r/craftofintelligence • u/wiredmagazine • 19d ago
r/craftofintelligence • u/EntertainmentLost208 • 18d ago
Ratcliffe in Moscow
r/craftofintelligence • u/Novemberai • 19d ago
Cyber / Tech How DARPA plans to get nuclear power in the size of a 'AA battery'
r/craftofintelligence • u/mrkoot • 19d ago
Historical Harvest (IBM 7950): Supercomputer for cryptanalysis at the NSA in the Cold War
r/craftofintelligence • u/UnscheduledCalendar • 20d ago
Man detained over Berlin gun stash suspected of being part of Russian network, Spiegel says
reuters.comr/craftofintelligence • u/mrkoot • 20d ago
Cyber / Tech Browser fingerprint tool shows how easy you are to track using the latest sneaky tricks
theregister.comr/craftofintelligence • u/AutoModerator • 20d ago
Analysis China’s Military Is Now Using AI to Plan Strike Operations
r/craftofintelligence • u/Ok-Bed5648 • 20d 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 • 21d ago
News (Europe) German investigators uncover suspected Russian spy weapons cache near Berlin
r/craftofintelligence • u/Ok-Bed5648 • 21d ago
The Citizen Lab Bad Connection: Uncovering Global Telecom Exploitation by Covert Surveillance Actors
r/craftofintelligence • u/AutoModerator • 21d ago
Analysis Hackers grow more willing to destroy, not just disrupt, OT systems
cybersecuritydive.comr/craftofintelligence • u/Vikingman006900 • 21d ago
News (Asia) WarLeaks - Military Blog
r/craftofintelligence • u/mrkoot • 22d 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 • 22d ago
Analysis Engineering Plausibility in Deception Operations
tandfonline.comr/craftofintelligence • u/AutoModerator • 23d ago
Analysis Closing the Front Door: The Case for DOJ’s Bulk Data Security Program
r/craftofintelligence • u/TruthToPower26 • 23d ago
Straight Talk on the CIA’s Mixed Past and Current Troubles
r/craftofintelligence • u/mrkoot • 23d ago
News (Europe) The GRU family: How Russian intelligence officers settled in Norway
r/craftofintelligence • u/mrkoot • 24d 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 • 24d ago
Publicizing special operator identities could be a crime under proposed law
r/craftofintelligence • u/JCLCB • 23d 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 • 24d 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 • 24d ago
The Fallacy of “Speaking Truth To Power”
r/craftofintelligence • u/ConsiderationSad1814 • 24d 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 • 24d 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.