Elaine Shannon, contributing editor at The Cipher Brief, is a former correspondent for Time and Newsweek. Her latest book is ...

Vice Admiral Frank Whitworth on why - for all the advances of AI-driven systems and other new technologies - people are still ...

Former CIA analyst Steven Ward on whether Iran's recent failures to counter Israeli attacks will spark reform in the country's intelligence services.

More than two and a half years after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s economy shows surprising resilience.

If the numbers are what they are, then we need to man SOF (Special Operations Forces) to the numbers we can man to [...] More ...

How Xi’s Marxist Nationalism is Shaping China and the World By Kevin Rudd / Oxford University Press Reviewed by: Jean-Thomas Nicole The [...] More ...

China is courting Thailand. Former Deputy Director of CIA for Digital Innovation Jennifer Ewbank weighs in on why the relationship matters.

Russia, Iran, China and North Korea — the so-called Axis of Authoritarians — are aligning to challenge the West and change the world order.

Roule is a geopolitical and energy consultant who served for 34 years in the Central Intelligence Agency, managing numerous programs relating to Iran and the Middle East. As NIM-I at ODNI, he was ...

Rob Dannenberg served as chief of operations for CIA’s Counterterrorism Center, chief of the Central Eurasia Division and chief of the Information Operations Center before retiring from the Agency. He ...

At a moment when competition with China tops the list of concerns for the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC), the man in charge ...

Jean-Thomas Nicole, Policy Advisor with Public Safety Canada, reviews On Freedom by Timothy Snyder in The Cipher Brief.