The Rise of the Albanian Mafia - a brand new video series coming soon to the Intelligence Fusion YouTube channel. From the beginnings of Albanian organised crime following the collapse of communism in the 1990s, to the markets they now dominate across Europe in the present day, we look at their activities across the continent, and how they have grown to become one of the most significant players in transnational organised crime. Subscribe now to be the first to see brand new episodes each week: https://hubs.ly/Q01yCpnl0 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information ..read more

Join the discussion in the Intelligence Fusion OSINT community, exclusive to Discord: https://hubs.ly/Q01k6Qyv0 ---- How successful has Iranian foreign policy been in recent years? From Iran's alliance with Russia leading it to becoming involved in the war in Ukraine through the supply of drones and other weaponry, to closer to home, where Iran seeks to project power into the wider region such as supporting Houthi rebels in Yemen or Hezbollah in Lebanon, we take a look at understanding Iranian foreign policy, what it hopes to achieve, and whether it has been a success for Iran's regime. To do ..read more

What can the conflicts that we’ve witnessed in Iraq, Libya, Nagorno Karabakh, Syria, and even Ukraine, teach us about the evolution of conflict in recent years?  In the latest episode of our threat intelligence podcast, The Roundtable, we discuss how war and conflict have changed and address key issues including: Do tanks have a place on the modern battlefield? Are drones evolutionary or revolutionary? How is OSINT changing conflict? What is the impact of a changing naval strategy? Is the west prepared for conflict moving forward? Thanks to our Intelligence Analysts, Max Taylor, Matt Pr ..read more

While global headlines are dominated by the ongoing tensions between Ukraine and Russia and the ongoing armed conflict in Ukraine’s Donbas region, there are a number of other armed conflicts to track in 2022 that are perhaps further out of the spotlight. In the third episode of The Roundtable intelligence podcast, our analysts sit down to discuss six of these conflicts, hoping to shed some light on the wars taking place outside of the headlines. While this means we won’t be discussing conflicts like Ukraine or Myanmar in this episode, we have written extensively on both of these conflicts. If ..read more

In September 2021, Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States of America signed an agreement aimed at strengthening military capabilities in the Pacific region, quickly becoming known as the AUKUS agreement. The immediate headlines resulting from this agreement were focussed on the announcement that the UK would be providing nuclear submarines to Australia - much to the consternation of France - but the pact is about much more than just submarines. In this second episode of The Roundtable, Senior Regional Analyst for Asia, Max Taylor, is joined by former Australian Intelligence Corps ..read more

How are wars won in the modern era? As Ukraine’s counteroffensive reports significant gains, especially in its Kharkiv offensive, we look at the concept of a decisive battle, and whether it is possible in the modern era - or what a decisive battle might look like if so.  Recorded in two parts, and covering past conflicts from the modern era including the Vietnam War, the First Gulf War and the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, and the recent Nagorno-Karabakh War, Intelligence Fusion analysts Matt Pratten, Alex Smith and Max Taylor explore the ideas of and differences between a tactical and strategi ..read more

In this episode of The Roundtable, our intelligence analysts - who specialise in the security situations of Asia, Africa and the Americas - take a closer look at their regions to understand which countries could be most heavily affected by the fuel shortages and growing food crisis across the world.  Selecting a handful of countries or subregions as case studies, the team explore how different nations and their governments will respond to the Russia-Ukraine conflict and the consequent soaring prices of food and fuel, particularly in areas of existing instability, economic hardship and con ..read more

What can the conflicts that we’ve witnessed in Iraq, Libya, Nagorno Karabakh, Syria, and even Ukraine, teach us about the evolution of conflict in recent years?  In the latest episode of our threat intelligence podcast, The Roundtable, we discuss how war and conflict have changed and address key issues including: Do tanks have a place on the modern battlefield? Are drones evolutionary or revolutionary? How is OSINT changing conflict? What is the impact of a changing naval strategy? Is the west prepared for conflict moving forward? Thanks to our Intelligence Analysts, Max Taylor, Matt Pr ..read more

While global headlines are dominated by the ongoing tensions between Ukraine and Russia and the ongoing armed conflict in Ukraine’s Donbas region, there are a number of other armed conflicts to track in 2022 that are perhaps further out of the spotlight. In the third episode of The Roundtable intelligence podcast, our analysts sit down to discuss six of these conflicts, hoping to shed some light on the wars taking place outside of the headlines. While this means we won’t be discussing conflicts like Ukraine or Myanmar in this episode, we have written extensively on both of these conflicts. If ..read more

In September 2021, Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States of America signed an agreement aimed at strengthening military capabilities in the Pacific region, quickly becoming known as the AUKUS agreement. The immediate headlines resulting from this agreement were focussed on the announcement that the UK would be providing nuclear submarines to Australia - much to the consternation of France - but the pact is about much more than just submarines. In this second episode of The Roundtable, Senior Regional Analyst for Asia, Max Taylor, is joined by former Australian Intelligence Corps ..read more