# The Cipher Brief Site ID: 26883708 Markdown version: append .md to any URL Total sections: 568 ## Content Sections - [Recommended Reads](./editorial/recommended-reads/index.md): Section: Recommended Reads (40 posts) - [Cyber](./cyber/index.md): Section: Cyber (14 posts) - [Nuclear](./nuclear/index.md): Section: Nuclear (207 posts) - [Intelligence](./intelligence/index.md): Section: Intelligence (441 posts) - [International](./international/index.md): Section: International (644 posts) - [Middle East](./middle-east/index.md): Section: Middle East (2842 posts) - [Iran](./middle-east/iran/index.md): Section: Iran (285 posts) - [Saudi Arabia](./middle-east/saudi-arabia/index.md): Section: Saudi Arabia (63 posts) - [Israel](./middle-east/israel/index.md): Section: Israel (108 posts) - [Syria](./middle-east/syria/index.md): Section: Syria (62 posts) - [NATO](./nato/index.md): Section: NATO (64 posts) - [Iraq](./middle-east/iraq/index.md): Section: Iraq (40 posts) - [Terrorism](./terrorism/index.md): Section: Terrorism (515 posts) - [Espionage](./espionage/index.md): Section: Espionage (82 posts) - [Economic](./economic/index.md): Section: Economic (10 posts) - [Cyber Initiatives Group](./cyber-initiatives-group/index.md): Section: Cyber Initiatives Group (12 posts) - [DoD](./dod/index.md): Section: DoD (157 posts) - [Disinformation](./disinformation/index.md): Section: Disinformation (8 posts) - [CIA](./cia/index.md): Section: CIA (168 posts) - [National Security](./national-security/index.md): Section: National Security (595 posts) - [Africa](./africa/index.md): Section: Africa (491 posts) - [North Africa](./africa/north-africa/index.md): Section: North Africa - An Egyptian teenage boy waves an Egyptian flag in Tahrir Square at sunsetMore of my images from the Egyptian Revolution:|An Egyptian teenage boy waves an Egyptian flag in Tahrir Square at sunsetMore of my images from the Egyptian Revolution: (59 posts) - [Europe](./europe/index.md): Section: Europe (1870 posts) - [Russia](./europe/russia/index.md): Section: Russia (554 posts) - [Central and Eastern Europe](./europe/central-and-eastern-europe/index.md): Section: Central and Eastern Europe (321 posts) - [Ukraine](./europe/ukraine/index.md): Section: Ukraine (322 posts) - [Asia](./asia/index.md): Section: Asia (2193 posts) - [North Korea](./asia/north-korea/index.md): Section: North Korea (133 posts) - [China](./asia/china/index.md): Section: China (383 posts) - [Afghanistan](./asia/afghanistan/index.md): Section: Afghanistan (121 posts) - [military](./military/index.md): Section: military (148 posts) - [Entertainment](./entertainment/index.md): Section: Entertainment (193 posts) - [Reporting](./reporting/index.md): Section: Reporting (4687 posts) - [Best of Enemies: The Last Great Spy Story of the Cold War](./books/best-of-enemies/index.md): Section: Best of Enemies: The Last Great Spy Story of the Cold War - By Gus Russo & Eric Dezenhall (1 posts) - [Betrayal & Resilience: My Story of the 1998 U.S. Embassy Bombings by Ambassador Prudence Bushnell](./books/betrayal-resilience-my-story-of-the-1998-u-s-embassy-bombings-by-ambassador-prudence-bushnell/index.md): Section: Betrayal & Resilience: My Story of the 1998 U.S. Embassy Bombings by Ambassador Prudence Bushnell (1 posts) - [The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben MacIntyre](./books/the-spy-and-the-traitor-the-greatest-espionage-story-of-the-cold-war-by-ben-macintyre/index.md): Section: The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben MacIntyre (1 posts) - [The Skripal Files: The Life and Near Death of a Russian Spy by Mark Urban](./books/the-skripal-files-the-life-and-near-death-of-a-russian-spy-by-mark-urban/index.md): Section: The Skripal Files: The Life and Near Death of a Russian Spy by Mark Urban (2 posts) - [Beirut Rules: The Murder of a CIA Station Chief and Hezbollah's War Against America by Fred Burton a](./books/beirut-rules-the-murder-of-a-cia-station-chief-and-hezbollahs-war-against-america-by-fred-burton-and-samuel-m-katz/index.md): Section: Beirut Rules: The Murder of a CIA Station Chief and Hezbollah's War Against America by Fred Burton a (1 posts) - [Mike4](./books/mike4/index.md): Section: Mike4 (1 posts) - [The Spy Who Was Left Behind: Russia, the United States, and the True Story of the Betrayal and Assas](./books/the-spy-who-was-left-behind-russia-the-united-states-and-the-true-story-of-the-betrayal-and-assassination-of-a-cia-agent-by-michael-pullara/index.md): Section: The Spy Who Was Left Behind: Russia, the United States, and the True Story of the Betrayal and Assas (1 posts) - [red war](./books/red-war/index.md): Section: red war (1 posts) - [Dawn of the Code War](./books/dawn-of-the-code-war/index.md): Section: Dawn of the Code War (1 posts) - [The Enemy of My Enemy](./books/the-enemy-of-my-enemy/index.md): Section: The Enemy of My Enemy (1 posts) - [Spy Pilot](./books/spy-pilot/index.md): Section: Spy Pilot (1 posts) - [Strategic Warning Intelligence](./books/strategic-warning-intelligence/index.md): Section: Strategic Warning Intelligence (1 posts) - [Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called "Alien"](./books/breaking-and-entering-the-extraordinary-story-of-a-hacker-called-alien/index.md): Section: Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called "Alien" (1 posts) - [Putin’s World](./books/putins-world/index.md): Section: Putin’s World (1 posts) - [Code Name Lise](./books/code-name-lise/index.md): Section: Code Name Lise (1 posts) - [How We Win](./books/how-we-win/index.md): Section: How We Win (1 posts) - [The Killer Collective](./books/the-killer-collective/index.md): Section: The Killer Collective (1 posts) - [The Back Channel](./books/the-back-channel/index.md): Section: The Back Channel (1 posts) - [One Nation Under Drones](./books/one-nation-under-drones/index.md): Section: One Nation Under Drones (1 posts) - [To Catch A Spy](./books/to-catch-a-spy/index.md): Section: To Catch A Spy (1 posts) - [The Moscow Rules](./books/the-moscow-rules/index.md): Section: The Moscow Rules (1 posts) - [Leading Intelligence Analysis](./books/leading-intelligence-analysis/index.md): Section: Leading Intelligence Analysis (1 posts) - [Bytes, Bombs, and Spies](./books/bytes-bombs-and-spies/index.md): Section: Bytes, Bombs, and Spies (1 posts) - [The Protected](./books/the-protected/index.md): Section: The Protected (1 posts) - [The Targeter](./books/the-targeted/index.md): Section: The Targeter (1 posts) - [Surprise Kill Vanish](./books/surprisekillvanish/index.md): Section: