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Don’t Permit Iran to Enrich Uranium

Ambassador Joseph DeTrani

Don’t Permit Iran to Enrich Uranium

Ideally, Iran should not be permitted to enrich uranium, even at the 3.67% low enriched uranium level, enough for nuclear reactors to generate [...] More

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Learning Velocity: The Next Strategic Advantage

Bob Pearson

Learning Velocity: The Next Strategic Advantage

Entrepreneurs realize that speed compresses learning. They know some of their initial assumptions will be wrong or only partially right, so going [...] More

Tech/Cyber

The Forty-Year Cyber Policy Failure Congress Refuses to Address

Matt Stern

The Forty-Year Cyber Policy Failure Congress Refuses to Address

Late last month, the former deputy assistant director of the FBI's Cyber Division testified before the House Homeland Security Committee that the [...] More

A Historic Summit between China and North Korea

Ambassador Joseph DeTrani

A Historic Summit between China and North Korea

There was no absence of Chinese and North Korean media coverage of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to North Korea for meetings with Chairman Kim [...] More

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AI Is Speeding Up Intelligence, But Not the System Around It

Geof Kahn

AI Is Speeding Up Intelligence, But Not the System Around It

AI is compressing parts of the intelligence cycle, but modernization is occurring unevenly across collection, analysis, validation, dissemination, [...] More

Economic Security in an Age of Strategic Competition

Calder Walton

Economic Security in an Age of Strategic Competition

There is a growing perception among long-standing US allies that they need to expand commercial relations with the People’s Republic of China (PRC). [...] More

Calder Walton

The Morning Brief: What the PDB Can Offer the Corporate Leadership Team

Phillip Consentino

The Morning Brief: What the PDB Can Offer the Corporate Leadership Team

CEOs of major corporations need to make hugely consequential decisions every day, but many start their mornings in fragmented and reactive [...] More

How Gulf States Turned Crisis Into Confidence

Patrick Weninger

How Gulf States Turned Crisis Into Confidence

The Epidemic of PatriotismHow war, intelligence, technology, and state competence are building a new nationalism in the Gulf.There is an old idea in [...] More

The Forgotten History Moscow Doesn’t Want Remembered

Glenn Corn

The Forgotten History Moscow Doesn’t Want Remembered

Sadly, few in the U.S. and Europe know the complicated history of the Kremlin’s actions in the years leading up to Hitler’s Invasion of the USSR. [...] More

Alex Younger: An Unusually Likeable Human Being, And A Spy

Nick Fishwick

Alex Younger: An Unusually Likeable Human Being, And A Spy

Sir Alex Younger died earlier this week at the age of 62. He had been fighting cancer for some time. Alex was Chief of the Secret Intelligence [...] More

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Remembering Alex Younger: The Intelligence Chief Who Shaped a Generation

Sir Richard Moore

Remembering Alex Younger: The Intelligence Chief Who Shaped a Generation

I don't want to write about Sir Alex Younger, my predecessor as Chief of SIS.I want to write about my friend.I had known about Alex's cancer from the [...] More

Europe

Why the U.S. Cannot Afford to Lose Intelligence Partners

Renee Pruneau Novakoff

Why the U.S. Cannot Afford to Lose Intelligence Partners

THE BLUF: Working with partners is a key intelligence tool. While the US has one of the best if not the best intelligence organizations in the world, [...] More

Renee Pruneau Novakoff

Radical Empathy: The Counterintuitive Skill That Made Me Better at Everything Else

Jennifer Ewbank

Radical Empathy: The Counterintuitive Skill That Made Me Better at Everything Else

There's a moment in every intelligence officer's career when they realize something uncomfortable: to be effective at their job, they must genuinely [...] More