A PERSONAL MESSAGE / OPINION — In this space that’s normally reserved for world-class reporting and analysis of global security issues, we thought we’d do something different this Thanksgiving weekend ...

The Biden administration is spending its final weeks racing aid to Ukraine. Will it make a difference in the war?

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 ...

For years, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has tried and failed at all sorts of half-baked schemes to ...

EXPERT INTERVIEW — Deep in the Baltic Sea, two undersea fiber-optic telecommunications cables — linking Finland to Germany and Sweden to Lithuania — were ...

President-elect Donald Trump will face a much-changed Middle East — marked by two wars, a weaker Iran, and emerging tech ...

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 ...

Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion, a special Cipher Brief report uses data to take stock of the war.

The damage to Hamas and Hezbollah has altered the landscape of the Middle East. Experts say that may bring danger - or a ...

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 ...

John Nixon was a senior leadership analyst with the CIA from 1998 to 2011. He did several tours in Iraq and was recognized by a number of federal agencies for his contribution to the war effort.

Former Cipher Brief Expert David S. Cohen is currently serving as Deputy Director, CIA. Cohen previously served as Deputy Director, CIA from 2015 to 2017. Cohen has also served in the Treasury ...