Surprise Kill Vanish (1 posts) - [Victor in the Jungle](./books/victor-in-the-jungle/index.md): Section: Victor in the Jungle (1 posts) - [The New Girl](./books/the-new-girl/index.md): Section: The New Girl (1 posts) - [The Spy in Moscow Station](./books/the-spy-in-moscow-station/index.md): Section: The Spy in Moscow Station (1 posts) - [Rules of Engagement](./books/rules-of-engagement/index.md): Section: Rules of Engagement (1 posts) - [Bossert](./books/bossert/index.md): Section: Bossert - [Madame Fourcade’s Secret War](./books/madame-fourcades-secret-war/index.md): Section: Madame Fourcade’s Secret War - Madame Fourcade’s Secret War (2 posts) - [Inside The Five-Sided Box](./books/inside-the-five-sided-box/index.md): Section: Inside The Five-Sided Box (1 posts) - [Guardian: Life in the Crosshairs of the CIA's War on Terror](./books/guardian/index.md): Section: Guardian: Life in the Crosshairs of the CIA's War on Terror (1 posts) - [Public Diplomacy](./books/public-diplomacy/index.md): Section: Public Diplomacy (1 posts) - [The Killing In The Consulate](./books/the-killing-in-the-consulate/index.md): Section: The Killing In The Consulate (1 posts) - [Empty Hearts](./books/empty-hearts/index.md): Section: Empty Hearts (1 posts) - [The Compatriots](./books/the-compatriots/index.md): Section: The Compatriots (1 posts) - [Sailing True North](./books/sailing-true-north/index.md): Section: Sailing True North (1 posts) - [The Spy Behind Home Plate](./books/the-spy-behind-home-plate/index.md): Section: The Spy Behind Home Plate (1 posts) - [Black Site Book](./books/black-site-book/index.md): Section: Black Site Book (1 posts) - [Life Undercover](./books/life-undercover/index.md): Section: Life Undercover (1 posts) - [Agent Running In The Field](./books/agent-running-in-the-field/index.md): Section: Agent Running In The Field (1 posts) - [Hunting The Caliphate](./books/hunting-the-caliphate/index.md): Section: Hunting The Caliphate (1 posts) - [The Spy](./books/the-spy/index.md): Section: The Spy (1 posts) - [The Man Who Solved The Market](./books/the-man-who-solved-the-market/index.md): Section: The Man Who Solved The Market (1 posts) - [The Nuclear Spies](./books/the-nuclear-spies/index.md): Section: The Nuclear Spies (1 posts) - [The Russia Trap](./books/the-russia-trap/index.md): Section: The Russia Trap (1 posts) - [When Reagan Sent In The Marines](./books/when-reagan-sent-in-the-marines/index.md): Section: When Reagan Sent In The Marines (1 posts) - [Agents of Influence](./books/agents-of-influence/index.md): Section: Agents of Influence (1 posts) - [Russians Among Us](./books/russians-among-us/index.md): Section: Russians Among Us (1 posts) - [Spy Sites of New York City](./books/spy-sites-of-new-york-city/index.md): Section: Spy Sites of New York City (1 posts) - [Secrets and Spies](./books/secrets-and-spies/index.md): Section: Secrets and Spies (1 posts) - [The Hacker and The State](./books/the-hacker-and-the-state/index.md): Section: The Hacker and The State (1 posts) - [The Ambassadors](./books/the-ambassadors/index.md): Section: The Ambassadors (1 posts) - [Putin's People](./books/putins-people/index.md): Section: Putin's People (2 posts) - [China's Western Horizon](./books/chinas-western-horizon/index.md): Section: China's Western Horizon (1 posts) - [Burn In](./books/burn-in/index.md): Section: Burn In (1 posts) - [Reigning the Future](./books/reigning-the-future/index.md): Section: Reigning the Future (1 posts) - [Active Measures](./books/active-measures/index.md): Section: Active Measures (1 posts) - [Chinese Communist Espionage](./books/chinese-communist-espionage/index.md): Section: Chinese Communist Espionage (1 posts) - [In The Dark of War](./books/in-the-dark-of-war/index.md): Section: In The Dark of War - [Mission Career Transition](./books/mission-career-transition/index.md): Section: Mission Career Transition - [Dead Doubles](./books/dead-doubles/index.md): Section: Dead Doubles (1 posts) - [America in the World](./books/america-in-the-world/index.md): Section: America in the World (1 posts) - [Geospatial Intelligence: Origins and Evolution](./books/geospatial-intelligence-origins-and-evolution/index.md): Section: Geospatial Intelligence: Origins and Evolution (1 posts) - [Law and Leviathan](./books/law-and-leviathan/index.md): Section: Law and Leviathan (1 posts) - [The New Map](./books/the-new-map/index.md): Section: The New Map (1 posts) - [The Spy Master](./books/the-spy-master/index.md): Section: The Spy Master (1 posts) - [Never Mind We'll Do It Ourselves](./books/never-mind-well-do-it-ourselves/index.md): Section: Never Mind We'll Do It Ourselves (1 posts) - [On All Fronts](./books/on-all-fronts/index.md): Section: On All Fronts (1 posts) - [The Spymaster of Baghdad](./books/the-spymaster-of-baghdad/index.md): Section: The Spymaster of Baghdad (1 posts) - [2034: A Novel of the Next World War](./books/2034-a-novel-of-the-next-world-war/index.md): Section: 2034: A Novel of the Next World War (1 posts) - [The Centaur's Dilemma](./books/the-centaurs-dilemma/index.md): Section: The Centaur's Dilemma (1 posts) - [The Folly and the Glory](./books/the-folly-and-the-glory/index.md): Section: The Folly and the Glory (1 posts) - [Clarity in Crisis](./books/clarity-in-crisis/index.md): Section: Clarity in Crisis (1 posts) - [Congress Overwhelmed](./books/congress-overwhelmed/index.md): Section: Congress Overwhelmed (1 posts) - [Three Wise Men](./books/three-wise-men/index.md): Section: Three Wise Men (1 posts) - [Japanese Foreign Intelligence and Grand Strategy](./books/japanese-foreign-intelligence-and-grand-strategy/index.md): Section: Japanese Foreign Intelligence and Grand Strategy (1 posts) - [The Cellist](./books/the-cellist/index.md): Section: The Cellist (1 posts) - [The Cover Wife](./books/the-cover-wife/index.md): Section: The Cover Wife (1 posts) - [The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden](./books/the-rise-and-fall-of-osama-bin-laden/index.md): Section: The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden (1 posts) - [This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends](./books/this-is-how-they-tell-me-the-world-ends/index.md): Section: This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends (1 posts) - [License To Parent](./books/license-to-parent/index.md): Section: License To Parent (1 posts) - [Sisters of the Revolution](./books/sisters-of-the-revolution/index.md): Section: Sisters of the Revolution - [The Afghanistan Papers](./books/the-afghanistan-papers/index.md): Section: