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Intelligence Brief

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Canadian Intelligence Briefs provide high level strategic environmental awareness by Canadian Intelligence professionals for those with Canadian security responsibilities.

They focus on an array of “over the horizon” global and domestic issues with an emphasis on linkages to potential outcomes and impacts on Canada's National Security interests and assets.

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The Enemy in the Blanket: Are Iranian Sleeper Agents the Real Problem Here?

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Dire Strait: Standoff at the World’s Oil Chokepoint

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Mexico: The Death of a Drug Trafficker

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No Direction Home: What ISIS Detainees Are Telling Us About The Future

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Gimme Shelter Golden Visas, Golden Passports, and High Net Worth Individuals

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Ask Not What Your Country Can Do For You: Hostage-Taking, Ransom, and Duty of Care

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Maduro’s Oil

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The Philippines on the Front Line

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Atlas Shrugs: The 2025 US National Security Strategy

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Pirates of the Caribbean: Venezuela, the United States, and Us

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Rearming the North: Canada’s Defence Investment and the New Strategic Economy

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Roll On Columbia North American Strategic Resources (2) Water

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“To Have and to Have Not” North American Strategic Resources (1): Energy and Rare Earth Elements

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Come Fly With Me: Jamming, Spoofing, and the Threat to Commercial Aviation

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The Strange Afterlife of Charlie Kirk

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Say Goodbye, It’s Liberation Day: India’s Choice

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Telling the Players Without a Scorecard: North Korea’s Fraudulent Remote Worker Scheme

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India, Modi and Mamdani: Why Canada Needs to Pay Attention

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By Hook or by Crook: Canada’s Hikvision ban is a positive step to counter the Chinese technology threat

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Leopards and Their Spots: The Problem of Syria

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“One Ring to Rule Them All”: the Weaponization of ICE

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A Target Rich Environment

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Mission Creep: Western Activists Pivot to Iran

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A Matter of Trust: The US Intelligence Community and Us

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Burning Down the House: The US Intelligence Community and Us

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Gaza: You Say You Want a Revolution

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Reaching For the Beaufort Sea: the Arctic, Canada, America…and Others.

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Shuttered: USAID and the Geopolitics of Foreign Aid

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If You’re Travelling in the North Country Fair

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Brave New Syria

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