In this latest installment of our “Memos to 47” series, Douglas Lute, a former U.S. Ambassador to NATO, looks at the Ukraine war – in particular, the steady but (in his view) too-slow pace of American ...

A review of a year filled with headlines that few in the national security and intelligence space could have imagined, one ...

Former Senior CIA Officer Ralph Goff discusses the Baltic States' fears about Russia's creeping influence across Eastern ...

An end-of-year roundup of recommendations, many from Cipher Brief experts, from our "Under Cover" Book Review series.

AI holds huge promise for medicine. It could also be used to make a bioweapon. Experts warn there are not enough guards ...

Rear Admiral Mike Studeman sees a multi-pronged 'silent invasion' from China -- and offers thoughts on what the US should do ...

DEEP DIVE — Amid all the uncertainty that has followed the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, one issue ranks highest for the ...

Can a state-centered ideological political agenda in Syria — instead of a violent global jihadist one — succeed after years of dictatorship?

The spate of drone sightings may pose no threat -- but a Cipher Brief expert says they carry a message: the US needs better drone defenses.

Some of the authors he writes about were established novelists before the start of the war. Graham Greene, Peter Fleming and ...

Gary Grappo, a former U.S. Amabssador to Oman, offers ways the Trump administration could respond to the seismic changes to the Middle East.

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