You are here

Defence`s Feeds

Europe/Saudi Arabia : UP42 sale gives Airbus breathing space in Riyadh and at home

Intelligence Online - Tue, 10/12/2024 - 06:00
Neo Space Group (NSG)'s purchase of Airbus Group's UP42 platform, as announced on 3 December, fills a very important political [...]
Categories: Defence`s Feeds

United Kingdom : No report from UK parliamentary intelligence committee after another disrupted year

Intelligence Online - Tue, 10/12/2024 - 06:00
December is traditionally a good time to present reports, but the UK parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) is conspicuously [...]
Categories: Defence`s Feeds

France/Saudi Arabia/UAE : Political turmoil in France puts brakes on Rafale prospecting in the Gulf

Intelligence Online - Tue, 10/12/2024 - 06:00
Paris and Abu Dhabi have for weeks been discussing the Emirates' possible purchase of another batch of Rafale fighter jets [...]
Categories: Defence`s Feeds

France : Intelligence memos and grey zones before French courts

Intelligence Online - Mon, 09/12/2024 - 06:00
The French Ministry of the Interior regularly rejects French nationality applications from foreign nationals living in France, on the grounds that they are not "loyal" to the country. Chinese, Russian, Colombian, Kurdish and Algerian citizens have all faced rejection on this basis. The refusal is based on memos from the French domestic intelligence service (DGSI), which allege, for example, close links with a foreign intelligence service, but without giving any further details. French courts are thus becoming increasingly fussy about the content of those memos. [...]
Categories: Defence`s Feeds

United States : Intelligence community split over Congressional hearings on terrorism threat

Intelligence Online - Mon, 09/12/2024 - 06:00
The postponement until further notice of the annual hearings devoted to global threats to US territory has shown up diverging approaches on the part of the government agencies concerned at a time of heightened political tension. Although the respective heads [...]
Categories: Defence`s Feeds

Iran : Iran shows off ‘combat-proven' weapons at Pakistan defence fair

Intelligence Online - Mon, 09/12/2024 - 06:00
It's one of the very few places where a Western military officer could have a conversation, and a courteous one [...]
Categories: Defence`s Feeds

Russia/UAE : Former EN+ president resurfaces in Dubai backing litigation finance firm

Intelligence Online - Mon, 09/12/2024 - 06:00
The former president of Russian aluminium group EN+, Maxim Sokov, has been supporting a Dubai-based litigation funding startup led by [...]
Categories: Defence`s Feeds

China/France/Russia/United States : Moscow's Bashkir recruits, police intel focus on terrorism, Guoanbu and social media, ODNI's Russia division

Intelligence Online - Mon, 09/12/2024 - 06:00
Russia - Kremlin sends ever more Bashkir men to war to avoid general mobilisationThe war in Ukraine is being sorely [...]
Categories: Defence`s Feeds

United Kingdom : SatVu is last chance saloon for British defence and intelligence space industry

Intelligence Online - Mon, 09/12/2024 - 06:00
The arrival of a new investment fund, Spanish-Luxembourg firm Adara Ventures has allowed Satellite Vu (SatVu) to round off 2024 [...]
Categories: Defence`s Feeds

China/France : Court highlights glaring errors in French intelligence service note on Chinese company

Intelligence Online - Mon, 09/12/2024 - 06:00
Although the court's ruling was couched in relatively moderate terms, the note produced by the French domestic intelligence agency DGSI [...]
Categories: Defence`s Feeds

France : French former spy boss joins BPCE banking group as security chief

Intelligence Online - Mon, 09/12/2024 - 06:00
Seven months after his farewell to arms, General Nicolas Le Nen will take up the newly-created post of director of security [...]
Categories: Defence`s Feeds

Europe : EU intelligence reorganises and adapts to hybrid threats

Intelligence Online - Fri, 06/12/2024 - 06:00
The European Union Military Staff (EUMS) is radically reforming its intelligence directorate, known as EUMS INT. The stated aim is to strengthen its [...]
Categories: Defence`s Feeds

United States : Private security firms in fratricidal battle before Texas courts

Intelligence Online - Fri, 06/12/2024 - 06:00
Private security company Surefox North America (Surefox NA), headed by army veterans Brian Sweigart and Joshua Szott, lodged a complaint [...]
Categories: Defence`s Feeds

Bangladesh : Abdul Quayyum Mollah, an officer caught in the turmoil of a post-revolution intelligence agency

Intelligence Online - Fri, 06/12/2024 - 06:00
Major General Abdul Quayyum Mollah has been in a somewhat precarious position ever since he was appointed head of Bangladesh's [...]
Categories: Defence`s Feeds

China : Xi Jinping dreams of a global private security network to protect Chinese interests

Intelligence Online - Fri, 06/12/2024 - 06:00
The decision by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to strengthen the presence of private security contractors in Pakistan (IO, 15/11/24) [...]
Categories: Defence`s Feeds

United Kingdom : Unwitting 'journalist-consultant' caught up in Audere's Maltese healthcare and Conservative concierge probes

Intelligence Online - Fri, 06/12/2024 - 06:00
The management at investigations and private security operator Audere Group is currently in dispute with one of its former sources. [...]
Categories: Defence`s Feeds

France/Indonesia : French contract success subsides as Indonesia diversifies defence options

Intelligence Online - Fri, 06/12/2024 - 06:00
As we understand from sources in Jakarta, the new Indonesian president, Prabowo Subianto, is about to award a contract to [...]
Categories: Defence`s Feeds

Video of a committee meeting - Thursday, 5 December 2024 - 08:00 - Subcommittee on Security and Defence

Length of video : 100'

Disclaimer : The interpretation of debates serves to facilitate communication and does not constitute an authentic record of proceedings. Only the original speech or the revised written translation is authentic.
Source : © European Union, 2024 - EP

Europe/Russia : Nord Stream shareholders still in the dark over sabotage

Intelligence Online - Thu, 05/12/2024 - 06:00
The sophisticated operation to blow up the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 undersea gas pipelines at a depth of 80 metres on 26 September 2022 (IO, 26/09/23) was carried out by a ragtag team of patriotic Ukrainians, according [...]
Categories: Defence`s Feeds

UAE : Sprawling Abu Dhabi airport dispute comes to a head as arbitration decisions released

Intelligence Online - Thu, 05/12/2024 - 06:00
Decisions are emerging from a wave of secret arbitration disputes stemming from the 2021 cancellation of a contract for the [...]
Categories: Defence`s Feeds

Pages