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At the Center of the World’s Most Dangerous Chokepoint

At the Center of the World’s Most Dangerous Chokep...

2 hours ago 1

Inside Trump’s Thinking on the Iran War

Inside Trump’s Thinking on the Iran War

9 hours ago 2

Defining Victory in the Iran War

Defining Victory in the Iran War

9 hours ago 2

China's Military: Five Lessons from the Iran War

China's Military: Five Lessons from the Iran War

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How GEOINT Can Sustain US Advantages in Africa

How GEOINT Can Sustain US Advantages in Africa

4 days ago 7

The Future of War Is Now: What Washington Needs to Hear from the Battlefield

The Future of War Is Now: What Washington Needs to...

5 days ago 7

After the War and After Putin: Three Potential Succession Scenarios for Russia’s Modern Tsar

After the War and After Putin: Three Potential Suc...

5 days ago 3

America’s “Exquisite Class” Weapons Shortage

America’s “Exquisite Class” Weapons Shortage

1 week ago 5

The Drone War’s Real Problem Isn’t Technology — It’s Speed

The Drone War’s Real Problem Isn’t Technology — It...

1 week ago 6

Interceptor Math: How Iran’s Drone Swarms Strain U.S. Defenses

Interceptor Math: How Iran’s Drone Swarms Strain U...

1 week ago 7

The War’s Next Phase: Five Indicators That Matter Most

The War’s Next Phase: Five Indicators That Matter ...

1 week ago 6

Cheap Drones, Expensive Consequences: The New Economics of War

Cheap Drones, Expensive Consequences: The New Econ...

1 week ago 5

Iran: War, the Abraham Accords, and the Psychology of Its Leadership

Iran: War, the Abraham Accords, and the Psychology...

1 week ago 6

A Quiet Peace in the Caucasus Could Change the Balance of Power

A Quiet Peace in the Caucasus Could Change the Bal...

1 week ago 6

Nuclear Expansion and Conditional Diplomacy: North Korea’s New Strategy

Nuclear Expansion and Conditional Diplomacy: North...

1 week ago 6

The Constitutional and Strategic Fallout of Trump’s Strike on Iran

The Constitutional and Strategic Fallout of Trump’...

2 weeks ago 1

The Hormuz Standoff: Global Energy Flow Severs After 'Epic Fury' Strikes

The Hormuz Standoff: Global Energy Flow Severs Aft...

2 weeks ago 7

After the Strikes: Is Iran on the Brink?

After the Strikes: Is Iran on the Brink?

2 weeks ago 9

Breaking Down our "Red October" Moment for AI

Breaking Down our "Red October" Moment for AI

2 weeks ago 10

Purpose-Built or Perilous: Congress Faces a Critical FBI Headquarters Decision

Purpose-Built or Perilous: Congress Faces a Critic...

2 weeks ago 11

What the Latest Policy and Tech Shifts Mean for National Security

What the Latest Policy and Tech Shifts Mean for Na...

2 weeks ago 7

Where crime and terror meet: Australia’s illicit tobacco market

Where crime and terror meet: Australia’s illicit t...

2 weeks ago 5

Revisionist History – Aliens, Secrets and Conspiracies

Revisionist History – Aliens, Secrets and Conspira...

2 weeks ago 8

Why Russia’s War Effort Signals Strategic Decline

Why Russia’s War Effort Signals Strategic Decline

3 weeks ago 8

Building the Talent Pipeline for America’s Security Future

Building the Talent Pipeline for America’s Securit...

3 weeks ago 8

The Cognitive Battlefield is Now Decisive Terrain

The Cognitive Battlefield is Now Decisive Terrain

3 weeks ago 10

Killing Mencho

Killing Mencho

3 weeks ago 7

Tracing the Evolution of Russian Hybrid Warfare

Tracing the Evolution of Russian Hybrid Warfare

3 weeks ago 8

Evelyn Farkas on Alliances, Ukraine, and China’s Growing Challenge

Evelyn Farkas on Alliances, Ukraine, and China’s G...

3 weeks ago 10

Washington’s Venezuelan Gamble: The Old Guard’s Continued Grip on Power

Washington’s Venezuelan Gamble: The Old Guard’s Co...

3 weeks ago 7

Defending the Homeland: Pentagon Shifts Strategy on Drone Threats

Defending the Homeland: Pentagon Shifts Strategy o...

4 weeks ago 9

How Cuba's Infrastructure Crisis Is Opening the Door to Foreign Intelligence Networks

How Cuba's Infrastructure Crisis Is Opening the Do...

