After the United States emerged from the Vietnam War, it witnessed the events of the 1973 Yom Kippur War—a state-level conflict fought against Israel by […] More

Thomas Mahnken is the Jerome E. Levy Chair of Economic Geography and National Security at the U.S. Naval War College and served as Deputy Assistant […] More

Three dramatic developments have occurred in the employment of U.S. air power in the past 25 years: the vulnerability of air defenses faced, leading to […] More

Whether or not we are officially at war with ISIS is a reoccurring debate in today’s mass media.  Part of what makes this question so […] More

Twenty-eight years ago, I began my career as a hotel night security guard at the SAS Scandinavia Hotel in Oslo, Norway.  The hotel was part […] More

The Arab Spring was the beacon of hope that would free millions from the grip of autocratic rulers.   At first, it looked promising.  One by […] More

The “Arab Spring” of 2011-12 has profoundly changed the Middle East, but much is misunderstood about its effects.  First, it did not produce, other than […] More

When the so-called Arab Spring burst upon the Middle East five years ago, Henry Kissinger remarked that this was only “scene one of act one […] More

As the citizens of Arab nations reflect on the fifth anniversary of the popular revolts of 2011, they are likely to feel a sense of […] More

Cybersecurity has not only dominated the headlines in the wake of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and Sony hacks, it has become a […] More

Davis Hake is the Director of Cybersecurity Strategy for Palo Alto Networks and a former official at the Department of Homeland Security.  Hake spoke with […] More

Periodically, The Cipher Brief profiles an up and coming leader in the cybersecurity and national security fields.   This week we introduce you to Angela Knox, […] More

Chris Young is the general manager of the Intel Security Group at the Intel Corporation, where he leads the company’s security practice. Young sat down […] More

To understand what domestic and strategic factors may have encouraged Iran to seek stronger cyber-capabilities, it helps to look at the several ways Iran uses […] More

Iranian hacks into the social media accounts of U.S. State Department officials are the latest signal from Tehran that it is not looking to turn […] More

Iran is a second tier cyber power. By the standards of other state actors, its capabilities—both offensive and defensive—are relatively modest, but they are growing […] More

Through a series of attacks over the last three years, Iran has revealed a limited offensive cyber capability but a willingness to use it to […] More

The recent terror attacks in Paris and San Bernardino have left the global community shaken. What made these attacks particularly terrifying is that the terrorists […] More