Operation Paperclip 2.0: The EU's Opportunity to Blitzscale their DARPA and Lincoln Lab Equivalents

After the fall of Nazi Germany in WWII, the US intelligence community conducted an operation to EXFIL more than a thousand scientists and engineers from the ashes of the collapsed fascist state. Th...

Fortify or Fold: Europe’s Defining Moment to Reimagine its Defense

Europe stands at a crossroads, confronted by a security environment that has arguably never been more complex or unpredictable since the Cold War. In the first months of the Trump administration, s...

Trojan Horse: DOGE Mass Layoffs Have Led to the Greatest Counterintelligence Threat in Western History

The concept of MICE - Money, Ideology, Compromise (or Coercion), and Ego - has long been a central framework for explaining why individuals commit espionage. Within the US Intelligence Community (I...

Captagon

New U.S. legislation attempts to thwart the long standing Captagon trade in Syria — but with Iran and North Korea propping up the Assad regime as it makes billions off the drug, the effectiveness o...

Fifth Generation Warfare

Our minds are now a battlefield and all the world's a stage.