OPINION – “I think the thing that’ll be really important is how you make them [new unmanned aircraft], because this is another thing the [Pentagon] acquisition system doesn’t do. It thinks about the ...

Brian Bonner joined The Cipher Brief in March 2024. He led the Kyiv Post, Ukraine's English-language newspaper, from ...

VADM Kevin Donegan (Ret.) warns that the U.S. has a window of time to force real change in The Middle East, exclusively in The Cipher Brief ...

Ambassador Boucher served 32 years at the U.S. Department of State, including roles as Ambassador to Cyprus, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asia, and Spokesman for six different Secretaries ...

From Ukraine to Russia, the Middle East to China – how the Trump-Vance administration may handle global challenges ...

Former Asst. Director of CIA for South and Central Asia Dave Pitts weighs in on the danger of strategic surprise amid transition.

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The author argues that the intelligence community must fix cognitive shortcomings of traditional analysis for today's chaotic world?

A dozen member of The Cipher Brief network offer advice to president-elect Trump on dealing with a "dangerous world." ...

It was, as Axios reporter Zachary Basu put it, “the most astonishing, gravity-defying comeback in the history of American ...

DEEP DIVE — Throughout Election Day and a long election night, one major story had nothing to do with the results at the ...