What the fuck is happening at the Pentagon?

By: E.C. Browne Among a myriad of feel-good photo ops and public announcements while the "Signalgate" investigation takes place, yet another high level resignation at the Pentagon is drawing bipart...

Derivative Classification

We often hear about “protecting sources and methods,” but on a practical level, how do we ensure that sensitive information remains under lock and key? That’s where the principle of derivative clas...

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.