Behind the scenes photo of the #Cyber Handbook dream team, moments before the official launch of the project!

#CyCon #CyCon 2024

Thank you, DVP! Would love to come to ISGA The Hague to present! Well-placed sources suggest the book will be out in January 2025, so anytime after that would be fantastic.🙌

Thank you Magda Long for being my sanity checker in the final write-up stages. Hopefully the rest of #Watchingthejackals will be equally gripping as the bits your read. If not, there are always the photos: #Arafat #Habash #CarlostheJackal #AbuDaoud & many more.🕵️‍♀️

It’s a decade since the annexation of Crimea, which prompted a wave of academic & policy thinking on hybrid warfare & “cross-domain” deterrence. But now we have an actual sabotage & active measures campaign across Europe, we don’t seem equipped to respond in coherent fashion.

Many 🙏 to Engelsberg Ideas for publishing my piece 'Robert Fico's reckoning' on the recent #assassination attempt on #Slovak PM. I argue this was a #greyswan event - the result of long-brewing tensions in 🇸🇰 politics & society King's College London War Studies engelsbergideas.com/notebook/rober…

Many 🙏 for this brilliant programme👏 Gordon Corera & BBC Radio 4. This is going on the 'reading list' of King's College London War Studies MA in Intelligence & International Security. Also flagging it up here for recent #KCLMAIIS alumni interested in #China #intelligence #espionage .

Why are people motivated to become #clandestine #intelligence #agents ? The textbook answer is usually Money, Ideology, Compromise (or Coercion/blackmail) or Ego (colloquially grouped as 'MICE'). A thread based on this case: abc.net.au/news/2024-05-1… King's Centre for the Study of Intelligence (KCSI) International Security and Intelligence

Slovak PM shot after cabinet meeting. First assassination attempt at sitting politician in post-Cold War Slovak history. Things did get messy quicker than anticipated.

My newest piece, an article honouring the legacy of Professor Yoram Dinstein, explores the legal justification for the separation between the jus in bello ( #IHL ) and the jus ad bellum (law on the use of force), as well as some of its legal consequences: lieber.westpoint.edu/separation-bet…

The KCL/The Cambridge Security Initiative (CSi) International Security and Intelligence summer #intelligence program now has a full cohort of amazing students. Congrats to those accepted! If you're thinking abt ISI 2025, express interest here:
thecsi.org.uk/isi-applicatio… Michael Goodman War Studies King's Centre for the Study of Intelligence (KCSI) Dr Daniela Richterova Security Studies

Congratulations, Elena!

Thanks Cambridge University Press for doing such a fantatstic job with Spying in South Asia. Always a thrill to hold a physical copy of your book. And this one is a steal at £30. Available now to pre-order. There's a great companion volume too 🙂 King's Centre for the Study of Intelligence (KCSI) War Studies

Pleased to see that my recent Foreign Affairs article with Michael Morell on 'strategic declassification' is getting media coverage. We argue there are rewards, but the risks warrant guiderails. War Studies Security Studies Hayden Center Cambridge Intelligence Seminar
theguardian.com/us-news/articl…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has demonstrated a preoccupation with Russians who join the other side—and his open use and threat of assassination resembles Stalin’s approach to defectors, write Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan.
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Very many congratulations 🎉🎊 to the fantastic Elena Grossfeld Elena Grossfeld War Studies King's College London for publishing this excellent piece!

“Like many fellow KGB veterans who lived through the collapse of the Soviet Union, Putin retains a keen sense of the fragility of the Russian state.”

Read Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan on the Kremlin’s ongoing campaign against defectors:
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Very many 🙏 to King's College London War Studies Visiting Profs Sir David Omand & John Taylor for expertly leading the 'Surviving the Intelligence Cycle' exercise - run jointly w/Dr Hillary Briffa for MAs in Intel and International Security & National Security Studies. King's Centre for the Study of Intelligence (KCSI) Centre for Grand Strategy