Former Assistant Director of CIA for South and Central Asia Dave Pitts on why gray zone activities pose a serious national ...

From Taiwan to the Baltic Sea, undersea cables are under attack in apparent acts of sabotage by U.S. adversaries.

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Amb. DeTrani: That China and the U.S. realize that there are a myriad of global security issues on which we can and should ...

SPECIAL REPORT – In the waning days of 2024, The Cipher Brief asked members of our expert network to look to the year ahead, ...

Our Senior Cyber and Tech Analyst, Ken Hughes, on what to watch for in the year ahead, from cybersecurity to artificial ...

Despite its flaws, Fisher’s Hidden Costs of Freedom is an important contribution to the intelligence literature. It adds a missing piece to CIA’s early development and may inform policymakers and ...

Europe must carefully choose its next steps regarding Ukraine amid a new administration in Washington and an emboldened Putin.

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Brian Bonner, former head of the Kyiv Post, offers a path for the incoming Trump administration to help Ukraine emerge victorious.

A former Senior CIA Officer on the latest Ukrainian push in Russia's Kursk region and what it means for the wider war.

A long-time intelligence and technology expert worries that bureaucracy and a failure of imagination are a national security ...