4 weeks ago 8

Media Literacy Isn’t Enough Anymore

Media Literacy Isn’t Enough Anymore

4 weeks ago 6

From the Monroe Doctrine to Maduro: The Precedent Problem in U.S.

From the Monroe Doctrine to Maduro: The Precedent ...

1 month ago 10

Inside the High-Stakes U.S. Pressure Campaign on Iran

Inside the High-Stakes U.S. Pressure Campaign on I...

1 month ago 8

Confidence, Interoperability, and the Limits of U.S. Decision Systems

Confidence, Interoperability, and the Limits of U....

1 month ago 7

Autonomy on the Battlefield

Autonomy on the Battlefield

1 month ago 9

Standing Up to a Spy: My Run-In with Aldrich Ames

Standing Up to a Spy: My Run-In with Aldrich Ames

1 month ago 11

Russia’s Foreign Fighter Pipeline: How Moscow Exploits Global Poverty to Feed Ukraine’s Frontlines

Russia’s Foreign Fighter Pipeline: How Moscow Expl...

1 month ago 6

After New START: America Weighs a New Nuclear Strategy

After New START: America Weighs a New Nuclear Stra...

1 month ago 12

The Former Head of NSA on the Future of U.S. Cybersecurity

The Former Head of NSA on the Future of U.S. Cyber...

1 month ago 8

Xi Jinping Tightens Grip as China’s Military Purge Deepens

Xi Jinping Tightens Grip as China’s Military Purge...

1 month ago 7

From Secrets to Sensors: Why Open Source Data Must Drive Modern Intelligence

From Secrets to Sensors: Why Open Source Data Must...

1 month ago 10

The Kremlin Files: Russian Double Agents and Operational Games

The Kremlin Files: Russian Double Agents and Opera...

1 month ago 6

EU Takes Aim at Tehran: IRGC Terror Listing Opens New Front in Europe’s Iran Policy

EU Takes Aim at Tehran: IRGC Terror Listing Opens ...

1 month ago 4

Should Western Tech Giants Partner With Pro-Hamas Network Al Jazeera?

Should Western Tech Giants Partner With Pro-Hamas ...

1 month ago 6

Inside the $35 Billion Plan to Track Hypersonic Missiles from Space

Inside the $35 Billion Plan to Track Hypersonic Mi...

1 month ago 7

The U.S.-China Economic Cold War Is No Longer Silent

The U.S.-China Economic Cold War Is No Longer Sile...

1 month ago 10

Greenland’s Worth a Fight and Russia’s Trying to Start One

Greenland’s Worth a Fight and Russia’s Trying to S...

1 month ago 8

Export Controls Backfire: The China Innovation Paradox

Export Controls Backfire: The China Innovation Par...

1 month ago 7

The Rise of China's Strategic Soft Power and its Global Impact

The Rise of China's Strategic Soft Power and its G...

1 month ago 6

America’s Intelligence Satellites are Proliferating: Their Protection is Not, With Exceptions

America’s Intelligence Satellites are Proliferatin...

1 month ago 8

The 2026 National Defense Strategy: No Surprises but Plenty of Mandate

The 2026 National Defense Strategy: No Surprises b...

1 month ago 7

China’s Stunning Military Purge – and What It Means For Taiwan

China’s Stunning Military Purge – and What It Mean...

1 month ago 7

Signs of Trouble from Venezuela's Regime Could Be Subtle at First

Signs of Trouble from Venezuela's Regime Could Be ...

1 month ago 6

Inside Trump’s New ‘Board of Peace’

Inside Trump’s New ‘Board of Peace’

1 month ago 6

Russia’s War Economy Lifeline: Inside the Sanctions Evasion Network

Russia’s War Economy Lifeline: Inside the Sanction...

1 month ago 8

They're Coming for Our Kids: How Extremists Target Children Online

They're Coming for Our Kids: How Extremists Target...

1 month ago 4

The Next FATF Test: Can the West Demand Results from Pakistan?

The Next FATF Test: Can the West Demand Results fr...

1 month ago 8

Russia is Targeting Civilians in Ukraine

Russia is Targeting Civilians in Ukraine

1 month ago 10

Loosening the Gordian Knot of Global Terrorism: Why Legitimacy Must Anchor a Counterterrorism Strategy

Loosening the Gordian Knot of Global Terrorism: Wh...

1 month ago 4

Iran at the Breaking Point: How Afghanistan and Iraq Still Inform U.S. Strategy

Iran at the Breaking Point: How Afghanistan and Ir...

