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 ...

CISA Director Jen Easterly said China’s cyberattacks seek to cause ‘societal panic’ in the event of a US-China war ...

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

CYBER INTERVIEW – National Security Agency (NSA) Director General Timothy Haugh said Thursday that U.S. cyber defenses didn’t ...

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

A Cipher Brief expert with deep experience in the Middle East sees both danger and an "extraordinary opportunity" in the wake ...

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.

The Assad regime's stunning fall from power will bring opportunity and risk to one of the most important nations in the ...

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