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A Case Officer’s Elegy For Sarajevo

A Thriller of Love and EspionageBy H.K. Roy / Manhattan Book GroupReviewed by: Kenneth DeklevaThe Reviewer — Dr. Kenneth Dekleva served as a Regional Medical Officer/Psychiatrist with the U.S.
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The Thirteenth Mile: This Is What Gray Zone War Looks Like

On the morning of October 23, the cargo ship Khoryv sent a distress call 13 nautical miles off Constanța, Romania. Territorial waters end at twelve. Whoever flew the drone that sank her knew where the ...
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F-35 Fallacy: Jets Alone Will Not Save Us

NATO Allies have bet the future of European skies on the world’s most sophisticated combat aircraft. NATO Allies are buying the world's most advanced fighter but many are neglecting vital investments ...
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Canada’s Top Soldier: Too Many Missions, Too Few Resources

A SOLDIER’S JOURNEYBy Wayne Eyre / Simon & SchusterReviewed by: Jean-Thomas NicoleThe Reviewer: Jean-Thomas Nicole is a Policy Advisor with Public Safety Canada. The opinions expressed are those of ...
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The Challenge of History: Terrorism in Canada

Steve Hewitt/ McGill-Queen's University PressReviewed by: Jean-Thomas NicoleThe Reviewer Jean-Thomas Nicole is a Policy Advisor with Public Safety Canada. The opinions expressed are those of the ...
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Global Intelligence Report for Tuesday, October 27, 2026

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The Terms We Must Set

On October 15, a Vietnamese state-owned tanker, the PVT Azura, departed St. Petersburg with 109,000 barrels of Russian diesel ...
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The Command We Must Start

In 1928, Secretary of War Dwight Davis ordered the Army to assemble an experimental mechanized force of tanks, armored cars, and motorized infantry at Camp Meade, Maryland. It was disbanded within ...
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Through Churchill’s lens: Kennedy’s self-creation into Greatness

How JFK’s Obsession with Winston Churchill Defined His PresidencyBy Joel Nelson/ Public Affairs, New YorkReviewed by: Jean-Thomas NicoleThe Reviewer: Jean-Thomas Nicole is a Policy Advisor with Public ...
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The Intelligence Community’s Missing Discipline

Economic statecraft has become a primary instrument of US national security, deployed with a frequency and ambition that outpaces the intelligence architecture built to support it. For sanctions, ...
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We’re Losing the Cognitive Space Race

Over the last century, modern medicine achieved a historic feat. We increased the human lifespan by 33%. But at the same time, we completely failed to defend our brain healthspan. Today, a silent gap ...
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Dr. Geoffrey Ling

Dr. Geoffrey Ling, MD, PhD, is a retired U.S. Army colonel, neurologist, and former founding director of DARPA's Biological Technologies Office who now co-leads The BrainHealth Project to advance ...