US_ Pentagon urged to wage counterintelligence warfare against China, Russia

THE WASHINGTON TIMES 

Pentagon urged to wage counterintelligence warfare against China, Russia 

Counterspy adviser urges putting 'information warheads on enemy spy foreheads' 

The American and Chinese flags wave at Genting Snow Park ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Feb. 2, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. China has been operating a spy base in Cuba since at least 2019, as part of a global … more > 

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times - Friday, October 3, 2025 


Foreign spy services from China, Russia and elsewhere are engaged in low-level warfare targeting the U.S., and American counterspies should be “operationalized” to defeat them, according to a counterintelligence adviser to the Pentagon. 

Shane McNeil, now studying for a doctorate at the Institute of World Politics, said the U.S. government needs to stop using counterintelligence (CI) against foreign spies as a legal compliance back office. 

“In today’s battlespace, CI isn’t a support function — it’s a warfighting discipline,” Mr. McNeil, a counterintelligence adviser to the military’s Joint Staff at the Pentagon, stated in an online article. 

If the Pentagon wants to survive a war with a nation such as China, “it needs to start thinking of counterintelligence not as a protective layer but as an offensive tool — one capable of achieving real effects,” he stated in the article made public last month. 

“In other words, we need to start putting information warheads on enemy spy foreheads,” he wrote. 

Foreign intelligence services, including China’s Ministry of State Security and Russia’s GRU military spy agency, are not simply collecting secrets. They are conducting military operations to shape the battlespace in preparation for future crises or conflict. 

“Chinese and Russian intelligence campaigns aren’t isolated intrusions; they’re strategic efforts to undermine the United States through sabotage, influence, supply chain compromise and cognitive manipulation,” Mr. McNeil said. “This is unrestricted warfare, and CI needs to respond in kind — not reactively, but offensively.” 

The comments from the Pentagon adviser come as Rep. Rick Crawford, chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, is promoting legislation to require major changes to what he called a “disjointed” American counterintelligence system. 

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