The Afghanistan Papers (1 posts) - [The Anatomy of a Spy](./books/the-anatomy-of-a-spy/index.md): Section: The Anatomy of a Spy (1 posts) - [The Recruiter](./books/the-recruiter/index.md): Section: The Recruiter (1 posts) - [Cyberspace in Peace and War](./books/cyberspace-in-peace-and-war/index.md): Section: Cyberspace in Peace and War (1 posts) - [Asian American Spies](./books/asian-american-spies/index.md): Section: Asian American Spies (1 posts) - [In The Camps](./books/in-the-camps/index.md): Section: In The Camps (1 posts) - [Our Man In Vienna](./books/our-man-in-vienna/index.md): Section: Our Man In Vienna (1 posts) - [Sisters of Resistance](./books/sisters-of-resistance/index.md): Section: Sisters of Resistance (1 posts) - [Disruption](./books/disruption/index.md): Section: Disruption (1 posts) - [From Warsaw With Love](./books/from-warsaw-with-love/index.md): Section: From Warsaw With Love (1 posts) - [Venezuela Photo](./books/venezuela-photo/index.md): Section: Venezuela Photo (1 posts) - [Spies Lies and Algorithms](./books/spies-lies-and-algorithms/index.md): Section: Spies Lies and Algorithms (1 posts) - [Academic Incubator Staff](./books/a-drone-image/index.md): Section: Academic Incubator Staff (1 posts) - [Blown to Hell](./books/blown-to-hell/index.md): Section: Blown to Hell (1 posts) - [Chainalysis](./books/chainalysis/index.md): Section: Chainalysis (1 posts) - [Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy](./books/red-carpet-hollywood-china-and-the-global-battle-for-cultural-supremacy/index.md): Section: Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy (1 posts) - [The New Fire](./books/the-new-fire/index.md): Section: The New Fire (1 posts) - [Conway, Cassady, Goebert](./books/conway-cassady-goebert/index.md): Section: Conway, Cassady, Goebert (1 posts) - [Clash](./books/clash/index.md): Section: Clash (1 posts) - [Vampire Rules](./books/vampire-rules/index.md): Section: Vampire Rules (1 posts) - [The Fourth Man](./books/the-fourth-man/index.md): Section: The Fourth Man (1 posts) - [The Spy Who Knew Too Much](./books/the-spy-who-knew-too-much/index.md): Section: The Spy Who Knew Too Much (1 posts) - [Afghan Napoleon](./books/afghan-napoleon/index.md): Section: Afghan Napoleon (1 posts) - [Degrade and Destroy](./books/degrade-and-destroy/index.md): Section: Degrade and Destroy (1 posts) - [The Turtle and the Dreamboat](./books/the-turtle-and-the-dreamboat/index.md): Section: The Turtle and the Dreamboat (1 posts) - [Victor in Trouble](./books/victor-in-trouble/index.md): Section: Victor in Trouble (1 posts) - [The Real Special Relationship](./books/the-real-special-relationship/index.md): Section: The Real Special Relationship (1 posts) - [A Spy in Plain Sight](./books/a-spy-in-plain-sight/index.md): Section: A Spy in Plain Sight (1 posts) - [Putin's Trolls](./books/putins-trolls/index.md): Section: Putin's Trolls (1 posts) - [The Avoidable War](./books/the-avoidable-war/index.md): Section: The Avoidable War (1 posts) - [Wise Gals](./books/wise-gals/index.md): Section: Wise Gals (1 posts) - [Need to Know](./books/need-to-know/index.md): Section: Need to Know (1 posts) - [Cyber Warrior](./books/cyber-warrior/index.md): Section: Cyber Warrior - [In the Twinkling of an Eye](./books/in-the-twinkling-of-an-eye/index.md): Section: In the Twinkling of an Eye (1 posts) - [Georgia Wood](./books/georgia-wood/index.md): Section: Georgia Wood - Georgia Wood is a Program Manager and Research Associate with the Strategic Technologies Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) (1 posts) - [The Blackbriar Genesis](./books/the-blackbriar-genesis/index.md): Section: The Blackbriar Genesis (1 posts) - [The Hard Road Out](./books/the-hard-road-out/index.md): Section: The Hard Road Out (1 posts) - [Command](./books/command/index.md): Section: Command (1 posts) - [Spies and Lies](./books/spies-and-lies/index.md): Section: Spies and Lies (1 posts) - [The Secret History of the Five Eyes](./books/the-secret-history-of-the-five-eyes/index.md): Section: The Secret History of the Five Eyes (1 posts) - [The Double Agent](./books/the-double-agent/index.md): Section: The Double Agent (1 posts) - [The Negotiator's Cross](./books/the-negotiators-cross/index.md): Section: The Negotiator's Cross (1 posts) - [Code Name Blue Wren](./books/code-name-blue-wren/index.md): Section: Code Name Blue Wren (1 posts) - [A Private Spy](./books/a-private-spy/index.md): Section: A Private Spy (1 posts) - [Striking Back](./books/striking-back/index.md): Section: Striking Back (1 posts) - [Spy Fail](./books/spy-fail/index.md): Section: Spy Fail (1 posts) - [Pashtun](./books/pashtun/index.md): Section: Pashtun - [The Pashtuns](./books/the-pashtuns/index.md): Section: The Pashtuns (1 posts) - [Our Man in Tokyo](./books/our-man-in-tokyo/index.md): Section: Our Man in Tokyo (1 posts) - [Secret City](./books/secret-city/index.md): Section: Secret City (1 posts) - [The COVID-19 Intelligence Failure](./books/the-covid-19-intelligence-failure/index.md): Section: The COVID-19 Intelligence Failure (1 posts) - [Ruslan Trad](./books/ruslan-trad/index.md): Section: Ruslan Trad - Ruslan Trad is a Resident Fellow for Security Research at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab. Ruslan is interested in Eurasia, Syria, conflicts, hybrid warfare, and mercenary groups. Before joining DFRLab, he worked as a risk analyst, consultant, and freelance journalist. Ruslan is also author and co-author of three books and a wide range of articles related to the Syrian Civil War, Russian foreign policy, and security. - [Assignment China](./books/assignment-china/index.md): Section: Assignment China (1 posts) - [Age of Danger](./books/age-of-danger/index.md): Section: Age of Danger (1 posts) - [Fixing American Cybersecurity](./books/fixing-american-cybersecurity/index.md): Section: Fixing American Cybersecurity (1 posts) - [The Dirty Tricks Department](./books/the-dirty-tricks-department/index.md): Section: The Dirty Tricks Department (1 posts) - [Unwavering](./books/unwavering/index.md): Section: Unwavering (1 posts) - [Judging Iran](./books/judging-iran/index.md): Section: Judging Iran (1 posts) - [A True American Patriot](./books/a-true-american-patriot/index.md): Section: A True American Patriot (1 posts) - [In the Nation's Service](./books/in-the-nations-service/index.md): Section: In the Nation's Service (1 posts) - [Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West](./books/spies-the-epic-intelligence-war-between-east-and-west/index.md): Section: Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West (1 posts) - [The Declassification Engine](./books/the-declassification-engine/index.md): Section: The Declassification Engine (1 posts) - ["American Traitor"](./books/american-traitor/index.md): Section: "American Traitor" - [American Traitor](./books/american-traitor-2/index.md): Section: American Traitor (1 posts) - [Tremors in the Blood](./books/tremors-in-the-blood/index.md): Section: Tremors in the Blood (1 posts) - [By All Means Available](./books/by-all-means-available/index.md): Section: By All Means Available (1 posts) - [Containing History](./books/containing-history/index.md): Section: Containing History (1 posts) - [The Bourne Defiance](./books/the-bourne-defiance/index.md): Section: The Bourne Defiance (1 posts) - [Emily de La Bruyère](./books/emily-de-la-bruyere/index.md): Section: Emily de La Bruyère - Emily de La Bruyère is senior fellow at Foundation for Defense of Democracy with a focus on China policy. She pioneered novel data collection and analysis tools tailored to Beijing’s strategic and institutional structures, and has extensive Chinese language research and program management experience. La Bruyère has testified before the Senate Banking Committee and US-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Her work was also the first Western analysis to document Beijing’s China Standards 2035 national plan. She also co-founded Horizon Advisory, a consulting firm focused on the implications of China’s competitive approach to geopolitics. (1 posts) - [Valiant Women](./books/valiant-women/index.md): Section: Valiant Women (1 posts) - [The Peacock and the Sparrow](./books/the-peacock-and-the-sparrow/index.md): Section: The Peacock and the Sparrow (1 posts) - [The Future of National Intelligence](./books/the-future-of-national-intelligence/index.md): Section: The Future of National Intelligence (1 posts) - [Escape from Kabul](./books/escape-from-kabul/index.md): Section: Escape from Kabul (1 posts) - [The Dead Drop: A Novel](./books/the-dead-drop-a-novel/index.md): Section: The Dead Drop: A Novel (1 posts) - [The Sister: North Korea's Kim Yo Jong, the Most Dangerous Woman in the World](./books/the-sister-north-koreas-kim-yo-jong-the-most-dangerous-woman-in-the-world/index.md): Section: The Sister: North Korea's Kim Yo Jong, the Most Dangerous Woman in the World (1 posts) - [Confronting Saddam](./books/confronting-saddam/index.md): Section: Confronting Saddam (1 posts) - [Crown Cloak & Dagger](./books/crown-cloak-dagger/index.md): Section: Crown Cloak & Dagger (1 posts) - [Palestine 1936](./books/palestine-1936/index.md): Section: Palestine 1936 (1 posts) - [Moscow X: A Novel](./books/moscow-x-a-novel/index.md): Section: Moscow X: A Novel (1 posts) - [The Sisterhood](./books/the-sisterhood/index.md): Section: The Sisterhood - The Sisterhood: The Secret History of Women at the CIA by Liza Mundy / Crown (1 posts) - [Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine](./books/conflict-the-evolution-of-warfare-from-1945-to-ukraine/index.md): Section: Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine (1 posts) - [Women in Intelligence: The Hidden History of Two World Wars](./books/women-in-intelligence-the-hidden-history-of-two-world-wars/index.md): Section: Women in Intelligence: The Hidden History of Two World Wars (1 posts) - [Target Tehran: How Israel Is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination – and Secret Diplomacy – to](./books/target-tehran-how-israel-is-using-sabotage-cyberwarfare-assassination-and-secret-diplomacy-to-stop-a-nuclear-iran-and-create-a-new-middle-east/index.md): Section: Target Tehran: How Israel Is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination – and Secret Diplomacy – to (1 posts) - 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(32 posts) - [Michael Vickers](./experts/michael-vickers/index.md): Section: Michael Vickers - Dr. Michael Vickers served as Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence from 2011 to 2015 and as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations, Low Intensity Conflict, and Interdependent Capabilities from 2007 to 2011.  Earlier in his career, he served as an operations officer with the CIA and as a U.S. Army Special Forces officer and operator.  Mike is best known as the mastermind of the covert action program that defeated the Soviet Army in Afghanistan and helped bring an end to the Cold War.  His exploits against the Soviets in Afghanistan were featured in the book and movie Charlie Wilson’s War.  More recently, he played central roles in our campaigns to dismantle and defeat al-Qa’ida and in the operation that killed Usama Bin Ladin.  He is the recipient of the presidential national security medal, our nation’s highest award in intelligence.  His memoir, By All Means Available: Memoirs of a Life in Intelligence, (6 posts) - [Ambassador Joseph DeTrani](./experts/joseph-detrani/index.md): Section: Ambassador Joseph DeTrani - Ambassador Joseph DeTrani served as the U.S. Representative to the Korea Energy Development Organization (KEDO), as well as former CIA director of East Asia Operations. He also served as Associate Director of National Intelligence and Mission Manager for North Korea, was the Special Envoy for the Six-Party Talks with North Korea, and served as the Director of the National Counter Proliferation Center, ODNI.  He currently serves on the Board of Managers at Sandia National Laboratories. (175 posts) - [Alex Vatanka](./experts/alex-vatanka/index.md): Section: Alex Vatanka - Alex Vatanka is a Senior Fellow at the Middle East Institute. He specializes in Middle Eastern regional security affairs with a particular focus on Iran. He was formerly a Senior Analyst at Jane’s Information Group in London. Alex is also a Senior Fellow in Middle East Studies at the US Air Force Special Operations School (USAFSOS) at Hurlburt Field and teaches as an Adjunct Professor at DISAS at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. (2 posts) - [Admiral Robert J. Papp, Jr., USCG (Ret.)](./experts/admiral-robert-j-papp-jr-uscg-ret/index.md): Section: Admiral Robert J. Papp, Jr., USCG (Ret.) - Admiral Robert J. Papp, Jr., USCG (Ret.) was the State Department's Special Representative for the Arctic from July of 2014 to January 2017. In that position, he led the effort to advance U.S. interests in the Arctic Region, with a focus on Arctic Ocean governance, climate change, economic, environmental, and security issues