Michael S Goodman

The 2026 U.S. National Defense Strategy: Worshiping Trump and Setting…

🚨 New in KCSI Insights – "The 2026 U.S. Nation­al Defense Strat­e­gy: Wor­ship­ing Trump and Set­ting Clear Priorities" by Dr @dpoakley.bsky.social

🔗 Link: kcsi.uk/kcsi-insight...

📄 Call for papers

🙌🏼 King's Centre for the Study of Intelligence (KCSI) is delighted to partner with the Society for Intelligence History (SIH) to host the SIH Annual Conference at King's College London on October 11-13, 2026.

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𝗖𝗙𝗣: Join the 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆’s 2026 conference, hosted at King’s College London with the 𝗞𝗶𝗻𝗴’𝘀 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 kcsi.uk and the 𝗗𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗪𝗮𝗿 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 @warstudieskcl.bsky.social

𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 15, send to: SIH2026Conf@gmail.com
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🎉 Wishing everyone a joyful holiday season and a bright start to the New Year!

See you in 2026 ⭐

#KCSI

The 2025 #KCSI Holiday Book Guide is here! ✨

Old favourites, 2025 releases and what’s coming next from the 🕵️‍♀️📚 shelves.

📍 Available now via @kcsi.uk.

🎉 As nomination deadlines for the 2025 Polly Corrigan and Kjetil Hatlebrekke Book Prizes approach, 2024 Polly Corrigan Book Prize winner Dr @sophieduroy.bsky.social spoke with KCSI on receiving the prize, the inspiration behind her book, and gave some advice to this year's applicants.

How Did the C.I.A. Lose a Nuclear Device in the Himalayas? (Gift Article) A plutonium-packed generator disappeared on one of the world’s highest mountains in a covert mission that the U.S. will not talk about.

Wrote about this last year in Spying in South Asia: Britain, the United States and India's Secret Cold War (Cambridge University Press, 2024)

www.cambridge.org/9781108843676

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

‘Not your father’s Afghanistan': Is the West taking its eye off the…

🚨New publication in KCSI Insights — “‘Not your father’s Afghanistan’: Is the West taking its eye off the al-Qaeda ball?” by Graham Aikin

🔗 Link: kcsi.uk/kcsi-insight...

#KCSI

The President’s Kill List The President’s Kill List

@edinburghup.bsky.social is having a 50% off sale. This means that my The President’s Kill List is only £12.99. Bargain. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-the-pre...

CSi is happy to announce that the application process for our International Security and Intelligence (ISI) Summer Programme are now open! Click below for more information: shorturl.at/kc88o

CSi is pleased to announce that the application process for ISI Professional is now open. For more please follow this link: thecsi.org.uk/isi-pro/

Polly Corrigan Book Prize - 2025 Call for Nominations About: The Polly Corrigan Book Prize is a biennial award sponsored by The King’s Centre for Intelligence Studies (KCSI) and Intelligence and National…

kcsi.uk/polly-corrig...

A dedication to Paul Ritchie CMG OBE from the King's Centre for the…

🕯️ Remembering Paul Ritchie CMG OBE

A dedication by Dr Huw Dylan from @kcsi.uk: kcsi.uk/kcsi-insight...

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Our Publications

📄 From the impact of growing digitalisation on intelligence to Czechoslovakia’s complex relationship with Middle Eastern revolutionaries, our KCSI members have been busy with sharing their expert insights in several publications this month.

🔗 All publications can be found here: kcsi.uk/publications

🎉 Exciting news for the KCSI team

📖 Viking (@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social) has acquired “Our Man in Prague” by our Co-Director @drichterova.bsky.social

More details: www.thebookseller.com/rights/vikin...

Smart new world: adapting human intelligence for the digital age This article considers the impact of digital advances on clandestine Human Intelligence (HUMINT) operations. Despite the arrival and advancement of disruptive technologies, classical HUMINT tradecr...

🚨 Publication alert!

“Smart new world: adapting human intelligence for the digital age” by KCSI member Dr David V. Gioe, co-authored with Dr Tony Manganello of Indiana Wesleyan University.

Open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Changing Face of the Academic Study of Intelligence in the UK

🚨 New article in our KCSI Insights blog by KCSI Co-Director Prof. Michael Goodman (@msg77.bsky.social) reflecting on 'The Changing Face of the Academic Study of Intelligence in the UK'.

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IntelArchive IntelArchive ( https://intelarchive.io/ ) helps you discover publications covering a wide range of topics, from intelligence history to intelligence…

🤔 Feeling curious after this read?

