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Report for Friday, November 8, 2024

Israeli, French security officers clash during French F.M.’s visit to Jerusalem

Putin says Ukraine must remain neutral for there to be peace

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

Pentagon confirms that Ukraine will receive $6 billion in US military aid before Trump's term begins

China protests after Philippine president signs new laws to assert South China Sea claims, sovereignty

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How Trump 2.0 May Deal With Global Flashpoints

From Ukraine to the Middle East to China – clues to how the Trump-Vance administration will handle global challenges

DEEP DIVE – As Donald Trump prepares to return to the White House, the U.S. faces an unusually broad set of global security challenges: wars […] More

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CIA Director Gets Candid About Today’s Global Challenges | The Cipher Brief


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NSA Director: US Investigating China Telecom Cyberattacks | The Cipher Brief

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INTERPOL Director of Cybercrime talks AI, Scams, and International Collaboration | The Cipher Brief


Book Reviews

Dead Drop

This Week’s Dead Drop: November 8

WHAT WOULD THE EXPERTS SAY:  Just after the U.S. presidential election, there was much speculation about how the next Trump administration will impact U.S. national security.We know from his last four years in office that Trump is likely to be tough on China but we’re still a little weirded out over the whole public ‘bro love’ thing with Russian President Vladimir Putin (which could be kinda troublesome).  A former Russia expert from the CIA who spent a lot of time on the Putin problem told The Cipher Brief that “It [...] More

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Podcasts

State Secrets

Silicon Valley Entrepreneur and author Steve Blank thinks way outside the Washington DC beltway. The Stanford Professor who teaches courses on lean start-ups, innovation and the art of entrepreneurship – also blogs regularly. It may not be a state secrets that one of his blogs published earlier this year about why large organizations struggle with disruption – and what to do about it – was a not-so-veiled reference to the pentagon. State Secrets host Suzanne Kelly sits down with Blank to talk about it.

Cover Stories: Spies, Books & Entertainment

Description: Admiral Jim Stavridis (Ret.) is out with his fourteenth book, The Restless Wave - a tale of historical fiction taking place during World War II. Cover Stories co-host Suzanne Kelly caught up with the retired Admiral for a Cipher Brief Book Club virtual meeting to talk about just how much of ‘himself’ was written into his main character – about what inspired his writing and then, she couldn’t help but ask about those love scenes.


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