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

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

Zelensky rebuffs Trump’s proposal for a rapid peace deal in the Ukraine war ...

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 ...

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

Experts say the government and private sector are racing to mitigate election interference risks in the final runup to ...

Pentagon spokeswoman Sabrina Singh also said that some of the North Korean forces have already moved closer to Ukraine, and ...

Norman 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 ...

Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist for The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on topics that ranged ...

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

Prior to his appointment as a senior fellow at the Belfer Center, Mr. Rolf Mowatt-Larssen served over three years as the Director of Intelligence and Counterintelligence at the U.S. Department of ...

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