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Why The Intelligence Community Needs a Climate Change Task Force

by Erin Sikorsky and Kristin Wood

Kristin Wood, Sr. Climate Editor, The Cipher Brief Kristin Wood is the Senior Climate Editor for The Cipher Brief, a Cipher Brief expert, a non-resident fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School’s...

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The Mission to Counter Misinformation: A Briefing with former DNI James Clapper

by James Clapper

In the summer of 2016, then-Director of National Intelligence Lt. Gen. James Clapper began to detect a worrisome trend.  It was an election year, and he was starting to see an uptick in Russian...

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President Biden's Middle East: A Briefing with Norman Roule

by Norman Roule

“The Cipher Brief has become the most popular outlet for former intelligence officers; no media outlet is even a close second to The Cipher Brief in terms of the number of articles published by...

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A New World of Global Security: A Briefing with Sir John Sawers

by Sir John Sawers

The new COVID-19 national security world is one shaped by a host of national and global security issues that were impacted – both good and bad – by the global pandemic. That, in turn, has...

United States

national security

Terrorism

A New Approach to Domestic Terrorism

by Javed Ali and Thomas S. Warrick

Javed Ali, Policymaker in Residence, University of Michigan Javed Ali is a Towsley Policymaker in Residence at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and had over...

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The US Intelligence Community's Complicated Relationship with Telework

by Jim Danoy

Jim Danoy, Former Executive, Defense Intelligence Agency Cipher Brief Expert Jim Danoy is a former defense intelligence executive and served as the National Intelligence Manager for Europe and...

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Is it Time for a New Policy Toward North Korea - A Cipher Brief Debate

by James Clapper and Joseph DeTrani

“The Cipher Brief has become the most popular outlet for former intelligence officers; no media outlet is even a close second to The Cipher Brief in terms of the number of articles published by...

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The Climate and U.S. National Security: A Conversation Series

by ADM James Stavridis

CLIMATE — One of President Biden’s first areas of focus after taking office on Wednesday was on the climate, reinstating a commitment that the US will rejoin the Paris climate accord. The...

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Inside the Bureau of Intelligence and Research

by The Cipher Brief

“The Cipher Brief has become the most popular outlet for former intelligence officers; no media outlet is even a close second to The Cipher Brief in terms of the number of articles published by...

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Operation Fortitude: A Lesson in Deception from D-Day

by Christopher Turner

(Photo caption:  Full-size dummy LCTs, codenamed BIGBOB, moored in South East England before the Normandy invasion (British Imperial War Museums, photograph H 42527, public domain).  This article...