in the Arctic region, when the United States held the chairmanship of the Arctic Council from 2015-2017. Prior to his appointment, Admiral Papp served as the 24th Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, and led the largest component of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). As a flag officer, Admiral Papp served as Commander, Coast Guard Atlantic Area; as the Chief of Staff of the Coast Guard and Commanding Officer of Coast Guard Headquarters; as Commander, Ninth Coast Guard District; and as Director of Reserve and Training. - [Lt. Gen. James R. Clapper (Ret.)](./experts/james-r-clapper/index.md): Section: Lt. Gen. James R. Clapper (Ret.) - Lt. Gen. James Clapper served from 2010 – 2017 as the Director of National Intelligence. He served in two administrations as the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and directed the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA), transforming it into the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). (5 posts) - [Jonathan Rotner](./experts/jonathan-rotner/index.md): Section: Jonathan Rotner - During his time at MITRE, Jonathan Rotner has focused on applying Commercial off the Shelf (COTS) Technology to Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) applications. His projects have ranged from smartphones, to 3D printing, to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), to mixing all 3, to swarms, to trying to stop the drones that we've created. He has worked on internal research programs and sponsor projects, strategy teams to technology development, and enjoys working with STEM in the community. (1 posts) - [Hans Kristensen](./experts/hans-kristensen/index.md): Section: Hans Kristensen - Hans M. Kristensen is Director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists where he provides the public with analysis and background information about the status of nuclear forces and the role of nuclear weapons. He specializes in using open sources and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in his research to increase transparency of nuclear arsenals and is a frequent consultant to and is widely referenced in the news media on the role and status of nuclear weapons. (2 posts) - [Thomas Karako](./experts/thomas-karako/index.md): Section: Thomas Karako - Thomas Karako is the director of the Missile Defense Project and a senior fellow with the Defense and Security Department at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where he arrived in 2014. His research focuses on national security, missile defense, nuclear deterrence, and public law. In 2010–2011, he was an American Political Science Association congressional fellow, working with the professional staff of the House Armed Services Committee and the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces on U.S. strategic forces policy, nonproliferation, and NATO. (6 posts) - [Ambassador Alexander Vershbow](./experts/ambassador-alexander-vershbow/index.md): Section: Ambassador Alexander Vershbow - Ambassador Alexander "Sandy" Vershbow is a distinguished fellow at the Atlantic Council's Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security. Vershbow was the deputy secretary general of NATO from February 2012 to October 2016. Prior to that, he served for three years as the U.S. assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs. He previously served as U.S. ambassador to NATO (1998-2001), the Russian Federation (2001-05), and the Republic of Korea (2005-08). (1 posts) - [Jonathan Hillman](./experts/jonathan-hillman/index.md): Section: Jonathan Hillman - Jonathan E. Hillman is senior fellow for geoeconomics at the Council on Foreign Relations. His expertise spans economic and security issues, including investment, trade, infrastructure, and technology. He is the author of The Digital Silk Road: China’s Quest to Wire the World and Win the Future and The Emperor’s New Road: China and the Project of the Century. (1 posts) - [David Daoud](./experts/david-daoud/index.md): Section: David Daoud - David Daoud is a research analyst on Hezbollah and Lebanon. He previously worked as an advisor on the Middle East on Capitol Hill. David was also a research associate on terrorist groups at the Potomac Institute, a law clerk at the Egyptian American Rule of Law Association, and an intern at UNIFIL headquarters in South Lebanon. David holds a BS in Government and History as well as a JD with a concentration on International Law and the Laws of Armed Conflict from Suffolk University in Boston. He is fluent in Arabic and Hebrew. - [Admiral Robert J. Papp](./experts/admiral-robert-j-papp/index.md): Section: Admiral Robert J. Papp - Admiral Robert J. Papp, Jr., USCG (Ret.) was the State Department's Special Representative for the Arctic from July of 2014 to January 2017. In that position, he led the effort to advance U.S. interests in the Arctic Region, with a focus on Arctic Ocean governance, climate change, economic, environmental, and security issues in the Arctic region, when the United States held the chairmanship of the Arctic Council from 2015-2017. Prior to his appointment, Admiral Papp served as the 24th Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, and led the largest component of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). As a flag officer, Admiral Papp served as Commander, Coast Guard Atlantic Area; as the Chief of Staff of the Coast Guard and Commanding Officer of Coast Guard Headquarters; as Commander, Ninth Coast Guard District; and as Director of Reserve and Training. (1 posts) - [Daniel Hoffman](./experts/daniel-hoffman/index.md): Section: Daniel Hoffman - Hoffman served as a three-time station chief and a senior executive clandestine service officer with assignments included tours of duty in the former Soviet Union, Europe, and war zones in the Middle East and South Asia. Hoffman also served as director of the CIA's Middle East and North Africa Division. He is currently a national security analyst with Fox News. (51 posts) - [Mark-Roger De Souza](./experts/mark-roger-de-souza/index.md): Section: Mark-Roger De Souza - [Bob Griffin](./experts/bob-griffin/index.md): Section: Bob Griffin - Robert Griffin is currently the Managing Partner for DVI Equity Partners a Private Equity Investment arm of Diamond Ventures. As the Managing Partner he focuses on technology investments that are concentrated on delivering disruptive or disintermediating technology in areas of National Security, Law Enforcement, critical infrastructure, and