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Issue No. 9 — Monday 7 September 2026
Explosives in Zacatecas, tankers off Kharg, a base that no longer works, a death with no cause attached
Also this week: Mexican cartels turning to car bombs and buried devices while Mexico refuses the word terrorism, three Iranian tankers struck after US warships were targeted, a Fifth Fleet headquarters degraded beyond acknowledgement, and the counter-intelligence source who exposed an FBI chief found dead in Florida.
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Issue No. 8 — Monday 31 August 2026
A cache nobody came for, a bridge finished on one bank, two deadlines falling in September
Also this week: two pistols left in a Brandenburg forest for agents who never collected them, satellite imagery of the first North Korea–Russia road bridge, Ukraine's FP-7 ballistic missile due in combat by the end of September, and the Pentagon's Maven platform facing the same deadline.
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Issue No. 7 — Monday 24 August 2026
A saboteur consults on his own film, a pact re-arms Yemen's war, Israel and Turkey collide over Syria
Also this week: a Nord Stream sabotage suspect arrested on the set of the film about his own alleged crime, a Saudi-Turkish-Pakistani defence pact inflaming Yemen rather than ending it, and an Israeli airstrike on Syria aimed as much at Ankara as Damascus.
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Issue No. 6 — Monday 17 August 2026
Bercy counts its victims, America's water plants go manual, the Navy goes back to steam
Also this week: a tax-agency breach disclosed seven weeks after the fact, water utilities across twelve US states forced back to manual operation, the end of electromagnetic catapults on the Ford class, and a president who left Ankara in a catering truck.
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Issue No. 5 — Monday 10 August 2026
Europe ranks its own spies, Britain locks in its deterrent, FinCEN makes an example of UBS
Also this week: sixty intelligence professionals from 25 countries rate Europe's own agencies, Barrow-in-Furness secures its share of an £8.4 billion submarine commitment, and Washington fines a global bank for the AML failures that let red flags slide.
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Issue No. 4 — Monday 3 August 2026
Navy locks in undersea dominance, Chinese AI distillation, Space Force builds its training arsenal
Also this week: a $76.6 billion submarine package that buys continuous production, PLA-linked researchers distilling Western frontier models, and the simulators the Space Force still lacks.
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Issue No. 3 — Monday 27 July 2026
Beijing's data archive, Hamas builds a network in Europe, drones rewrite the special forces playbook
Also this week: an NZZ investigation traces an alleged Hamas network from Crete to Vienna, and how three years of drone saturation have redefined special operations in Ukraine.
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Issue No. 2 — Monday 20 July 2026
Widdecombe killing: counter-terror police take over — and Paris stages a record Bastille Day parade
Also this week: Elbit's plan to turn commercial ships into floating drone bases, and the “16-billion-password” story that the specialist press debunked a year ago.
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Issue No. 1 — Monday 13 July 2026
NATO summit in Ankara: Article 5 reaffirmed, Ukraine cleared to produce Patriots
Also this week: two espionage arrests in Rome, including a former Italian intelligence officer, and a major move at the head of French military intelligence.
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