1 month ago 5

The Kremlin Files: Russia’s Way to the Gray Zone

The Kremlin Files: Russia’s Way to the Gray Zone

1 month ago 7

The Long Arc Of American Power

The Long Arc Of American Power

1 month ago 9

New Reports Reveal Years of Unaddressed Osprey Safety Risks

New Reports Reveal Years of Unaddressed Osprey Saf...

1 month ago 6

The Coast Guard's Mission in the Gray Zone

The Coast Guard's Mission in the Gray Zone

1 month ago 7

The Country’s First ‘Cognitive Advantage’ Chief: Influence Is the New Battlefield

The Country’s First ‘Cognitive Advantage’ Chief: I...

1 month ago 9

What U.S. – China Cooperation Means for the World

What U.S. – China Cooperation Means for the World

1 month ago 8

Remembering Aldrich Ames and the Lives He Destroyed

Remembering Aldrich Ames and the Lives He Destroye...

2 months ago 7

Ruling Venezuela with a 2,000 Mile Hammer is Not Likely to End Well

Ruling Venezuela with a 2,000 Mile Hammer is Not L...

2 months ago 6

Russia Signals Minimal Desire for Peace

Russia Signals Minimal Desire for Peace

2 months ago 8

Why Labeling Muslim Brotherhood “Chapters” as Terrorist Groups Is Problematic

Why Labeling Muslim Brotherhood “Chapters” as Terr...

2 months ago 10

Uber Krysha: How Russia Turns Crime into Power—and Poison

Uber Krysha: How Russia Turns Crime into Power—and...

2 months ago 5

Iran’s Crumbling Revolutionary Facade: How Today’s Protests Could Reshape the Region in 2026

Iran’s Crumbling Revolutionary Facade: How Today’s...

2 months ago 4

Trump’s Power Doctrine: A $1.5 Trillion Military, Greenland Ambitions, and a World Ruled by Force

Trump’s Power Doctrine: A $1.5 Trillion Military, ...

2 months ago 5

Now Comes the Hard Part in Venezuela

Now Comes the Hard Part in Venezuela

2 months ago 8

Maduro and Noriega: Assessing the Analogies

Maduro and Noriega: Assessing the Analogies

2 months ago 9

How China Built AI Dominance on Stolen American Silicon

How China Built AI Dominance on Stolen American Si...

2 months ago 6

After Maduro’s Removal, the U.S. Faces Its Hardest Test Yet in Venezuela

After Maduro’s Removal, the U.S. Faces Its Hardest...

2 months ago 4

Agentic AI and the “Human-in-the-Loop” Luxury in Modern Defense

Agentic AI and the “Human-in-the-Loop” Luxury in M...

2 months ago 5

The Kremlin Files: Russia, the Modern Surveillance State

The Kremlin Files: Russia, the Modern Surveillance...

2 months ago 8

Iran’s Supreme Leader Should Listen to the People

Iran’s Supreme Leader Should Listen to the People

2 months ago 6

Deepfakes and the War on Trust

Deepfakes and the War on Trust

7 months ago 12

Sabotage Without Warning: Why the Gray Zone Could Be America’s Biggest Blind Spot

Sabotage Without Warning: Why the Gray Zone Could...

7 months ago 10

China and Russia: True Partnership or an Alliance on Borrowed Time?

China and Russia: True Partnership or an Alliance ...

7 months ago 7

Two Existential Threats: CIA’s Reputation vs. Democracy’s Survival

Two Existential Threats: CIA’s Reputation vs. Demo...

7 months ago 6

Guanxi-Warfare: How the U.S. Can Exploit China’s Disposable Alliances

Guanxi-Warfare: How the U.S. Can Exploit China’s D...

7 months ago 6

Golden Dome: A Multi-Billion Dollar Space Gamble

Golden Dome: A Multi-Billion Dollar Space Gamble

7 months ago 14

Regime Change in Iran: Complexities and Limits

Regime Change in Iran: Complexities and Limits

7 months ago 13

Can the U.S. Fix a Broken System of Acquiring Weapons?

Can the U.S. Fix a Broken System of Acquiring Weap...

7 months ago 11

Operation Midnight and the President's War Powers

Operation Midnight and the President's War Powers

7 months ago 13

To Counter Xi, President Trump Needs a New ‘Holy Alliance’

To Counter Xi, President Trump Needs a New ‘Holy A...

7 months ago 11

Expert Q&A: The Major African Terror Group You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

Expert Q&A: The Major African Terror Group You’ve ...