emerging trends. Mr. Griffin has been a key player and successful serial entrepreneur in the Software and Services industry for more than 40 years. In Oct. of 2011 he facilitated the sale of his company, i2, to IBM into their Industry Solutions, Software Product Group, where he remained as the General Manager for the Safer Planet and Smarter Cities brand until February of 2017. Mr. Griffin had the global leadership responsibility for solutions that address the Intelligence and Law Enforcement Industries, for the development and deployment of Counter Fraud and Financial Crimes solutions and for solutions that make cities more resilient and sustainable (Smarter Cities). Mr (2 posts) - [Ali Soufan](./experts/ali-soufan/index.md): Section: Ali Soufan - Ali Soufan is a former FBI Supervisory Special Agent who investigated and supervised highly sensitive and complex international terrorism cases, including the East Africa Embassy Bombings, the attack on the USS Cole, and the events surrounding 9/11. Mr. Soufan also serves as a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council. - [Alex Finley](./experts/alex-finley/index.md): Section: Alex Finley - Alex Finley is a former officer of the CIA’s Directorate of Operations, where she served in West Africa and Europe. She has experience working with foreign liaison and military partners, and received an award for her outstanding contributions to the counterterrorism mission. Before joining the CIA, Alex was a journalist, covering Capitol Hill, the Pentagon, and the Department of Energy. She reported on issues related to national security, intelligence, and homeland security. Alex currently works as an adjunct professor, teaching about terrorism and disinformation / covert influence. (4 posts) - [Tim Willasey-Wilsey](./experts/tim-willasey-wilsey/index.md): Section: Tim Willasey-Wilsey - Tim Willasey-Wilsey served for over 27 years in the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office and is now Visiting Professor of War Studies at King's College, London. His book “The Spy and the Devil” will be published in the UK on 8th May and in the U.S. on 16th September. His first overseas posting was in Angola during the Cold War followed by Central America during the instability of the late 1980s. His final years were focused mostly on South Asia. (60 posts) - [Andy Weber](./experts/andy-weber/index.md): Section: Andy Weber - Weber also served as an advisor in the Pentagon on Threat Reduction Policy and serving a foreign service officer in Saudi Arabia, Germany, Kazakhstan and Hong Kong. Weber now serves on the Board of the Arms Control Association and the James Martin Center for Non-proliferation Studies International Advisory Council. - [William Courtney](./experts/william-courtney/index.md): Section: William Courtney - William Courtney is a former U.S. ambassador to Kazakhstan and Georgia. He is an adjunct senior fellow at RAND and professor of policy analysis at the RAND School of Public Policy. (2 posts) - [General David Petraeus (Ret.)](./experts/gen-david-petraeus/index.md): Section: General David Petraeus (Ret.) - General David Petraeus served more than 37 years in the U.S. military with six consecutive commands, five of which were combat, including command of the Multi-National Force-Iraq during the Surge, U.S. Central Command, and Coalition and U.S. Forces in Afghanistan. He is a partner in the KKR global investment firm and chairs the firm’s global institute. (8 posts) - [Sebastian J. Bae](./experts/sebastian-j-bae/index.md): Section: Sebastian J. Bae - Sebastian J. Bae, a defense analyst at the RAND Corporation. He specializes in defense wargaming, emerging technologies, counterinsurgency, and strategy and doctrine for the U.S. Army and Marine Corps. Previously, he served six years in the Marine Corps infantry, leaving as a Sergeant. He deployed to Iraq in 2009. He has previously published in Foreign Policy, War on the Rocks, Strategy Bridge, Task & Purpose, the Diplomat, and Georgetown Security Studies Review. - [Benjamin Powell](./experts/benjamin-powell/index.md): Section: Benjamin Powell - Benjamin Powell co-chairs the cybersecurity and privacy practice and artificial intelligence practice and is a partner at WilmerHale.  Mr. Powell served as General Counsel to the first three Directors of National Intelligence, Special Assistant to the President and associate White House Counsel, Air Force officer, work at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, corporate counsel at a software company in Silicon Valley, and part of the trial team that obtained the largest antitrust jury verdict in US history. - [Cipher Brief Experts](./experts/cipher-brief-experts/index.md): Section: Cipher Brief Experts (1 posts) - [Intel Brief](./experts/intel-brief/index.md): Section: Intel Brief (402 posts) - [Paul R. Pillar](./experts/paul-r-pillar/index.md): Section: Paul R. Pillar - Paul R. Pillar is Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Center for Security Studies of Georgetown University and an Associate Fellow of the Geneva Center for Security Policy. He retired in 2005 from a 28-year career in the U.S. intelligence community. His senior positions included National Intelligence Officer for the Near East and South Asia, Deputy Chief of the DCI Counterterrorist Center, and Executive Assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence. - [Rob Joyce](./experts/rob-joyce/index.md): Section: Rob Joyce - Rob served 34 years at the NSA, where he spent his final years as the head of the Agency’s cybersecurity directorate. He also served on the White House National Security Council as a Special Assistant to the President and Cybersecurity Coordinator, as well as Acting Homeland Security Advisor. Throughout his career, he led operations pursuing the most sophisticated hackers and innovated technologies to protect vital national assets — including the the US classified networks and nuclear authorization codes. He remains dedicated to upholding our national security in the cyber realm. (3 posts) - [Gen. Keith Alexander (Ret.) and Jamil Jaffer](./experts/gen-keith-alexander-ret-and-jamil-jaffer/index.md): Section: Gen. Keith Alexander (Ret.) and Jamil Jaffer (1 posts) - [Calder Walton](./experts/calder-walton/index.md): Section: Calder Walton - Calder Walton is Director of Research for the Intelligence Project at Harvard’s Kennedy School. He is the author of Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West. He is an advisor to the strategic intelligence company, Strider Technologies. (8 posts) - [Christopher Costa](./experts/christopher-costa/index.md): Section: Christopher Costa - Christopher P. Costa is the Executive Director, International Spy Museum, and an adjunct associate professor with Georgetown University’s Security Studies Program, Walsh School of Foreign Service.  