
Will the new Administration bring new opportunity on Afghanistan?
EXPERT PERSPECTIVE / OPINION — In April of 2024, I offered some thoughts in The Cipher Brief on a possible way forward in Afghanistan. That […]
EXPERT PERSPECTIVE / OPINION — In April of 2024, I offered some thoughts in The Cipher Brief on a possible way forward in Afghanistan. That […]
EXPERT INTERVIEW — On the day the Israeli cabinet voted to approve the long-awaited ceasefire-for-hostages deal in Gaza, The Cipher Brief spoke with a former advisor […]
OPINION — The Budapest Memorandum of December 1994 provided security assurances to Ukraine in exchange for that country giving up its nuclear weapons. The Memorandum prohibited Russia, […]
EXPERT INTERVIEW — In one of several eleventh-hour moves, President Joe Biden on Tuesday notified Congress of his intent to remove Cuba from a list of […]
OPINION — Just because they could, they did. That is the gist of a recent New York Times article suggesting the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) made […]
EXPERT INTERVIEW — Lebanon’s parliament elected Joseph Aoun, the commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces, as the country’s new president on January 9, ending a deadlock […]
EXPERT PERSPECTIVE / OPINION – The upcoming peaceful inauguration of the next U.S. president should serve as a reminder to the world of the virtues […]
OPINION — “Whether a President is serious, particularly one like [President-elect] Donald Trump, he says a lot of things he doesn’t follow up on. He also […]
OPINION — The Ukraine war has often been characterized as a precipitating factor in the growing alignment of the United States’ key adversaries—China, Russia, Iran, and […]
OPINION — I’ve been wondering what I would say to my former government colleagues at this time of imminent change if I was still working among […]
Expert View — President-elect Donald Trump said on Thursday that his team is setting up a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the end […]
EXPERT INTERVIEW — Nicolas Maduro is set to be inaugurated for his third term as president of Venezuela on Friday. He will be sworn in […]
EXPERT INTERVIEW — Undersea cables have been dominating the headlines in recent months – specifically, repeated episodes in which damage has been done to this unseen […]
EDITOR’S NOTE — Since Donald Trump’s victory in the November 5 election, The Cipher Brief has reached out to our network for thoughts on what the priorities ought to […]
EXPERT PERSPECTIVE / OPINION — We’ve seen all this before, the U.S. mission in Syria is not mission complete – it was not in 2018 […]
OPINION — Ukrainian forces launched a fresh offensive into Russia’s western Kursk region over the weekend, trying to surprise Russian forces – and the North Korean […]
OPINION — “For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an […]
OPINION — President-elect Donald Trump has reportedly invited Chinese President Xi Jinping to attend the inauguration on January 20th. With this invitation, it appears that Trump […]
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