7 months ago 11

The Huawei Dilemma: Why Europe Needs Strong Intelligence Guardrails

The Huawei Dilemma: Why Europe Needs Strong Intell...

7 months ago 13

China's Disinformation Offensive in Taiwan

China's Disinformation Offensive in Taiwan

7 months ago 12

Trapped by His Own Lies: Putin’s Echo Chamber Backfires—Again

Trapped by His Own Lies: Putin’s Echo Chamber Back...

7 months ago 9

Third-Country Deportations in Legal Limbo Under Trump

Third-Country Deportations in Legal Limbo Under Tr...

7 months ago 10

America’s Moonshot Moment in AI

America’s Moonshot Moment in AI

7 months ago 16

Experts Warn of Insurgents' Paradise in West Africa

Experts Warn of Insurgents' Paradise in West Afric...

7 months ago 11

Expert Q&A: Putin Overplayed His Hand with Trump on Ukraine

Expert Q&A: Putin Overplayed His Hand with Trump o...

7 months ago 11

Ukraine’s Defense may hinge on Offensive Operations

Ukraine’s Defense may hinge on Offensive Operation...

8 months ago 10

CIA's Latest Existential Challenge

CIA's Latest Existential Challenge

8 months ago 11

China Can Do More to Improve Relations with the U.S.

China Can Do More to Improve Relations with the U....

8 months ago 15

How the Danes See NATO, Trump and Ukraine

How the Danes See NATO, Trump and Ukraine

8 months ago 12

Battered but Not Broken: Why NATO Still Fears a Weakened Russia

Battered but Not Broken: Why NATO Still Fears a We...

8 months ago 12

Russia’s Outreach to the Taliban: Strategic Calculations or Regional Security Fears?

Russia’s Outreach to the Taliban: Strategic Calcul...

8 months ago 9

The Neoprime Club: Silicon Valley and The Rise of Defense Disruptors

The Neoprime Club: Silicon Valley and The Rise of ...

8 months ago 12

How Trump Can Be the Winning President in Ukraine

How Trump Can Be the Winning President in Ukraine

8 months ago 12

Getting Inside the Mind of Xi Jinping

Getting Inside the Mind of Xi Jinping

8 months ago 12

As Nukes Spread, Robust Missile Defenses Must Rise

As Nukes Spread, Robust Missile Defenses Must Rise...

8 months ago 15

The Real Impact of a Nuclear Bomb

The Real Impact of a Nuclear Bomb

8 months ago 16

As Taiwan Launches Military Drills, a Pressing Question for Washington

As Taiwan Launches Military Drills, a Pressing Que...

8 months ago 13

U.S. Cyber Defense Starts with Defining Standards and Driving Collaboration

U.S. Cyber Defense Starts with Defining Standards ...

8 months ago 10

Expert Q&A: What to Watch for at the Trump-Netanyahu Meeting

Expert Q&A: What to Watch for at the Trump-Netanya...

8 months ago 8

Can President Trump Get a "Big, Beautiful" Deal in the Middle East?

Can President Trump Get a "Big, Beautiful" Deal in...

8 months ago 12

To Counter China, Reform U.S. Intelligence for the Digital Age

To Counter China, Reform U.S. Intelligence for the...

8 months ago 14

Expert Q&A: Former CENTCOM Commander on U.S. Troops in the Middle East

Expert Q&A: Former CENTCOM Commander on U.S. Troop...

8 months ago 9

The U.S. Has 40,000 Troops in the Middle East

The U.S. Has 40,000 Troops in the Middle East

8 months ago 12

The Peacewalkers: How the West Went to War in 2022

The Peacewalkers: How the West Went to War in 2022...

8 months ago 10

Iran is a Terrorist State

Iran is a Terrorist State

8 months ago 10

The Cipher Brief's Hottest Summer Reading

The Cipher Brief's Hottest Summer Reading

8 months ago 10

The Golden Dome is Missing a Key Focus

The Golden Dome is Missing a Key Focus

8 months ago 11

Golden Dome is Missing A Key Focus

Golden Dome is Missing A Key Focus

8 months ago 11

Getting NATO to Be Able to 'Fight Tonight'

Getting NATO to Be Able to 'Fight Tonight'

8 months ago 12

The Math Behind Trump's $1 Trillion Defense Budget

The Math Behind Trump's $1 Trillion Defense Budget...

8 months ago 20

The Downward Spiral of Western Counterintelligence

The Downward Spiral of Western Counterintelligence...

8 months ago 8

Beijing’s Rare Disclosure on DF-5B Missile Signals Shift in Nuclear Messaging

Beijing’s Rare Disclosure on DF-5B Missile Signals...

