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An FBI Perspective on FISA Section 702

Cynthia Kaiser

An FBI Perspective on FISA Section 702

OPINION – I spent twenty years at the FBI supporting investigations into cybercrime, tracking ransomware gangs, and watching foreign adversaries tear [...] More

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Copy of Trump’s Cyber Strategy Is a Strong Playbook, but It’s All in the Execution

Zachary Shaw

Copy of Trump’s Cyber Strategy Is a Strong Playbook, but It’s All in the Execution

OPINION — The White House is making a significant effort toward putting the nation’s cyber house in order. A newly released National Cyber Strategy [...] More

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Avoiding Another 9/11: 3 Key Reasons to Reauthorize Section 702

General Paul Nakasone (Ret.)

Avoiding Another 9/11: 3 Key Reasons to Reauthorize Section 702

Editor's Note: Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was originally enacted as a post 9/11surveillance program that allows the [...] More

The Navy is changing the way it does business and its still pretty pricey

Walter Pincus

The Navy is changing the way it does business and its still pretty pricey

OPINION -- "After a rigorous, data-driven analysis, we've made the tough but necessary decision to inactivate the USS Boise. This strategic move [...] More

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The Case for Reauthorizing Section 702

Rob Joyce

The Case for Reauthorizing Section 702

Editor's Note: Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was originally enacted as a post 9/11surveillance program that allows the [...] More

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

Paul Miller

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

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Why Australia Needs a National Spy Museum

Liesl Jordan

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

Liesl Jordan

America’s AI Strategy Is Fighting the Last War

Dr. Jon Rosenwasser

America’s AI Strategy Is Fighting the Last War

Alvin W. Graylin

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

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America’s Drone Strategy Has a Supply Chain Problem

Joey Gagnard

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

Joey Gagnard

Drones Are Changing Warfare And America Isn’t Ready

Steve Blank

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

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

Chip Usher

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

Chip Usher

New Presidential Executive Order Targets Transnational Cybercrime

Ken Westbrook

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

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

Sami Omari

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

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