Dead Drop: July 23

July 23, 2021 | Anonymous

LEAVE NO MARKER BEHIND:  The US is rapidly pulling its forces out of Afghanistan and in the country where US and allied troops have fought and died for the past two ...

Artificial Intelligence and the Intelligence Community

July 20, 2021 | Corin Stone

This article was first published by our friends at JustSecurity. Corin R. Stone is a Scholar-in-Residence and Adjunct Professor at the Washington College of Law. She is on leave from ...

A Deep Dive on the US' Nuclear Weapons Testing Tunnel

July 20, 2021 | Walter Pincus

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

Gamifying Disinformation Mitigation

July 15, 2021 | Doowan Lee, Elizabeth Lange and Yi-ting Lien

Bottom Line Up Front: gamification can promote and scale disinformation mitigation by lowering the threshold of collaboration across different demographic groups. The Cipher Brief’s Academic Incubator partners with national security-focused programs from ...

The US Drought and its Connection to National Security

July 14, 2021 | Erin Sikorsky

Erin Sikorsky is deputy director of the Center for Climate and Security, and the director of the International Military Council on Climate and Security. Previously, she served as the deputy director of the Strategic Futures Group ...

Is the US Creating Opportunity for China in Afghanistan?

July 13, 2021 | Walter Pincus

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

The Cellist and her Plot Against Putin

July 13, 2021 | The Cellist

BOOK REVIEW: The Cellist By Daniel Silva / Harper Reviewed by Admiral James Stavridis, USN (Ret) The Reviewer – Cipher Brief Expert Admiral James Stavridis, USN, Ret. was the 16th ...

What the Pandemic Taught Me About Leadership

July 09, 2021 | Jen Easterly

Jen Easterly is Head of Firm Resilience and the Fusion Resilience Center at Morgan Stanley.  She is also the Biden Administration’s nominee to become the next Director of the Cybersecurity ...

Data Compliance Doesn't Have to be Slow

July 08, 2021 | Nancy Patel

Nancy Patel is VP/GM of Public Sector at Immuta.  She holds graduate degrees in Systems Engineering from George Washington University and Business Administration and Management from University of Kentucky (UK) ...

A Read for Spy Nerds

July 07, 2021 | Spy Swap

BOOK REVIEW: SPY SWAP: The Humiliation of Russia’s Intelligence Services By Nigel West / Frontline Books Reviewed by Joseph Augustyn, Former Sr. CIA Officer The Reviewer -- Joseph W. Augustyn ...

Cyber is the New Weapons System of the Future

July 06, 2021 | Walter Pincus

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

June 30, 2021 | Rob Dannenberg

Robert Dannenberg, Fmr. Sr. CIA Officer, Former Chief of Security, Goldman Sachs Cipher Brief Expert Rob Dannenberg is the former Managing Director and Head of the Office of Global Security ...

June 23, 2021 | Calder Walton and Sean Power

As part of a special series on climate in partnership with The Intelligence Project at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and Cipher Brief Expert and Senior ...

June 21, 2021 | Norman T. Roule

Hard-line cleric Ebrahim Raisi won Iran’s presidential election on Saturday in a move that is expected to bolster the conservative legacy of the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The ...

June 09, 2021 | Mark Kelton

Ties between Russia and China go far beyond mutual lessons-learned and policy coordination.  They have entered into cooperative arrangements that pose clear dangers for the US and its allies.  The ...

June 08, 2021 | Mark Kelton

In 1937, Winston Churchill contrasted the “two rival religions” of Nazism and Communism then afflicting the world.  Those fascist and communist “infernal twins”, he wrote, “imagine themselves as exact opposites” ...

June 04, 2021 | Jamie Burnham

As part of a week-long series focused on Mapping China’s Ambitions, The Cipher Brief is partnering with Harvard Research Fellow and former British diplomat Jamie Burnham to explore China’s threat vectors, ...

June 03, 2021 | Jamie Burnham

As part of a week-long series focused on Mapping China’s Ambitions, The Cipher Brief is partnering with Harvard Research Fellow and former British diplomat Jamie Burnham to explore China’s threat vectors, ...

June 02, 2021 | Jamie Burnham

As part of a week-long series focused on Mapping China’s Ambitions, The Cipher Brief is partnering with Harvard Research Fellow and former British diplomat Jamie Burnham to explore China’s threat vectors, ...

June 01, 2021 | Tim Willasey-Wilsey

Bottom Line Up Front: There are indications that the Taliban have no intention of reaching a compromise and believe they can take over Afghanistan shortly after the US withdrawal. Comparisons ...

May 31, 2021 | Jamie Burnham

On 25 September 2017, the board of UK-based Imagination Technologies, founded in 1985 (and listed on the LSE in 1994), agreed to a take-over by a Palo Alto-based, Cayman Island-registered ...

May 26, 2021 | Daniel Hoffman and Paul Kolbe

Next month’s planned meeting between US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to include conversations on Ukraine, COVID-19 and the recent diversion of a flight by ...

July 23, 2021 | Anonymous

LEAVE NO MARKER BEHIND:  The US is rapidly pulling its forces out of Afghanistan and in the country where US and allied troops have fought and died for the past two ...

June 30, 2021 | Rob Dannenberg

Robert Dannenberg, Fmr. Sr. CIA Officer, Former Chief of Security, Goldman Sachs Cipher Brief Expert Rob Dannenberg is the former Managing Director and Head of the Office of Global Security ...

June 23, 2021 | Calder Walton and Sean Power

As part of a special series on climate in partnership with The Intelligence Project at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and Cipher Brief Expert and Senior ...

June 21, 2021 | Norman T. Roule

Hard-line cleric Ebrahim Raisi won Iran’s presidential election on Saturday in a move that is expected to bolster the conservative legacy of the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The ...

June 09, 2021 | Mark Kelton

Ties between Russia and China go far beyond mutual lessons-learned and policy coordination.  They have entered into cooperative arrangements that pose clear dangers for the US and its allies.  The ...

June 08, 2021 | Mark Kelton

In 1937, Winston Churchill contrasted the “two rival religions” of Nazism and Communism then afflicting the world.  Those fascist and communist “infernal twins”, he wrote, “imagine themselves as exact opposites” ...

June 04, 2021 | Jamie Burnham

As part of a week-long series focused on Mapping China’s Ambitions, The Cipher Brief is partnering with Harvard Research Fellow and former British diplomat Jamie Burnham to explore China’s threat vectors, ...

June 03, 2021 | Jamie Burnham

As part of a week-long series focused on Mapping China’s Ambitions, The Cipher Brief is partnering with Harvard Research Fellow and former British diplomat Jamie Burnham to explore China’s threat vectors, ...

June 02, 2021 | Jamie Burnham

As part of a week-long series focused on Mapping China’s Ambitions, The Cipher Brief is partnering with Harvard Research Fellow and former British diplomat Jamie Burnham to explore China’s threat vectors, ...

June 01, 2021 | Tim Willasey-Wilsey

Bottom Line Up Front: There are indications that the Taliban have no intention of reaching a compromise and believe they can take over Afghanistan shortly after the US withdrawal. Comparisons ...

May 31, 2021 | Jamie Burnham

On 25 September 2017, the board of UK-based Imagination Technologies, founded in 1985 (and listed on the LSE in 1994), agreed to a take-over by a Palo Alto-based, Cayman Island-registered ...

May 26, 2021 | Daniel Hoffman and Paul Kolbe

Next month’s planned meeting between US President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to include conversations on Ukraine, COVID-19 and the recent diversion of a flight by ...