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A Personal Perspective on 9/11 and the War that Followed

CIPHER BRIEF EXPERT PERSPECTIVE – Just before 3:00 p.m. local time just outside the Strait of Hormuz, the Safety Officer aboard the USS ENTERPRISE called to tell me to turn on the TV because [...] More

A Tradition of Serving with Honor

Admiral James 'Sandy' Winnefeld served for 37 years in the United States Navy. He retired in 2015 after serving four years as the ninth Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the United [...] More

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The High Cost of President Trump's Decision-Making Style

The Administration will start the new year with a new acting Secretary of Defense after President Donald Trump accepted James Mattis’s resignation [...] More

Al Qaeda's Achilles Heel: Leadership

Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri recently released a video calling on Muslims to unite against what he calls an “international infidel alliance”. [...] More

N. Korea, the U.S. and the Strange Path to Singapore

One wonders what the alien creature Griffin, portrayed by Michael Stuhlbarg in Men in Black III, and capable of seeing all possible futures, would [...] More

Wield Creativity as a Weapon against China, Russia & Complacency

The U.S. Navy is facing tough challenges on an anemic budget: China and Russia’s growing Naval prowess; threats proliferating from increasingly [...] More

Paradise Intercepted: Defending Hawaii from North Korea

“Ballistic missile threat inbound to Hawaii . . . this is not a drill.”Now that we know what it feels like for Hawaii to be under ballistic missile [...] More

Seoul Searches for Options as North Korean Missiles Fly

On October 10, as North Korea celebrates the creation of the ruling Worker's Party, the United States and regional allies will brace themselves for [...] More

Harvey Tests Post-Katrina Military Response Reforms

Not since Katrina has the United States been struck by a hurricane as devastating as Harvey. Both inflicted unprecedented damage from floods and [...] More

Realism and North Korea

Every recent U.S. administration (Clinton, Bush, and Obama) has confronted the problem of North Korea’s (DPRK) nuclear weapons program. While [...] More

U.S. Downing of Syrian Warplane: A “Canary in the Coal Mine”

After a U.S. Navy F/A-18E shot down a Syrian SU-22 bomber on Sunday, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs quickly condemned the action, announced [...] More