Data is “Ammo in AI Warfare,” and the Pentagon May Be Running Low
OPINION — “During the daily battle rhythm, the DoD [Department of Defense] creates more than 22 terabytes [equal to 22 trillion bytes with a byte […] More
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EXCLUSIVE: Manila’s Envoy to Beijing Weighs-In On Recent US-China Tensions
EXCLUSIVE SUBSCRIBER+ INTERVIEW — An old friend of Beijing returned to China this week in a move that harkens back to a time when Manila […] More
The Only Thing Worse than Bringing a Knife to a Gunfight
OPINION — This spring, a delegation from the U.S. House of Representatives visited Taiwan – both as a show of solidarity and to develop responses […] More
Netanyahu: Israel’s Renowned Statesman Lost on the International Stage
OPINION — Over the course of his many decades in Israeli politics, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earned a reputation as Israel’s premier statesman and the country’s most savvy politician. […] More
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Erdogan’s ‘Poker Game’ Uses Sweden As Chip: A Subscriber+Exclusive Interview
Exclusive Subscriber+Member Interview — In a flurry of negotiations on the eve of the NATO summit, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan revealed himself as the […] More
U.S.-Iran Stand-Off Hints of Old “Tanker War”
CIPHER BRIEF REPORTING – Less than a month ago, with global attention fixed on the Ukrainian offensive, U.S. Admiral James Stavridis (ret.) sought to open […] More
America’s Culture Wars Are Rippling Through The Armed Forces
OPINION — As Congress moves the fiscal 2024 Defense Department authorization and appropriation bills forward with more money to help needed recruitment, a handful of […] More
U.S. Soldiers in Poland Are Helping Ukraine, Albeit With Slimmed-Down Training
OPINION — In Jasionka, Poland, a small town of 2,700 just 60 miles west of the Ukraine border, a little-publicized unit of U.S. soldiers from […] More
Can Riyadh Leverage Failed Negotiations?
OPINION — Two months ago, the Saudis took unprecedented public steps to show the Houthis (and the world) they were serious about ending their involvement in the […] More
Top Marine Nominee Had a Hand In The Corps’ Transformation
OPINION — “That’s the thing we’ve always sought – kind of the Holy Grail – and now we’re doing it.” Access all of The Cipher […] More
China’s Quantum Leap Enters New Phase, After Unlikely Beginnings
CIPHER BRIEF REPORTING — Ten years after Edward Snowden revealed the extent of a sprawling American surveillance program, China and the U.S. are now locked […] More
As America’s Nuclear Arsenal Upgrades, Usual Testing is Scrapped
OPINION — “U.S. [nuclear] warheads were designed and manufactured until the late 1980s and early 1990s. Since then, we have not designed any new nuclear […] More
Seven Critical Technologies for Winning the Next War
OPINION / ANALYSIS — The world is speeding up. Adversaries such as China are seeking to remake global power structures and compete with the United […] More
The US May Not Be Looking For a Fight with China, But It’s Preparing For One
OPINION — “We’re engaged in an intense competition with China across many areas, but it’s not in our interest for that competition to end in […] More
America Ushers the Era of (Trust) Cloud Connectivity
OPINION — Today, it is not the phone companies but those that deal in data that connect the world. Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are leading […] More