8 months ago 15

An Urgent Call to Close the Loopholes on Chips and China

An Urgent Call to Close the Loopholes on Chips and...

8 months ago 9

A Good NATO Summit, Though Russia Won a Round

A Good NATO Summit, Though Russia Won a Round

8 months ago 17

NATO Wins will have an Impact

NATO Wins will have an Impact

8 months ago 17

NATO Lures Trump Back - at a Cost

NATO Lures Trump Back - at a Cost

8 months ago 14

North Korea’s Sticking Points: Abduction and Uranium Enrichment

North Korea’s Sticking Points: Abduction and Urani...

8 months ago 15

Can Europe Really Defend Itself?

Can Europe Really Defend Itself?

8 months ago 14

Former CIA Director on the Priority Intelligence Requirement in Iran

Former CIA Director on the Priority Intelligence R...

8 months ago 11

What Was Trump Thinking When He Ordered the Strike on Iran?

What Was Trump Thinking When He Ordered the Strike...

8 months ago 11

Will Anything Stop Iran's Pursuit of Nuclear Weapons?

Will Anything Stop Iran's Pursuit of Nuclear Weapo...

8 months ago 12

Could Iran's Judiciary Chief Be the Next Supreme Leader?

Could Iran's Judiciary Chief Be the Next Supreme L...

8 months ago 10

The Intelligence Behind the Strike: Was Everyone Wrong About Iran’s Nuclear Program?

The Intelligence Behind the Strike: Was Everyone W...

8 months ago 8

NATO's Critical 1.5 Percent

NATO's Critical 1.5 Percent

8 months ago 10

Ukraine's Defense Export Pivot Is A Game-Changer

Ukraine's Defense Export Pivot Is A Game-Changer

8 months ago 11

Experts Assess Strikes, Response and What Comes Next

Experts Assess Strikes, Response and What Comes Ne...

8 months ago 13

How Resilient are Energy Markets in Times of Crisis?

How Resilient are Energy Markets in Times of Crisi...

8 months ago 9

The Next War Won’t Target Cities, It Will Target Choke Points.

The Next War Won’t Target Cities, It Will Target C...

8 months ago 14

The Rampant Leadership Corruption Plaguing China and Russia

The Rampant Leadership Corruption Plaguing China a...

8 months ago 13

Amid Crisis, A Lesser-Told Story of US-Iran Similarities Holds Some Hope

Amid Crisis, A Lesser-Told Story of US-Iran Simila...

8 months ago 12

What Would It Take to End the Regime in Iran?

What Would It Take to End the Regime in Iran?

8 months ago 13

Why Iran’s Nuclear Program Cannot Be Dismantled from the Air

Why Iran’s Nuclear Program Cannot Be Dismantled fr...

8 months ago 15

How Things Could go from Worse to Devastating for Iran

How Things Could go from Worse to Devastating for ...

8 months ago 10

Israel’s Bid to End the Iranian Nuclear Threat

Israel’s Bid to End the Iranian Nuclear Threat

8 months ago 10

What’s Happening in L.A. May Not Stay in L.A.

What’s Happening in L.A. May Not Stay in L.A.

8 months ago 14

The Houthi Balancing Act After Israel’s Attack on Iran

The Houthi Balancing Act After Israel’s Attack on ...

9 months ago 7

The Attack that Knocked Back Iran’s Nuclear Program

The Attack that Knocked Back Iran’s Nuclear Progra...

9 months ago 15

Dead Drop: June 13

Dead Drop: June 13

9 months ago 12

China Wants Our Hearts. Literally.

China Wants Our Hearts. Literally.

9 months ago 13

Chinese Industrial Espionage: What Happens in the Netherlands Doesn’t Stay in the Netherlands

Chinese Industrial Espionage: What Happens in the ...

9 months ago 12

U.S. Support for Ukraine Would be Cheap at Twice the Price

U.S. Support for Ukraine Would be Cheap at Twice t...

9 months ago 15

South Korea’s New President

South Korea’s New President

9 months ago 14

How Long Can Ukraine Fight?

How Long Can Ukraine Fight?

9 months ago 10

A Closer Look at the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ on Defense Spending

A Closer Look at the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ on Defen...

9 months ago 18

China’s ‘Leap Forward’ in Drone Weapons

China’s ‘Leap Forward’ in Drone Weapons

9 months ago 15

The President’s Path to the Right Side of History

The President’s Path to the Right Side of History

9 months ago 20