He was special assistant to the president and senior director for counterterrorism at the National Security Council from 2017 to 2018. (6 posts) - [Martin Petersen](./experts/martin-petersen/index.md): Section: Martin Petersen - Martin Petersen spent 33 years with the CIA, retiring in February 2005 as Deputy Executive Director and Acting Executive Director. In the course of his agency career, he ran two large analytic units (The Office of East Asian Analysis and the Office of Asian Pacific Latin America Analysis) before becoming Associate Deputy Director of Intelligence for Strategic Plans and Programs, the first Chief Human Resources Officer for CIA, and Deputy Executive Director. He is the author of City of Lost Souls, A Novel of Shanghai 1932. (5 posts) - [Ellen McCarthy](./experts/ellen-mccarthy/index.md): Section: Ellen McCarthy - Ellen McCarthy is Chairwoman and CEO of the Trust in Media Cooperative. She has over three decades of national security service in a variety of leadership roles that span numerous intelligence organizations, most recently serving as the Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Intelligence and Research. She’s currently a senior fellow at the Belfer Center at Harvard University. (6 posts) - [Chris Savos](./experts/chris-savos/index.md): Section: Chris Savos - Savos served for 22 years at the Central Intelligence Agency, where he earned the Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal. He ran analytical units following the Middle East and South and East Asia. Savos was also Deputy Director of the Weapons Intelligence, Nonproliferation, and Arms Control Center; served on the National Intelligence Council; and spent several years in the Directorate of Operations. - [Stephanie Bellistri](./experts/stephanie-bellistri/index.md): Section: Stephanie Bellistri - Stephanie Bellistri served as Deputy Chief of Operations in CIA’s Counterterrorism Center and as Deputy Chief of WMD Counterterrorism and Chief of Interagency Relations on the Afghan Task Force. She also served as CIA Liaison to US Atlantic Command, Special Assistant to the Associate Deputy Director for Counterintelligence and Chief of Iran Branch in CIA’s Counterproliferation Division. She is a partner at New North Ventures. (1 posts) - [Alec Bierbauer](./experts/alec-bierbauer/index.md): Section: Alec Bierbauer - Alec Bierbauer is the CEO of Blackrock Strategy LLC and co-author of “Never Mind, We’ll Do It Ourselves, The inside Story of How a Team of Renegades Broke Rules, Shattered Barriers, and Launched a Drone Warfare Revolution.” During his government service, Alec served on active duty in the US Army, and then as a government civilian at DIA and the Pentagon before finishing his government career in the Directorate of Operations at the CIA as a Case Officer. While at CIA, Alec served as the Program Manager for the design, build and implementation of the armed predator program. Alec’s other assignments include serving in multiple war and conflict zone assignments. Alec’s post-government service at Blackrock Strategy LLC focuses on helping select corporations and non-governmental organizations mitigate risk in dynamically changing environments. These activities include threat/vulnerability assessments, market entry due diligence, liaison and cooperative efforts with foreign governments to mitigating corporate risks - [Brad Christian](./experts/brad-christian/index.md): Section: Brad Christian - Brad Christian is COO and Executive Editor of The Cipher Brief's Open Source Report.  Follow him on LinkedIn. (11 posts) - [Matt Scott](./experts/matt-scott/index.md): Section: Matt Scott - Matt Scott, an Army intelligence veteran, is the president of Apira Federal, a national security AI innovator.  He has built and led several private sector companies specializing in technology adoption in the IC, and is a trustee of the Intelligence and National Security Foundation. (3 posts) - [Rob Bassett Cross](./experts/rob-bassett-cross/index.md): Section: Rob Bassett Cross - Robert Bassett Cross MC is the CEO and founder of Adarga, one of the UK’s leading developers of artificial intelligence software, serving customers in National Security and Defence. Robert has applied his experience as a former British Army officer, leading teams on counter-terrorism operations in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere around the world, to build an intelligent platform that allows users to analyze vast amounts of disparate, complex data at speed to discover the deep and mission-critical insights that drive faster and better decisions. After leaving the British Army, Rob joined J.P. Morgan as an investment banker in the corporate finance group where he advised international corporate customers from a number of sectors across the spectrum of corporate finance advisory, mergers and acquisitions, and offerings roles. Rob graduated with a degree in law (LLB (Hons)) from Exeter University. - [Beth Sanner](./experts/beth-e-sanner/index.md): Section: Beth Sanner - Beth Sanner served in the U.S. Intelligence Community for 35 years holding senior roles at ODNI and CIA.  She was former Deputy Director for National Intelligence at ODNI, and served as daily briefer to the president during the Trump Administration. (13 posts) - [Emily Harding](./experts/emily-harding/index.md): Section: Emily Harding - Emily Harding is Vice President of the Defense and Security Department and Director of the Intelligence, National Security, and Technology (INT) Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). She joined CSIS from the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), where she was deputy staff director. (5 posts) - [Tess Newton Cain](./experts/tess-newton-cain/index.md): Section: Tess Newton Cain - [Liesl Jordan](./experts/liesl-jordan/index.md): Section: Liesl Jordan - Liesl Jordan has had a 27-year career spanning national security, multilateral organisations, and the private sector. Her career has been characterised by international postings, including with the United Nations Development Programme in New Delhi and with the Australian High Commission in London, where she collaborated with UK intelligence heads and Five Eyes partners to coordinate security threat responses. Currently, Liesl serves as the CEO of Connect2Effect, a Canberra-based firm that assists UK and US companies in entering the Australian market. Additionally, she holds the position of senior Fellow with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute and serves on the board of the National Spy Museum of Australia. (4 posts) - [Rear Adm. (Ret.) Mark Montgomery](./experts/rear-adm-ret-mark-montgomery/index.md): Section: Rear Adm. (Ret.) Mark Montgomery - Rear Adm. (Ret.) Mark Montgomery is a senior director at the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation (CCTI) at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He directs CSC 2.0, which works to implement the recommendations of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission.  