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Dear Mr. President: A Former CIA Officer’s Unvarnished Brief on Putin

Glenn Corn

Dear Mr. President: A Former CIA Officer’s Unvarnished Brief on Putin

Dear Mr. President:I am hoping you remember me. I spent about 90 minutes with you and much of your cabinet in the Oval Office in the spring of 2017, [...] More

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Abrupt Changes at the top of the National Security Agency Risk Destabilization
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Abrupt Changes at the top of the National Security Agency Risk Destabilization

EXCLUSIVE CIPHER BRIEF REPORTING — The Cipher Brief was the first to report on Thursday in the weekly Dead Drop column that Director of the National [...] More

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Trump Administration Says Narco-Trafficking is #1 Threat - and Tries All-Hands Approach to Stop It
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Trump Administration Says Narco-Trafficking is #1 Threat - and Tries All-Hands Approach to Stop It

DEEP DIVE — When the U.S. intelligence community (IC) declared last week that the greatest danger to American national security is old-fashioned [...] More

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For Trump Administration, Policy Often Involves a Hunt for Minerals
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For Trump Administration, Policy Often Involves a Hunt for Minerals

DEEP DIVE — Over the past week, the Trump administration took two steps involving the pursuit of critical and rare earth minerals: it issued an [...] More

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How Trump’s Foreign Aid Freeze Could Set Back U.S. Cybersecurity
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How Trump’s Foreign Aid Freeze Could Set Back U.S. Cybersecurity

DEEP DIVE — President Donald Trump’s foreign aid freeze will kneecap U.S. efforts to build alliances around cybersecurity issues and help Russia and [...] More

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Reimagining the Way the U.S. Prepares for Future Wars

Reimagining the Way the U.S. Prepares for Future Wars

EXPERT INTERVIEWS – In an age of rapidly changing technology and profound implications for the wars of the future, is the United States adapting [...] More

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NATO and Ukraine in the Trump 2.0 Era
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NATO and Ukraine in the Trump 2.0 Era

EXPERT INTERVIEWS — While the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has long counted the United States among its most generous and loyal members, [...] More

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What's Really Happening at the Panama Canal?
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What's Really Happening at the Panama Canal?

EXPERT INTERVIEWS — The Panama Canal has landed squarely in the national security conversation, thanks to a series of remarks by Donald Trump, who as [...] More

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What will follow the year of ISIS’ Resurrection?
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What will follow the year of ISIS’ Resurrection?

BOTTOM LINE UP FRONT — Two utterly different events, in two very different parts of the world, have raised fresh concerns about a return to strength [...] More

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Why Greenland Matters: Natural Resources - and 'Location, Location, Location'
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Why Greenland Matters: Natural Resources - and 'Location, Location, Location'

EXPERT PERSPECTIVE — When The Cipher Brief looked at the global security landscape for 2025, Greenland didn’t rate a mention. That was probably true [...] More

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'Straight Talk' on China's Offensives in the American Homeland 
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'Straight Talk' on China's Offensives in the American Homeland 

EXPERT VIEW — 2024 has brought multiple reminders of the threats – real and potential – posed by the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Over the past [...] More

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The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI): ‘Coordinated Orchestra’ or ‘Loveless Marriage’?
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The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI): ‘Coordinated Orchestra’ or ‘Loveless Marriage’?

DEEP DIVE – The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is a relatively recent addition to the institutional architecture of the U.S. [...] More

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A Personal Message of Thanks from The Cipher Brief
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A Personal Message of Thanks from The Cipher Brief

A PERSONAL MESSAGE / OPINION — In this space that’s normally reserved for world-class reporting and analysis of global security issues, we thought [...] More

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