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Venture Capital Provides the Asymmetric Advantage Needed for National Security

OPINION – Today, we’re experiencing a fast-paced emergence of U.S. national security threats fueled by an even faster-paced advancement of [...] More

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A National Crisis: The Imperative for Improving Civic Education

Ted McConnell is Senior Policy Advisor for CivXNow Coalition, and Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker, is former General Counsel at CIA and NSA and is a [...] More

Beijing's Push to Protect State Secrets puts US Firms at Greater Risk

Kyle Sullivan is China Practice Lead at Martin + Crumpton Group, a global risk intelligence advisory firm based in Arlington, Va. He previously spent [...] More

How NATO is Innovating Toward the Future

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) may have been created in in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations in [...] More

How Machine Learning Impacts National Security

In the latest edition of our State Secrets podcast, Cipher Brief COO Brad Christian talks with Brian Raymond who works for Primer, one of our [...] More

Reimagining Intelligence and National Security Language Programs

Learning and teaching have quickly gone virtual due to coronavirus: schools, universities, museums, libraries, even zoos and gyms are delivering [...] More

The Many Faces of Chairman Kim Jung Un

At the recent December 2019 plenum, Chairman Kim, rather than giving his traditional New Year’s speech, outlined a different strategy toward the US [...] More

Understanding Haftar and the Path Ahead in Libya

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday that the situation in Libya is a “scandal” and expressed his frustration over [...] More

How did Libya get where it is Today?

The Cipher Brief spoke with Ambassador Deborah K. Jones, former U.S. Ambassador to Libya (2013-2015) about the state of play in the country, who [...] More

Iran's Supreme Messaging

When news broke that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was scheduled to deliver the Friday Prayer sermon on January 17 for the first time [...] More

A 2020 U.S. Strategy for Latin America

Patrick Duddy served as the U.S. ambassador to Venezuela from 2007 to 2010. He is now teaches at Duke University where he is also the director of [...] More

NATO's Future Threats

In a declaration issued at the conclusion of last week’s NATO meeting in London, leaders agreed on continuing support for the alliance and they laid [...] More

A JCPOA on Life Support

The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) with Iran is on life support. Despite the pledges of allegiance to its implementation, Iran is now [...] More