👉 Check out our IntelArchive, one of the world's most comprehensive publication databases on intelligence studies:

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🔎 Times are changing — and so are we. The King’s Centre for the Study of Intelligence is now on Instagram.

Follow for insights on intelligence, security, and global affairs, plus highlights from our research, events, and teaching.

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🚨 Call for Papers 🚨
Interested in the impact of tech disruption & geopolitical shifts on intelligence practice and research? Join us at the June 2026 Intelligence College in Europe Academic Conference in Munich.
📌 Submit abstracts by 14 Nov 2025
💡 No fee, catering included
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Trump Is Breaking American Intelligence “Speak plainly!” Russian President Vladimir Putin snapped at his foreign intelligence chief, Sergei Naryshkin, at a televised security council meeting on the eve of his shambolic full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Naryshkin was visibly nervous. Once he had finally stammered out his support for recognizing the Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk as independent states—the words Putin was waiting for—he was abruptly told to sit down, like an unprepared pupil flubbing an oral exam.

Must read from General Hayden and David Gioe www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Row over damage to Iran’s nuclear programme raises questions about intelligence The truth may be out there, but the public rarely gets to see it.

A short contribution on the subject of the limitations of intelligence: theconversation.com/row-over-dam...

When Sabotage Goes Orbital: Rethinking the Russian Space Threat

🚨Publication alert🚨Next up on our Insights blog is an examination of the threat of sabotage from Russia in space by @kloosha.bsky.social:
kcsi.uk/kcsi-insight...

Quantity Has a Quality All of Its Own Since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian intelligence operations have shifted toward a mass-scale approach, focusing on sabotage, intelligence collection, and influence efforts.

New report from our member Elena Grossfeld (@kloosha.bsky.social)

'Quantity Has a Quality All of Its Own' — how Russian intelligence shifted to mass, low-cost tactics post-Ukraine invasion. Sabotage, spying & disruption at scale. What does it mean for NATO?

www.cna.org/reports/2025...

🚨Our latest Insights piece has just been published, a review of former British diplomat Tim Willasey-Wilsey's book The Spy and the Devil:
kcsi.uk/kcsi-insight...

The Kennedy Assassination Files, India, and New Insights into…

🚨Publication alert!🚨For a fascinating insight into the CIA's work in India, uncovered as part of the release of the Kennedy assassination files, take a look at our latest Insights piece by @paulmcgarr.bsky.social:
kcsi.uk/kcsi-insight...

Russia’s spies: Uncovering Russia’s secret espionage programmes Exploding weapons factories, assassination plots and fake news: Vladimir Putin’s hybrid war campaign against the West has stepped up several notches since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

📢 Join in person/online for @theguardian.com Live Events where I'll be speaking alongside christogrozev.bsky.social & @shaunwalker7.bsky.social about the UK's largest #spytrial and what it tells us about contemporary #espionage & #activemeasures.

22nd May / 19:30-21:00 / Register: shorturl.at/yY8cf

🎧 #WatchingTheJackals is now on #Audible & in other audiobook stores near you.

Many thanks to @rbmediaco.bsky.social & #GUP for bringing this to life!

@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social / @warstudieskcl.bsky.social / @kcsi.uk / @camsecurity.bsky.social

The Shallow State: Trump 2.0 is putting America’s critical intelligence liaison relationships in jeopardy In early April, Donald Trump dismissed the head of the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), Timothy Haugh, along with his deputy, following a meeting with a far-right activist who raised suspicions about the loyalty of several members of the president’s administration. This is not the first intelligence-related scandal so far during Trump’s current term. The most prominent incident involved a high-level discussion conducted via Signal chat — which, by accident, included the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. These episodes not only hinder the functioning of the U.S. intelligence community but also undermine its credibility on the global stage. Intelligence sharing among allies is a vital instrument for gaining political and military advantage, but without mutual trust, such cooperation is impossible. Nonetheless, Western intelligence agencies still have an interest in maintaining ties with their U.S. counterparts — even under Trump — writes David Gioe, a visiting professor at the Department of War Studies at King’s College London and a former CIA analyst and operations officer.

New addition

Blog post: The Shallow State: Trump 2.0 is putting America’s critical intelligence liaison relationships in jeopardy by David V. Gioe (published 23-04-2025)

https://theins.ru/en/opinion/david-gioe/280811

H-Diplo | RJISSF Roundtable 16-32 on Stout, World War I and the Foundations of American Intelligence 21 April 2025 | PDF: https://issforum.org/to/jrt16-34 | Website: rjissf.org | Twitter: @HDiplo Editor: Diane Labrosse Commissioning Editor: Sarah-Jane Corke Production Editor: Christopher Ball Pre…

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