
A selection of recent finds found during 26 October - 2 November 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:
Trump’s Japan Deal and the Disappearing Appropriations Clause | Just Security
PassiveNeuron Cyber Espionage Campaign: What Cybersecurity Leaders Must Know - SOCRadar® Cyber Intelligence Inc.
FBI opposes push for Gabbard to take lead on counterintelligence | The Seattle Times
Dark Pragmatism and the Ethics of Cognitive Warfare | Small Wars Journal by Arizona State University
Data Centre Investments Bad Deals | Inter Press Service
The invisible siege: Securing the Indo-Pacific’s telecom backbone | The Strategist
US national intelligence director backs Trump’s foreign policy | AP News
GOP’s Mike Turner expresses frustration with Venezuela boat strike briefing | The Hill
The northern frosts: The EU should contain and unpower Russia in the Arctic | European Union Institute for Security Studies
Former Australian Signals Directorate employee accused of selling trade secrets to Russia by US prosecutors - ABC News
Will Israel’s Algorithmic Counter-Insurgency Proliferate to the West? | War on the Rocks
Artificial intelligence and the future of espionage | The Strategist
Amazon job cull shows the darker side of artificial intelligence – The Irish Times
Mastercard introduces first-ever threat intelligence solution to combat payment fraud at scale | Mastercard Newsroom
Why OpenAI’s restructuring could reshape the artificial intelligence landscape - Los Angeles Times
French intelligence links Holocaust memorial vandalism to alleged Russian hybrid campaign | Kyiv Independent
11/1/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary | Small Wars Journal by Arizona State University
The Illusion of Learning: The Danger of Artificial Intelligence to Education | American Enterprise Institute - AEI
Coinbase CEO Stunt Exposes Prediction Market Vulnerability | Bloomberg via Yahoo!
Trump administration appears poised to launch strikes on Venezuela | The Hill
U.S. intelligence agencies see no sign Russia is ready to compromise on Ukraine | NBC News
How North Korea outsmarts US intelligence agencies—and what they should do to adapt - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
How Aon Transformed into a Future-Ready, Data-Driven Enterprise Built for the Age of Intelligence - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM RELTIO | Harvard Business Review
Congressman Himes on Venezuela, Latin America & a Disordered World | War on the Rocks
DoDI 3000.07: New policy for Irregular Warfare | Small Wars Journal by Arizona State University
China’s Xi pushes for global AI body at APEC in counter to US | Reuters
There is no such thing as conscious artificial intelligence | Humanities and Social Sciences Communications | Nature
Tim Cook on Apple Intelligence: ‘We’re making good progress….’ – Computerworld
Third Generation Gangs Strategic Note No. 59: Police Raid “Megaoperação Contenção” on Comando Vermelho Leads to 132 Killed | Small Wars Journal by Arizona State University
Chelsea Manning, former intelligence analyst: “If someone were to publish a massive leak today, people would say ‘oh this isn’t true” | U.S. | EL PAÍS English
AI and Education for collective intelligence: A futures perspective | UNESCO
Expert Backgrounder: War Powers Res 60-Day Clock for Boat Strikes Expiring Monday | Just Security
Collective intelligence in animals and robots | Nature Communications
State Department Intelligence Agency Dissented Over Putin’s Appetite for Peace | WSJ via Yahoo!
Artificial intelligence and the Gulf Cooperation Council workforce: adapting to the future of work | Humanities and Social Sciences Communications | Nature
Intelligence Committees and the CIA Covert Action in Venezuela | Just Security
ICEYE launches tactical access to guarantee critical SAR imaging for defence and intelligence needs | Defence Industry EU
Western intelligence says Iran is rearming despite UN sanctions, with China’s help | CNN
Artificial Intelligence-Driven Components Helping Advance EMS Space | AFCEA International