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The Strategic Realignment: Iran, China, and the Great Power Contest

The Strategic Realignment: Iran, China, and the Great Power Contest

OPINION — The conflict in Iran is not solely the result of 47 years of unresolved tension. That framing misses a more consequential story: what is [...] More

Why Australia Needs a National Spy Museum

OPINION — Australia is entering one of the most complex and psychologically destabilizing security periods in its modern history. The ASIO [...] More

America’s AI Strategy Is Fighting the Last War

OPINION — Washington’s strategy for artificial general intelligence (AGI), or the ability to replace human cognitive labor, assumes the United States [...] More

America’s Drone Strategy Has a Supply Chain Problem

OPINION — In this issue we will discuss implications of the Drone Dominance Program, how weakness in the U.S. industrial base has been laid bare, and [...] More

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Drones Are Changing Warfare And America Isn’t Ready

OPINION — Drones in Ukraine and in the War with Iran have made the surface of the earth a contested space. The U.S. has discovered that 1) air [...] More

How the Iran War Is Reordering the World, Second and Third-Order Effects

How the Iran War Is Reordering the World, Second and Third-Order Effects

OPINION — Five weeks into the US-Israeli war against Iran, the immediate military picture — decapitation strikes, missile exchanges, and the grinding [...] More

New Presidential Executive Order Targets Transnational Cybercrime

New Presidential Executive Order Targets Transnational Cybercrime

OPINION – The Cipher Brief broke new ground when it published my piece addressing scams as a national security issue in December 2023. Two years [...] More

Why a War in the Middle East Is Hitting Australians at the Petrol Pump

Why a War in the Middle East Is Hitting Australians at the Petrol Pump

OPINION – Economic insulation is no longer guaranteed by geography. Australia is nevertheless very vulnerable to geopolitical unrest in the Middle [...] More

Why the ‘Day After’ Is The Most Important Day in the Iranian Conflict

OPINION — The countries that get held up as models for this kind of US led attack are worth looking at closely, because they’re instructive in the [...] More

Iran Is Building the Disinformation Architecture of the Future

Iran Is Building the Disinformation Architecture of the Future

OPINION — Iran is the right place to start. Not because it is the most sophisticated adversary in disinformation—but because it is the most [...] More

Why Hasn’t Iran Buckled Under U.S.-Israeli Pressure?

Why Hasn’t Iran Buckled Under U.S.-Israeli Pressure?

EXPERT Q&A -- There are more questions than answers around the reported delivery of a U.S. 15-point plan presented to Iranian officials via a [...] More

Romania Pays the Cyber Price for Backing Ukraine. Where is the EU?

Romania Pays the Cyber Price for Backing Ukraine. Where is the EU?

OPINION – When ransomware groups hit Romania’s national water agency, its largest coal-fired power producer and oil pipeline operator all in recent [...] More

While Washington Looks to Iran, Putin Gains Ground

While Washington Looks to Iran, Putin Gains Ground

OPINION - After the joint U.S. - Israeli strikes against Iran’s nuclear program last June and after the spectacular raid that resulted in the capture [...] More

National Security Starts at Home — Not on the Battlefield

National Security Starts at Home — Not on the Battlefield

OPINION – The current conflict with Iran highlights a longstanding, core premise that national security comes from visible instruments of power - [...] More

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