Tag: Intelligence
Intelligence Rearmament Spreads as States Prepare for Conflict
Sweden is creating an independent civilian foreign intelligence service. Japan is establishing a central intelligence bureau and proposing its first standalone postwar foreign-intelligence agency. Germany is debating powers that could take its foreign intelligence agency beyond gathering information and into sabotage, cyber disruption and, only in a constitutionally declared state…
Sweden Builds New Spy Agency for 2027
Sweden's government has formally submitted the legislation needed to stand up its new foreign intelligence service by January 1, 2027, a step framed as a structural response to a security environment reshaped by NATO membership rather than a routine bureaucratic reshuffle. Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard, writing in a Foreign…
Japan Builds First Postwar Intelligence Agency
Japan is building its first centralized intelligence agency since World War II, launching a National Intelligence Bureau this summer with roughly 700 staff under a council chaired by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, according to The New York Times.That structural phase, passed by the Diet in May, is the easier half…
