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Why foreign HUMINT collection should be left to the professionals

In the post 9/11 period a lot of agencies wanted to hone in on the collection of security intelligence: did Canada make a mistake in letting the foreign ministry do so?

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Is coastal West Africa facing an increased jihadi threat?

Why are coastal West African nations facing a growing jihadi threat and how serious could this become?

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Canadian Intelligence Eh! Perspectives

How can academe help us to understand terrorism?

How do academics and practitioners in countering terrorism get along and what are the challenges?

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Canadian Intelligence Eh! Perspectives

What is it like to write about terrorism for the news cycle?

Writing about terrorism cannot be easy given the inherent danger in going to conflict zones: so why does a Canadian journalist do it?

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What is it like to be a national security advisor?

Busy people need help understanding the torrent of information sent to them, including intelligence. That is where a national security advisor comes in.

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What is happening in France vis-a-vis terrorism?

Of all the Western nations France seems to suffer the highest level of terrorist attacks. Why is this?

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What are the repercussions of the Hamas attack and Israel’s response?

In the aftermath of the heinous attack by Hamas in Israel what next? A very good question with few answers

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Canada’s security service is the most over-regulated one in the Western world

Running an intelligence agency is not an average job one would imagine: what was it like to do so in Canada in the post Cold War/9/11 era?

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When it comes to counter-terrorism be careful whom you deal with

Several nations, especially in Africa, have engaged the Russia-based Wagner Group to do counter-terrorism ops. A good idea?

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Political agendas and intelligence practice are like oil and water

It is one thing for governments to tell their spies what they want to know: it is quite another for the former to do the latter’s job.