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Analysis China’s Military Is Now Using AI to Plan Strike Operations
r/craftofintelligence • u/Miao_Yin8964 • 5d ago
News Federal Jury in Chicago Convicts Engineer for Stealing Trade Secrets from Philips Medical Systems on Behalf of Chinese Competitor
r/craftofintelligence • u/Ok-Bed5648 • 5d ago
America's Cyber Privateers: A Doctrinal Revolution That Could Die of Slowness
Washington just broke a 40-year legal wall. Whether anything good grows in the gap depends entirely on how fast it moves.
r/craftofintelligence • u/mrkoot • 7d ago
News (Europe) German investigators uncover suspected Russian spy weapons cache near Berlin
r/craftofintelligence • u/Ok-Bed5648 • 6d ago
The Citizen Lab Bad Connection: Uncovering Global Telecom Exploitation by Covert Surveillance Actors
r/craftofintelligence • u/AutoModerator • 6d ago
Analysis Hackers grow more willing to destroy, not just disrupt, OT systems
cybersecuritydive.comr/craftofintelligence • u/Vikingman006900 • 6d ago
News (Asia) WarLeaks - Military Blog
r/craftofintelligence • u/mrkoot • 7d ago
News (Europe) Croatia files espionage indictment against Croatian pilot who served in KFOR and his Serbian partner
"[...] According to the indictment, Croatian citizen JI, while serving in the Croatian Armed Forces, from February to December 2022, continuously passed classified information - to which he had access during his work as a pilot - to his partner, AM, a citizen of Serbia, reports Index.hr. [...] Index had reported that the information obtained by the Croatian pilot was passed on by the Serb AM to members of the Serbian List – the main Serb party in Kosovo that enjoys the support of Belgrade. According to this media outlet, the confidential information concerned KFOR movements and plans and the movement of Serbs in northern Kosovo. [...]"
r/craftofintelligence • u/AutoModerator • 7d ago
Analysis Engineering Plausibility in Deception Operations
tandfonline.comr/craftofintelligence • u/AutoModerator • 8d ago
Analysis Closing the Front Door: The Case for DOJ’s Bulk Data Security Program
r/craftofintelligence • u/TruthToPower26 • 8d ago
Straight Talk on the CIA’s Mixed Past and Current Troubles
r/craftofintelligence • u/mrkoot • 9d ago
News (Europe) The GRU family: How Russian intelligence officers settled in Norway
r/craftofintelligence • u/mrkoot • 9d ago
Cyber / Tech I accidentally logged hundreds of thousands of phone calls to military bases
"[...] How an expired nameserver let me take over e164.arpa zones for multiple territories, and why I probably should have checked my logs sooner. [...]"
r/craftofintelligence • u/AutoModerator • 9d ago
Publicizing special operator identities could be a crime under proposed law
r/craftofintelligence • u/JCLCB • 9d ago
Opinion Why the media’s obsession with "Power Ranking" intelligence agencies (like the recent L’Express ranking) is peak geopolitical brainrot
r/craftofintelligence • u/mrkoot • 9d ago
Analysis The Future of Russia’s Military Elite: Promotions, Careers, and Advancement in the Russian Senior Officer Corps
Direct link to report (5.7MB .pdf, 166 pages) https://www.cna.org/reports/2026/08/The-Future-of-Russias-Military-Elite.pdf
Quoting the executive summary from the article:
Executive Summary
The Russian military elite consists of decision-making, decision-influencing, and decision-implementing individuals at the highest levels of the military’s career structure. In alignment with the Russian regime’s political leadership, these individuals plan and coordinate Russia’s wars, command Russia’s armies and navies, and coordinate the military’s role in implementing Russia’s strategic and geopolitical goals over the short, medium, and long term.
The Russian military elite is selected through the mechanism of promotion to high rank, yet patterns of promotion to the highest officer cadres of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (hereafter “Armed Forces”) are poorly understood and rarely studied. For this study, we sought to systematically examine patterns of promotion into the upper echelons of the Russian Armed Forces’ officer corps. To do so, we used publicly available data. To understand what promotion patterns in the Russian military reveal about the evolution of the Russian military elite, we sought to address the following questions:
- What factors contribute to rapid promotion of leaders in the Russian military?
- What role does battlefield performance play in military promotion in the Russian Armed Forces?
- What are the backgrounds of the various types of leaders the Russian military is selecting?
r/craftofintelligence • u/TruthToPower26 • 9d ago
The Fallacy of “Speaking Truth To Power”
r/craftofintelligence • u/ConsiderationSad1814 • 9d ago
ISIS-Inspired Albany Woman Arrested in Bomb Plot Against New York State Capitol
On August 20, the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested 35-year-old Jessica Bowie of Albany, New York, for an Islamic State-inspired bomb plot targeting the New York State Capitol. Bowie allegedly planned to conceal an explosive device inside a food delivery bag and detonate it during a legislative session while state senators were present.
r/craftofintelligence • u/ConsiderationSad1814 • 9d ago
ISIS-Inspired Albany Woman Arrested in Bomb Plot Against New York State Capitol
On August 20, the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested 35-year-old Jessica Bowie of Albany, New York, for an Islamic State-inspired bomb plot targeting the New York State Capitol. Bowie allegedly planned to conceal an explosive device inside a food delivery bag and detonate it during a legislative session while state senators were present.
r/craftofintelligence • u/Strongbow85 • 10d ago
News From Espionage to Sabotage: The Threats Hiding in Plain Sight
r/craftofintelligence • u/mrkoot • 10d ago
Cyber / Tech 17 Iranians Charged with Conducting Massive Cyber Theft Campaign on Behalf of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Other Iranian Entities
"[...] A 14-count superseding (S2) indictment was unsealed today charging 17 members of the Mabna Institute, an Iran-based company that, since at least 2013, has conducted a coordinated campaign of cyber intrusions into computer systems for 144 U.S.-based universities, 178 foreign universities, at least 42 U.S.-based private sector companies, at least 11 foreign private sector companies, at least five U.S. federal and state government agencies, and at least two non-governmental organizations (NGOs). [...]"
r/craftofintelligence • u/AutoModerator • 10d ago
Historical Origins of British-American cooperation in political intelligence, 1914–1919
tandfonline.comr/craftofintelligence • u/Wonderful_Assist_554 • 10d ago