Global Threat Report

Your weekly brief keeping you in front of emerging global risk.

Power Realignments and Escalation Across Five Theatres

Disclaimer All insights in this report are derived from adversarial OSINT and primary reporting in the attached ALCON situation updates. Content reflects foreign and regional source claims to ensure a comprehensive, non-Western-aligned situational picture. Hey team, Global flashpoints are tighten...

Oct 29, 2025

Contours of Competition: States Reposition Across Theatres

Disclaimer All insights in this report are derived from adversarial OSINT and primary reporting within ALCON Intelligence Summaries. Content reflects foreign and multi-source claims intended to present a non-Western-aligned situational picture. Hey team, Regional flashpoints remain active across...

Oct 15, 2025

Global Threat Report | 08 October 2026

Hi team, Plenty is moving across the map this week. From PLA aircraft pushing deeper into Taiwan’s airspace to debates in Europe over Tomahawk transfers and a new wave of US counter-cartel strikes off Venezuela, each region is setting its own tempo. The pace of manoeuvre, policy, and messaging is...

Oct 08, 2025

Global Threat Report | Developments in the Indo-Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East

Hey team, This report examines current security trajectories across three theatres using open-source information and adversarial channels. It situates recent maritime coercion in the Taiwan Strait, Russian operational patterns in Ukraine, and Iran’s evolving nuclear posture within broader strateg...

Sep 24, 2025

Global Threat Report | Regional Pressure Points in Focus

Hello everyone! We’ve shifted the format of this report to break things down by geographic region. Instead of the usual DIME structure, this update looks at the Indo-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, the Americas, and Africa. This change makes it easier to track where pressure points are building...

Sep 17, 2025

Global Threat Report | Israel Expands Strikes, BRICS Pushes Multipolar Order, US Indicators in Caribbean

Hey team, Mainstream media only tell half the story. Away from the mainstream headlines, new alliances are forming, militaries are shifting gears, and influence campaigns are running hard. The picture that emerges from adversarial channels is one of pressure points building fast across multiple f...

Sep 09, 2025

Inside the Adversary

Hey team, Plenty of things to discuss in the headlines this week, but the real events are happening in places most people aren’t looking. Peace talks are moving quietly, cyber hits are landing, and military manoeuvres are setting the pace. Here’s what matters now and what to watch in the coming d...

Sep 02, 2025

Storm Clouds Over Asia

Region Covered: East Asia (focus on Taiwan, China, Japan, Korea, Russia)Correct as at: 20 Aug 2025Information reliability: C2 (multiple reliable open‑source reports with some unverified social‑media details).Assessment window: 13–20 Aug 2025 (Pacific/Auckland timezone). Bottom Line Up Front Taiwa...

Aug 20, 2025

How ALCON stays ahead: Global Feed Review

Hi team, we're diverting from the usual this week as we really wanted to cover a great tool we've had the privilege of using. This review isn’t sponsored and there’s no commercial arrangement behind it. We’re sharing our experience purely from genuine use in live operational contexts. Over the pa...

Aug 13, 2025

Armed, Online, and Unsettled

BLUF The Indo-Pacific missile race is heating up. China’s rapid buildup is being matched by coordinated countermeasures across the region, raising the risk of escalation. Meanwhile, 2025’s cyberattacks are hitting harder, targeting everything from schools to government servers. In Ukraine, the fi...

Aug 05, 2025

Peace Talks and Proxy Wars

Jul 30, 2025

An Introduction to Emerging Threats

The international system is entering a phase defined by intensifying great-power rivalry and disruptive transnational challenges. This newsletter is dedicated to examining these emerging threats and their impact on the global order, providing sharp, realistic analysis from a Western perspective....

Jul 23, 2025