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👉🏼 The article considers whether adopting elements of Australia's intelligence reforms - the creation of ONI and the designation of a principal adviser to the PM on intelligence matters - could improve the policymaker-intelligence coordination in the UK.

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Learning from Canberra: A Smarter Vision for UK Intelligence and National Security
Without adopting Canberra's policies wholesale, the UK's intelligence-policymaker network would benefit from making some of the changes Australia has implemented, particularly the designation of a pri...
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November 23, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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👉🏼 The piece offers fascinating insight into the Red Hands affair — one of nine alleged Russian operations to take place in France since autumn 2023, and the first to result in a trial over suspected Russian interference on French soil in October 2025.

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Strategic Vandalism: Decoding the French 'Red Hands' Trial
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November 21, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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November 8, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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🕵️‍♂️ “Our Man in Prague” tells the story of one of MI6’s greatest, and least known, triumphs behind the Iron Curtain with Miloslav Kroča as its central figure.

🗓️ To be published in 2027

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October 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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October 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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📄 'International lulz: Exploring the strategic logic of trolling in diplomacy’
🗣️ Huw Dylan and Thomas Colley
📌 European Journal of International Security
DOI: 10.1017/eis.2025.10028

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October 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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📄 'The making of an intelligence failure'
🗣️ Sir David Omand
📌 Engelsberg Ideas

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October 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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📄 'Smart new world: adapting human intelligence for the digital age'
🗣️ David V. Gioe and Tony Manganello
📌 Intelligence and National Security
DOI: 10.1080/02684527.2025.2565946

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October 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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📄 'From Prague With a Shove'
🗣️ Michael Young in an interview with @drichterova.bsky.social on lessons from her latest book, "Watching the Jackals"
📌 Diwan, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's Middle East Program @carnegieendowment.org

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October 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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📄 ‘The Saudi-Pakistan Nuclear Agreement.
The Same But Very Different'
🗣️ Tim Willasey-Wilsey
📌 Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) @rusi.bsky.social

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October 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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📄 'The Changing Face of the Academic Study of Intelligence in the UK'
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📌 KCSI Insights

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October 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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📄 'Here's Why the Next Clash Between India and Pakistan Could Be Even More
Dangerous'
🗣️ Tim Willasey-Wilsey
📌 The Cipher Brief

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October 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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📄 'Spying in the digital era. An interview with David Omand and John Taylor’
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📌 Intelligence and National Security
DOI: 10.1080/ 02684527.2025.2565947

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October 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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📄 'The War on Open-Source Intelligence'
🗣️ Thomas Colley and Huw Dylan
📌 The Washington Quarterly 48(3)
DOI: 10.1080/ 0163660X.2025.2554477

🔗 Link: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
October 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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📄 'Revisionist future: Russia's assault on large language models, the distortion of collective memory, and the politics of eternity’
🗣️ Huw Dylan and Elena Grossfeld
📌 Dialogues on Digital Society
DOI: 10.1177/29768640251377941

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October 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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October 21, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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📖 Learn more about the Kjetil Hatlebrekke Memorial Book Prize here: kcsi.uk/kjetil-hatle...

👉🏼 Submit a nomination for the prize here: tinyurl.com/hatlebrekkeb...
Kjetil Hatle­brekke Memo­r­i­al Book Prize
The Prize aims to recognise scholarship on non-Five Eyes intelligence cultures and systems.
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October 21, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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📖 Learn more about the Polly Corrigan Book Prize here: kcsi.uk/polly-corrig...

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Polly Corrigan Book Prize
About The Polly Corrigan Book Prize is sponsored by The King’s Centre for the Study of Intelligence (KCSI), Intelligence and National Security (INS,…
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October 21, 2025 at 9:50 AM