The start of a piece by Simon Winchester in the NY Times Book Review: Thirty-one years ago, while on a railway journey between London and Hong Kong, I stopped off in Mongolia and to a briefly illus…
Source: Mark Collins – The Foreign Office in 1985 (and the Trans-Siberian)
A tweet: Brits rather punching above their weight. Mark Collins, a prolific Ottawa blogger, is a Fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute; he tweets @Mark3Ds
Source: Mark Collins – International Arms Trade: Look Ma! No Canada
The Economist focuses almost solely on the US and UK amongst Western countries (several graphics): Special report: Espionage Espionage Shaken and stirred Technology Tinker, tailor, hacker, spy Gove…
Source: Mark Collins – Spookery Today, Especially SIGINT and Cyber Stuff
Further to this post, The Lions’s Cyber Roar: UK Getting Really Serious, Unlike Canada the head of Britain’s domestic intelligence service gives an unprecedented interview: MI5 head: ‘increas…
Source: Mark Collins – MI5 Chief Highlights Big Bear Spooky and Cyber Threats, Jihadis
Further to this post, Canada: “Time to get serious about cyber security” compare us with the Brits: UK in $2.3 bn plan to ‘strike back’ at hackers [including states] Finance minister Ph…
Source: Mark Collins – The Lions’s Cyber Roar: UK Getting Really Serious, Unlike Canada
The table of contents: Message from the Editor by DAVID BERCUSON Brexit, the Anglosphere and Canada by JULIAN LINDLEY-FRENCH The Obama Moment—Defence Spending Does Matter, eh! by ALAN STEPHENSON A…
Source: Mark Collins – Fall 2016 Issue of CGAI’s “The Dispatch”
Dismal, dismal, dismal (Neil Young in mind)–assuming the Rising Sun is Western–a tweet: Mark Collins, a prolific Ottawa blogger, is a Fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute; he…
Source: Mark Collins – Forget Brexit, Western Economic Growth Sucks
It’s a brave new espionage world: MI6 to recruit hundreds more staff in response to digital technology Worldwide intelligence agencies increasingly rely upon internet and social media rather …
Source: Mark Collins – MI6: UK HUMINT Spooks Going Cyber, Including Social Media
A paper very much worth the read by Prof. Craig Forcese of the University of Ottawa–it includes an interesting discussion of CSIS’ legislatively clarified and expanded mandate to operat…
Further to this post (note second comment), UK Internal Diplomacy Pre-Iraq Invasion 2003 a letter at the London Review of Books: Failures at the Foreign Office I was employed by the Foreign and Com…
Source: Mark Collins – The 2003 Iraq Invasion and the Decline of the UK Foreign Office
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