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OPINION — Last Tuesday’s Pentagon released 2022 Report on Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China deserves a closer look on subjects [...] More

OPINION — The Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) decisive win of all but five of the twenty-two municipal, city and county elections in Taiwan on November [...] More

For most of Pakistan’s history, the Army Chief has held the most important role in the country. So, the appointment of a new Chief by [...] More

OPINION — “U.S. aid to Ukraine is still probably the most cost-effective investment the U.S. and its strategic partners have recently made in national security, [...] More

EXPERT Q&A — Europeans are already feeling the cold, even as near-full energy storage capacity and mild weather have worked to avert a full-blown European [...] More

OPINION — Today’s Intelligence Community (IC) open source capability is neglected, structurally compromised, and wholly inadequate to protect the United States. The failure of open [...] More

OPINION — “There are a lot of lessons learned coming out of the Ukrainian war. There’s lessons learned for Taiwan. There are lessons learned that [...] More

OPINION — After China’s Xi Jinping consolidated his power this year, private and public-sector China watchers reflexively assigned a negative prognosis for US-China relations and [...] More

Officials from Poland and NATO now say a missile that landed inside of Poland on Tuesday, killing two people looks as if it may have [...] More

EXPERT PERSPECTIVE — The disastrous Russian invasion of Ukraine is now edging into its tenth month. Is there an endgame in sight? Most of the [...] More

OPINION — There ought to be more public discussion over the following quote from the Biden Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) that was released November 8: [...] More

Warner served as Ambassador to Iran from 1993 to 1997, headed Australian Secret Intelligence Service and the Office of National Intelligence from 2009 to 2020, [...] More

OPINION — Within a few years, companies are expected to spend more on public cloud computing than they do on traditional information technology, as the convenience, scalability, [...] More

OPINION — When will the U.S. learn the lessons of Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan? Operation Inherent Resolve has been underway since 2014, in the Iraq/Syria [...] More

OPINION – On the eve of the US midterm elections, it is a good time to reflect on cyber threats to our political process, particularly [...] More

OPINION — Last month, during the CCP’s 20th Party Congress, China’s President and General Secretary Xi Jinping was appointed to an unprecedented third (5-year) term [...] More

OPINION (Updated)– On November 2, Pyongyang launched an unprecedented 23 missiles and, on November 3, launched three additional ballistic missiles, that according to Japanese and [...] More

EXPERT PERSPECTIVE — Russia is intent on inflicting massive destruction to break Ukrainian morale, to improve its bargaining position at a future negotiation, and to [...] More

OPINION – For those who have been privileged enough to read, write for, or brief the Intelligence Community’s President’s Daily Brief (PDB), the following quote [...] More

OPINION — “He who sows the wind will reap the whirlwind, as the saying goes,” said Russian President Vladimir Putin during his multi-hour lecture and press conference on world [...] More

SPONSORED — Across the public and private sector, the pace of investment and scientific advancement in quantum technologies is ever increasing with major initiatives in [...] More

EXPERT Q&A Read also Is a US-China Face-off Over Taiwan Looming for Subscriber+Members The Cipher Brief:  At the 20th CCP Congress, what stood out amid the [...] More

EXPERT Q&A Read also How Dirty and Dangerous will Putin Get in Ukraine for Subscriber+Members The Cipher Brief:  What do you see as the significance of [...] More

OPINION — Africa has replaced the Middle East as the epicenter of global terrorist threats, according to a recent analysis by the United Nations Office [...] More