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On Gaza, Trump Says the Quiet Part Out Loud – and Then Some

OPINION — Embedded in President Trump’s shocking proposal to “own” and develop the Gaza Strip are some uncomfortable truths and even some “common sense,” as he has described it. But then there is [...] More

How is War Fought in the Gray Zone?

How is War Fought in the Gray Zone?
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Beth Sanner is a principal member of The Cipher Brief’s Gray Zone Group, a gathering of experts focused on raising awareness of adversarial activities that are carried out below the threshold of war. [...] More

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Drone Sightings are a Reminder: US Needs Better Drone Defenses

EXPERT INTERVIEW — What’s going on with all the drone sightings? That’s a question on the minds of residents in several northeastern states and - in [...] More

Memo to the President: A 'Perfect Pressure Campaign' Against Iran 

MEMO TO THE PRESIDENT — Since Donald Trump’s victory in the November 5 election, The Cipher Brief has reached out to our network of experts for their [...] More

U.S. Adversaries Create a Web of Threats

EXPERT Q&A — Closer collaboration between China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea - increasingly referred to as the ‘Axis of Authoritarians’ - requires [...] More

Israel's Internal Division are Opportunities for its Adversaries

OPINION — Before Hamas’ attack on October 7, Israel’s security leaders issued multiple warnings that internal strife - then mainly over Netanyahu’s [...] More

After Resignation of Israel's Intelligence Chief, Will Other Heads Roll?

OPINION — The resignation on Monday of Major General Aharon Haliva, head of the Military Intelligence Directorate of the Israeli Defense Forces [...] More

Prigozhin's Final Lesson was that not even He Could Escape Kremlin Rules

OPINION – Wagner Group Leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was a violent man who lived life on a knife’s edge; that he reportedly met a violent end seems both [...] More
Prigozhin's Uncertain Fate

Prigozhin's Uncertain Fate

EXPERT PERPECTIVE — In the wake of Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin’s 36-hour mutiny and the scant and the confusing smoke signals emanating from the [...] More

Prigozhin’s Mutiny: A Reminder About Analytic Humility

OPINION — It appears that the U.S. Intelligence Community scored a success in warning senior leaders that Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin was planning [...] More

A Former Presidential Briefer Rethinks Truth to Power

OPINION — “I think we should stop teaching ‘truth to power’,” a CIA analytic instructor once told me. That was more than a decade ago, when I ran the [...] More