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Issue No. 17 — Monday 2 November 2026
A US warning puts a Moscow park on alert; Hormuz has its worst month for attacks on shipping; the US Navy's forgotten coastal force; Jordan strikes Syria
Also this week: Washington tips off Moscow about a credible threat at Tsaritsyno park; October brings a record 28 attacks on ships around Hormuz; a former US Navy captain makes the case for reviving coastal warfare units against cheap drones; and Jordan strikes southern Syria after a deadly church attack in Karak. Plus the week ahead, from the US midterms to New Zealand's election.
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Issue No. 16 — Monday 26 October 2026
Europe's nuclear powers fly together; China-linked hackers put AI to work; North Korea turns the border into a minefield
Also this week: French and British jets fly a joint simulated nuclear-strike mission for the first time; Microsoft says China-linked hackers used an AI framework, ARTEX, to breach cloud systems in under three hours; and South Korea estimates North Korea has laid 960,000 mines in the DMZ since 2024.
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Issue No. 15 — Monday 19 October 2026
Riyadh's airport reopens but business travel stalls; France counts the cost of a day of unrest; a deepfake voice costs a bank millions
Also this week: Riyadh's King Khalid airport reopens but foreign carriers stay away; a nationwide day of protest in France ends in looting and 2,397 arrests; and a cloned voice of Intesa Sanpaolo's chief executive used to obtain €95 million in transfers.
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Issue No. 14 — Monday 12 October 2026
Riyadh's airport under fire; a former German spy chief arrested; Hormuz shipping hit six times in a day
Also this week: the Houthis strike Riyadh's airport four times in five days; former BND president August Hanning arrested on suspicion of espionage; and six merchant ships hit near the Strait of Hormuz in a single day.
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Issue No. 13 — Monday 5 October 2026
An axe in the cockpit of a Gulf airliner; MI5 warns universities about a Chinese spy front; Moscow names Europe's arms factories as targets
Also this week: a flydubai co-pilot attacks his captain with the cockpit axe; MI5 names a Chinese research institute as a front for the Ministry of State Security; and Moscow calls Europe's arms factories potential military targets.
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Issue No. 12 — Monday 28 September 2026
A foiled plot at a US bomber base in England; France moves to shield Saudi oil; Washington gains new footholds in Greenland
Also this week: five men arrested over a suspected plot near RAF Fairford; France sends forces to protect Saudi Arabia's Yanbu oil hub; and a new US–Denmark–Greenland defence agreement adds two US sites in the Arctic.
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Issue No. 11 — Monday 21 September 2026
Congress and the Pentagon at odds; AI enters the weapons arsenal; Chinese espionage goes automated
Congressional frustration over the Iran war and lack of Pentagon transparency; the convergence of artificial intelligence with bioweapon development and emerging policy gaps; and how Chinese intelligence agencies are using AI to transform stolen data into actionable intelligence.
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Issue No. 10 — Monday 14 September 2026
A group that has ended, a handbook made of photo captions, a strait that changed hands, and a petrol station burning on the EU border
Also this week: twenty-five years after 9/11, the argument that core al-Qaeda ended through strategic failure and that Washington should say so; an Iran-linked actor compiling naval targeting handbooks with a commercial AI model and nothing but open sources; the Houthis taking Mokha and Perim at the mouth of the Bab el-Mandeb; and 389 drones over Russian territory in a single night.
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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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About the Briefing
The Briefing is written by Marie Mosen, a security and risk intelligence analyst with thirty years of international experience across the Middle East, Africa, Russia, Asia, the United States and New Zealand, including business and VIP aviation.
Trained in French internal security at the Université de Lorraine, a Reserve Lieutenant in the French Air and Space Force and a member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), she reads the week's defence, security and intelligence reporting in French and English, and keeps assessment separate from fact.
Available for freelance assignments: country risk assessments, pre-travel security briefings, OSINT research and due diligence.
Contact: contact@lumenaintel.com