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Are the U.S. and China Still Destined for War?

A lot has happened since China expert and Harvard Professor Graham Allison’s best-selling book on China, Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides Trap was published in...

The Coming Chinese Storm - Part Two

by Mark Kelton

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The Coming Chinese Storm

by Mark Kelton

This is Cipher Brief Level I Member Only content. It can be accessed via login or by signing up to become a Cipher Brief Member.  Joining this high-level, security-focused community is only...

Taliban: The New Masters of the Gray Zone?

by The Cipher Brief

Ahead of The Cipher Brief’s 2019 Threat Conference, we caught up with two of our experts, each with deep knowledge of the Afghan conflict, to get their thoughts on the peace talks, their confidence...

So You Think You Have a Book in You?

by The Cipher Brief

Under/Cover is constantly probing for insights that will help readers (and writers) understand how to gauge demand, and how to know if that story they have burning inside of them, is actually a book...

How Close Did India and Pakistan Come to War?

by Tim Willasey-Wilsey

It needs no more than 4 bad decisions for India and Pakistan to go to war; and 5 for that war to go nuclear. So how did the Pulwama crisis measure up against this approximate yard-stick? This is...

A Cloud Computing Forecast

by The Cipher Brief

Predicting the future of Cloud computing is a bit like predicting the weather:  there are certain knowns that you can set a clock by, but there are unknowns about the environment, and how conditions...

DHS' Big Plan for a Stronger Public-Private Cyber Partnership

by The Cipher Brief

It’s been four months since President Trump signed the Cyber Security and Infrastructure Security Agency Act, elevating a division of the Department of Homeland Security that engages with the...

The Future of the Dark Web

by The Cipher Brief

The dark web has long been a place where stolen personal data is bought and sold in staggering numbers, criminals run lucrative drug and pornographic businesses and terrorists have found relatively...

Protecting Sovereignty of U.S. Telecommunications Backbone

by Thomas Donahue

Cipher Brief Expert and former Senior Director for Cyber Operations at the National Security Council, Thomas Donahue, provides critical perspective on the strategy needed to protect the sovereignty...