title: Intelligence &amp; the Russo-Ukrainian war: introduction to the special issue
abstract: launched a full-scale military invasion of neighbouring Ukraine, having amassed some 150,000 troops along its border, launching a war of territorial conquest that seemed a throwback to the European experience of war in the 1940s while at the same time ushering in a new era in European security.From an intelligence perspective, the war has involved a coalescence of traditional intelligence aims alongside innovative means of realising them, and of traditional participants in the shadow war alongsi
journal: Intelligence & National Security