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

Tim Willasey-Wilsey served for over 27 years in the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office and is now Visiting Professor of War Studies at King’s College, London. His first overseas posting was in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kelton retired from CIA as a senior executive with 34 years of experience in intelligence operations. He is a partner at the FiveEyes Group; a member of the Board of Trustees of Valley Forge Military ...

Dr. Samantha Ravich is the chair of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. She serves on the U.S. Secret Service’s Cyber Investigation Advisory ...

Dr. Michael Vickers served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence from 2011 to 2015, the Chief Executive Officer of the Defense Intelligence Enterprise, an $80 billion, 180,000-person, ...

Steven Ward Steven Ward View Articles Former Senior Analyst, CIA Steven R. Ward is a retired CIA intelligence analyst and consultant who specializes in Middle East security affairs. He is the author ...

Karyn Eliot is a retired CIA senior executive with extensive experience in US national security science and technology programs, intelligence operations, acquisitions, policy, and strategic industry ...

Sigurd Neubauer is a senior analyst at SOS International, a U.S. defense consultancy, and a Non-Resident Fellow at Gulf International Forum. His expertise includes U.S. policy towards the Arabian ...

OPINION — The lightning speed with which Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, toppled the brutal Assad regime in Syria signaled the demise of global Islamic jihad, the rise of territorial political Islam, ...

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