Source Files · Files collected October 5 to 11, 2026
This edition spans from the roots of domestic intelligence fusion to the frontier risks of AGI and quantum cryptography, with grounded case studies on defense industrial dependence, veteran care, and election security. Together they show how old lessons in interagency collaboration still inform the newest technological and policy challenges facing defense practitioners.
1. Infinite Potential: Insights from the European Games: After-Action Report from a Sequence of Day After Artificial General Intelligence Exercises
RAND Corporation · 33 pages · AGI and security
A RAND after-action report synthesizing 17 scenario-based exercises on AGI's implications for Europe. It maps the new capabilities and playbooks Europe needs for AGI-driven crises before they arrive. Headline finding: AGI poses significant challenges to crisis deterrence, defense, and attribution, requiring new capabilities and playbooks for effective response. (p. 6)
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2. Terrorism Early Warning and Intelligence Fusion for Preventing
IJPS Journal · 13 pages · May 1, 2025 · Intelligence fusion
An analysis of the Los Angeles Terrorism Early Warning Group as a model for intelligence fusion against violent extremism. It documents a working template for interagency, cross-jurisdictional intelligence sharing still cited for counterterrorism design. Headline finding: The LA TEW adapted military Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield into Intelligence Preparation for Operations, providing a structured analytical process for civil threat assessment. (p. 6)
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The two files above are free. The next four are where this week gets interesting.
3. Defense Industry Cooperation as an Instrument of Indonesia–Türkiye Defense Diplomacy: A Case Study of the Harimau Medium Tank Joint Development Program (Yasin-Alsys). Which critical components still can't be made at home despite years of joint development?
4. Quantum Machine Learning Protection of Military Quantum Key Distribution Against Cryptographically Camouflaged Attacks (ARXIV). What does it take for the quantum detector itself to start missing attacks?
5. Healing Moral Injury Among Veterans: A Landscape Analysis of Community Organizations Providing Faith-Based Support (RAND). What's missing to turn ad hoc faith support into a reliable part of veteran care?
6. State and Local Role in Elections Policy: Selected Recent Developments (CRS). Why are military and overseas voters facing a new paperwork requirement this cycle?
