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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

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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

China’s Uneasy Partnerships With Russia and North Korea

Ambassador Joseph DeTrani

China’s Uneasy Partnerships With Russia and North Korea

China’s summit with Russia last month and the reported likely upcoming visit of President Xi Jinping to North Korea are tactical moves that ignore [...] More

Ambassador Joseph DeTrani

From Terror Networks to Hybrid Threats: A Partner Approach to a Growing Threat

Colin Clarke

From Terror Networks to Hybrid Threats: A Partner Approach to a Growing Threat

The hybrid threat challenge facing Europe today is reminiscent of the terrorist threat challenge of the post-9/11 Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) era. [...] More

Christopher Costa

Put the Next Generation to Work: Digital Transformation Has Only Just Begun

Mark Munsell

Put the Next Generation to Work: Digital Transformation Has Only Just Begun

Put the Next Generation to Work: Digital Transformation Has Only Just BegunWe are witnessing a historic bottleneck in the technology sector. [...] More

Before Funding a Record Defense Budget, Congress Should Demand Answers on Iran

Michael C. Casey

Before Funding a Record Defense Budget, Congress Should Demand Answers on Iran

As I listened to Defense Secretary Hegseth testify about the proposed $1.5 Trillion defense budget, the quote from Robert Heinlein, the science [...] More

Part II: When a Machiavellian and a Charismatic Met

Dr. Ursula M. Wilder

Part II: When a Machiavellian and a Charismatic Met

In our pre-summit piece on the Xi/Trump meeting [When a Charismatic and a Machiavellian Meet 12 May] we wrote: "When a gifted political charismatic [...] More

ChinaAsia

Sweden and Denmark are in a Position of Power Over Russia

Joey Gagnard

Sweden and Denmark are in a Position of Power Over Russia

Two straits, six thousand kilometers apart, are defining the global balance of power in 2026. The first, Hormuz, is closed by force and heavily [...] More

Joey Gagnard

Rethinking the Intelligence Cycle for the AI Era

Geof Kahn

Rethinking the Intelligence Cycle for the AI Era

There’s a profound assumption embedded in much of today’s conversation about AI and intelligence: better technology will solve our core problems. We [...] More

Roses, Trees, and Power: The Symbolism Behind the Trump-Xi Summit

Kenneth Dekleva

Roses, Trees, and Power: The Symbolism Behind the Trump-Xi Summit

Last week’s high-level summit in Beijing between President Trump and President Xi achieved few traditional ‘deliverables’ between the two leaders, [...] More

The administration needs a better relationship with the Vatican

Ambassador Joseph DeTrani

The administration needs a better relationship with the Vatican

President Reagan formed an alliance with Pope John Paul II in the 1980s that contributed to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.This is a [...] More

Ambassador Joseph DeTrani