Senior National Security Columnist, The Cipher Brief
Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist for The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on topics that ranged from nuclear weapons to politics. He is the author of Blown to Hell: America’s Deadly Betrayal of the Marshall Islanders. Pincus won an Emmy in 1981 and was the recipient of the Arthur Ross Award from the American Academy for Diplomacy in 2010. He was also a team member for a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 and the George Polk Award in 1978.
OPINION — “Operations to deny adversary hostile use of space could originate in any domain and target on-orbit, ground, cyber, and/or link segments to reduce […]More
OPINION — In 2014, the nation’s two leading nuclear weapons laboratories, Los Alamos and Livermore, jointly identified “a capability gap” in their ability to evaluate […]More
OPINION — “Today I want to talk about Iran-U.S. mutual threat perceptions and deterrence policies, its historical perspective, but more from an Iranian perspective. I’m […]More
OPINION — “Operation and maintenance and military personnel funding [in the Defense Department] typically must be obligated in the year for which they are appropriated. […]More
OPINION — “It is no exaggeration to state that signals intelligence, made possible by Section 702 information, is likely to inform every substantial national security […]More
OPINION — In 1992, Congress passed legislation in the fiscal 1993 Defense Authorization Bill that required the establishment of a five-year program “to assist eligible […]More
OPINION — “The DoD [Department of Defense] seeks to accelerate space-relevant technology development across the commercial space enterprise through numerous innovative programs, to include AFWERX/SpaceWERX.” […]More
OPINION — “During the daily battle rhythm, the DoD [Department of Defense] creates more than 22 terabytes [equal to 22 trillion bytes with a byte […]More
OPINION — “Whereas it is essential that there be maintained in the armed services of the United States the highest standards of democracy, with equality […]More
OPINION — As Congress moves the fiscal 2024 Defense Department authorization and appropriation bills forward with more money to help needed recruitment, a handful of […]More
OPINION — “U.S. [nuclear] warheads were designed and manufactured until the late 1980s and early 1990s. Since then, we have not designed any new nuclear […]More
OPINION — “China views psychological warfare, centered on the manipulation of information to influence adversary decision-making and behavior, as one of several key components of […]More
OPINION — The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (USASMDC) Technical Center has its primary offices at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, although it has other […]More
OPINION — Back in late February, four Boeing B-52H strategic bombers from the 23rd Expeditionary Bomb Squadron (23rd EBS), based at Minot Air Force Base, […]More
OPINION – “Considering the strengthening of Russia as one of the leading centers of development in the modern world and its independent foreign policy as […]More
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