"Grave Threats": American Security and the Next U.S. President
From Syria, to climate change, North Korea, and the largest global refugee flows in history, the next President will face a uniquely challenging set of […]
Opinion
If This Were a Real World Election
Fox News’ Chris Wallace has said as moderator, he plans to make “foreign hot spots” one of the 15-minute topics in tomorrow night’s final presidential […]
A Letter to the Next Secretary of State Re: East Asia
Chinese rivalry with the U.S. for regional dominance will be central to U.S. East Asia policy for the incoming administration. China’s aggressive use of economic […]
The Fall of Moscow Station: Thinking Outside the Box
Mark Henshaw’s latest spy thriller could have been ripped straight from today’s headlines as tensions between Moscow and Washington continue to mount. The Fall of […]
Underestimating al Qaeda
The United States and its allies are consumed by their battle with ISIS, but to many terrorism experts, al Qaeda remains a serious force to […]
Putin Could Hit the Trifecta If Trump Wins the White House
The relationship between Russia and the United States has always been and will always be complicated. In the U.S. and the West in general, hope […]
No Simple Choices When it Comes to Syria
President Obama, and therefore the United States, has not faced simple choices when it comes to Syria and certainly none that would satisfy Americans’ traditional […]
Homeland Intelligence: The Unique Community Within the Community
The increasing rate of international and domestic terror threats to and in the homeland highlights the importance to our security of the nation’s least understood […]
Brad Thor’s Foreign Agent Formulaic and Unrealistic, But Enjoyable
Brad Thor’s latest thriller Foreign Agent is the fifteenth in his Scot Harvath series, and finds former Navy SEAL Harvath fighting both ISIS and evil […]
The Likely Impact of New Guidelines on Corporate Cybersecurity
Recent amendments to the Wassenaar Arrangement (WA)—a multilateral voluntary agreement among 41 countries that places restrictions on the export of dual use technologies—have added intrusion […]
The Case for No-First-Use
The conditions under which a U.S. president might use nuclear weapons has in recent weeks become a topic of national conversation. Toward the end of […]
The Problem is Congress, Not the Presidency
The Congress is the main cause of our broken government, not the Presidency. Yet public anger with Washington’s failure to act on key federal government […]
You Can’t Put Syria's Pieces Back Together Again
Fighting in Aleppo has intensified with a Russian-backed government offensive to capture the rebel-held sector of Syria’s largest city. The United States and its allies […]
"Snowden" Wrongly Portrays the NSA as an Outsized Bogeyman
Edward Snowden is back in the news. Oliver Stone’s sympathetic and conspiracy-heavy biopic landed in theaters this month. Meanwhile, a raft of Snowdenistas are leveraging […]
China's Counter-Terrorism Law and the Uyghurs
On 27 December 2015, China’s National People’s Congress (NPC) passed the country’s first counterterrorism legislation. The law carried sweeping provisions, enabling not only China’s various […]
Innovation Beyond Silicon Valley
Whenever people think about cybersecurity, technology, and innovation, they tend to think about Silicon Valley, but The Cipher Brief asked Bob Stratton, a General Partner […]
The Snowden Movie Does Not Get to the Truth
We still do not know the full Edward Snowden story, and the new Oliver Stone movie about the former NSA contractor makes getting at the […]
Trade Secret Theft Trends: A Closer Look at the Perpetrators
American businesses lose an estimated $160 billion to $480 billion annually due to trade secret misappropriation. To combat this loss, over the past few years […]