On @Intstrategist's Radar...
A selection of recent finds found during 5-19 October 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:
Team Intelligence: Jon Levy On Unlocking Collective Genius | Forbes
Democratized Intelligence: How Open-Source Intelligence is Reshaping Asymmetric Advantage | Small Wars Journal by Arizona State University
Are China’s Spy Satellites A Lifeline For Russia’s Struggling Space Intelligence? | Radio Free Europe
Iraq/United States • The global reach of spyware provider Ben Jamil | Intelligence Online
What Weaponizing the Espionage Act Means for Whistleblowers and Reporters | Just Security
Spyware maker NSO Group blocked from WhatsApp | TechCrunch
UN member states urged to press Iran on increased executions - JURIST
Trump gave specific intelligence to Ukraine for strikes on Russian energy | The Telegraph
Supply Chains Are Critical Infrastructure. It’s Time U.S. Policy Caught Up. | War on the Rocks
The $1T Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Arms Race | Mogin Law LLP - JDSupra
PSNI confirm journalists’ data can be shared with intelligence agencies – The Irish News
Shabaab claims prison assault in Mogadishu - FDD’s Long War Journal
China accuses US of cyber breaches at national time centre | Reuters
China spy scandal ‘kills’ UK intelligence operations in Beijing | i paper
Former intelligence analyst on Trump, the CIA and Venezuela | NPR
When Deference is No Longer Due | Just Security
Syria • Syria’s spy chief ramps up regional intelligence cooperation | Intelligence Online
Crisis24 Launches Crisis24 AiiA Powered by Palantir, Delivering State-Level Intelligence Briefings to C-Suite and Board Leaders | via Yahoo!
Army eyes larger all-source intelligence support to EW - Breaking Defense
Guiding Disaster Risk-Reduction Investments Through AI-Powered Tools | Inter Press Service
Attacking Drug Cartels in the Territory of Another State | Just Security
Moldova’s Democratic Defiance | Inter Press Service
Expanding the Frontiers of Maritime Intelligence and Security at Maritime ISR 2025 | UST
Ashraf Marwan: Israel’s ‘Angel’ or Egypt’s Double Agent? | intelNews.org
Questions for CPS after No 10 publishes key witness statements in China spy row | Labour | The Guardian
Russia ready for ‘hot confrontation’ with Europe at any moment, German intelligence head warns | The Kyiv Independent
How CrowdStrike Stops Living-off-the-Land Attacks | Crowdstrike
Trump’s trade war cuts into North America container demand | Shipping Watch
AGI And AI Superintelligence Could Spawn A New Kind Of Alien Intelligence | Forbes
United States • Tulsi Gabbard tightens grip on strategic analysis | Intelligence Online
How I (nearly) became a Chinese intelligence asset | The Independent
The Strategic Importance of Greenland: The Role of Tactical Missile and Air Defense in the Arctic | Small Wars Journal by Arizona State University
Quo Vadis UN @80? | Inter Press Service
Eagleview launches innovation center to expand AI-driven geospatial intelligence | Space War
Microsoft Drops Record-Setting Patch Update | Dark Reading
How Emotional Intelligence Transforms Experts Into Great Leaders | Forbes
Inside China’s spy network: How Beijing’s intelligence machine operates - NZ Herald
Governing AI Agents Globally | Just Security
Former France President Sarkozy ordered to begin five-year prison sentence - JURIST
India and Australia set to sign submarine rescue and intelligence-sharing agreements | Army Recognition
The Double Black Box: National Security, Artificial Intelligence, and the Struggle for Democratic Accountability - Harvard SEAS
How Israel’s famed intelligence agencies have always relied on help from their friends | The Conversation
Russia Accuses Antiwar Exiles of Terrorism - The New York Times
Lloyd’s List Intelligence Unveils New Compliance Tool – Digital Ship
Artificial intelligence, real politics: What Albania’s AI Minister means for EU accession | European Union Institute for Security Studies
Keep Senate confirmation for top intelligence lawyers, civil liberties groups urge - Nextgov/FCW
WhatsApp changes its terms to bar general purpose chatbots from its platform | TechCrunch
The Second Front: PRC Micro-Occupation in the Philippines, Part 2 | Small Wars Journal by Arizona State University
Trump says six killed in strike on ‘narcoterrorists’ off Venezuela’s coast | The Hill
UK spy plane circles Russian territory for intelligence | UK Defence Journal
Betting on Our Collective Mind With Prediction Markets | Psychology Today
Export Controls and U.S. Trade Policy: Making Sense of the New Terrain | Just Security
Israeli hostage killed in failed Gaza rescue attempt due to intelligence error: Report | aa.com (Turkey)
United States • Tulsi Gabbard to rely more heavily on Project 2025 playbook | Intelligence Online
NEWS: ‘UK Sanctions List’ will become sole source for designations from January 28, 2026 - AML Intelligence
The Ethical Imperative of Information: Just War Considerations for Global Information Strategy | Small Wars Journal by Arizona State University
Trump announces repatriation of recent boat strike survivors | The Hill
10/17/25 National Security and Korean News and Commentary | Small Wars Journal by Arizona State University
Mitigations for network defence | Cyber.gov.au
Can artificial intelligence really think—and do we care? | The Strategist
Foreign Office chief to visit China after collapse of high-profile espionage case | Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office | The Guardian
China sharpening forces for possible future attack, Taiwanese report says – Radio Free Asia
General Atomics’ Gray Eagle STOL Drone Will Be Made In Korea | The War Zone
Threat Intelligence Report 2025 | Nokia.com
From Algorithms to Accountability: What Global AI Governance Should Look Like | Inter Press Service
Parallax Cognition: AI and Human Thought Find New Depth | Psychology Today
We were promised super-intelligence. We got a mountain of AI ‘slop’ | The Telegraph
UK confirms success of Aether high-altitude balloon trials | UK Defence Journal
The Anti-Corruption Tracker: Mapping the Erosion of Oversight and Accountability | Just Security
China’s targeting of human rights activists grows: UN report | ICIJI
Dutch intelligence services cut back on sharing information with U.S | NL Times
Intelligence Surveillance Reconnaissance (ISR) Market to Reach USD 76.5 Billion by 2035 — Driven by Rising Defense Modernization – FMIBlog
US intelligence helps Ukraine target Russian energy infrastructure, FT reports | Reuters
Pakistan/Saudi Arabia • The Saudi prince at the heart of Riyadh and Islamabad’s technical intelligence cooperation | Intelligence Online
British troops put articifial intelligence to test in combat | UK Defence Journal
BreachForums Seized (Yes, Again) - SOCRadar® Cyber Intelligence Inc.
Dutch intelligence services now share less information with US - DutchNews.nl
Behavioral scientist Jon Levy breaks down new book ‘Team Intelligence’ | NBC News
WHO upgrades its public health intelligence system to boost global health security | WHO
Maxar rebrands for a era of AI-Powered spatial intelligence | The Jerusalem Post
Beyond Decision Superiority: The Role of Intelligence in Innovation & Adaptation | War on the Rocks