Montgomery is a principal member of the Cyber Initiatives Group. (26 posts) - [Anastasiia Carrier, Contributing Journalist](./experts/anastasiia-carrier-contributing-journalist/index.md): Section: Anastasiia Carrier, Contributing Journalist (1 posts) - [Linda Weissgold](./experts/linda-weissgold/index.md): Section: Linda Weissgold - Linda Weissgold spent 37-years at CIA. Before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, she was an analyst and leader of analytic programs focused on the Middle East. She served as head of the CIA’s Office of Terrorism Analysis and helped to identify Usama Bin Laden’s location and the rise of ISIS. For more than two years, she served as President George W. Bush’s intelligence briefer. (1 posts) - [Ken Westbrook](./experts/ken-westbrook/index.md): Section: Ken Westbrook - Ken Westbrook is the Founder and CEO of Stop Scams Alliance and a distinguished fellow at the Wilson Center. A 33-year veteran of the US Intelligence Community, he served at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).  He subsequently held senior positions with two Fortune 500 software firms, co-invented a patented security technology, and created and taught a course in Information Management at Georgetown University. (3 posts) - [Ralph Goff](./experts/ralph-goff/index.md): Section: Ralph Goff - Ralph Goff is a 35-year veteran of the CIA where he was a 6-time Chief of Station with extensive service in Europe, the Middle East, and Central and South Asia including several war zones. He served as Chief of Operations for Europe and Eurasia. Goff also served as Chief of CIA's National Resources Division, working extensively with "C Suite" level US private sector executives in the financial, banking, and security sectors. (6 posts) - [Chip Usher](./experts/chip-usher/index.md): Section: Chip Usher - William “Chip” Usher is the Senior Director for Intelligence at the Special Competitive Studies Project. Prior to SCSP, Chip served 32 years in the Central Intelligence Agency where he held a variety of executive positions. Chip is a former member of the Senior Intelligence Service and has expertise on East Asia, the Near East, and Eurasia. (10 posts) - [Geoffrey Corn](./experts/geoff-corn/index.md): Section: Geoffrey Corn - Geoffrey Corn is the George R. Killam, Jr. Chair of Criminal Law and Director of the Center for Military Law and Policy, Texas Tech University School of Law and a Distinguished Fellow with the Gemunder Center for Defense Strategy (part of the Jewish Institute for National Security in America). A retired U.S. Army Judge Advocate Officer, he served as the Army's senior law of war advisor. (11 posts) - [Andy Dunn](./experts/andy-dunn/index.md): Section: Andy Dunn - Dunn retired from the CIA in 2021 after a 29-year career as an analyst and Agency leader. He last served as Deputy Assistant Director of the Near East Mission Center from 2020 to 2021 and as Chief of Analysis in the Iran Mission Center from 2018 to 2020. Previous assignments included the Counterterrorism Mission Center and two war zone tours. Dunn served as a commissioned officer in the US Army. (1 posts) - [Andrew Boyd](./experts/andrew-boyd/index.md): Section: Andrew Boyd - Andy Boyd was a Senior Intelligence Service officer in the Central Intelligence Agency’s Directorate of Operations (DO). His most recent assignment was Director of the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence (CCI) which is responsible for intelligence collection, analysis, and operations focused on foreign cyber threats to US interests. - [Dave Pitts](./experts/dave-pitts/index.md): Section: Dave Pitts - Pitts is a senior national security executive, board member, and advisor. His background includes great power competition, global affairs, counterterrorism, and special operations. Pitts served as the Assistant Director of CIA for South and Central Asia, Chief of National Resources Division, senior leadership positions in the Counterterrorism Center, and led CIA’s two largest Field Stations. He is a co-founder of The Cipher Brief’s Gray Zone Group. (20 posts) - [Rear Adm. (Ret.) Mike Studeman](./experts/mike-studeman/index.md): Section: Rear Adm. (Ret.) Mike Studeman - Rear Adm. (Ret.) Mike Studeman was former Commander of the Office of Naval Intelligence. He also served as Director of the National Maritime Intelligence-Integration Office (NMIO) and as principal advisor to the Director of National Intelligence as National Intelligence Manager-Maritime, as well as the Director of Intelligence (J2) at U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, Honolulu and Director of Intelligence (J2) at U.S. Southern Command, Miami (2017-2019.) (1 posts) - [Lucy Minicozzi-Wheeland](./experts/lucy-minicozzi-wheeland/index.md): Section: Lucy Minicozzi-Wheeland - Lucy Minicozzi-Wheeland is an Eastern Europe and Caucasus specialist who recently earned her master's degree from Harvard. She previously worked as a Research Assistant and an Administrator at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Intelligence Project. She spent a year and a half living in Georgia as a Boren Fellow, Critical Language Scholar, and Invited Lecturer, and seven months living in Odesa, Ukraine, as a Fulbright Student Researcher. (2 posts) - [Admiral Mike Rogers (Ret.)](./experts/admiral-mike-rogers-ret/index.md): Section: Admiral Mike Rogers (Ret.) - Admiral Mike Rogers (Ret.) served as Director of the NSA, commander of the U.S. Cyber Command. He also served as the Commander of the Tenth Fleet and Commander of the United States Fleet Cyber Command. He was also the director of intelligence for the Joint Chiefs of Staff and U.S. Indo-Pacific Command. (2 posts) - [Philip Wasielewski](./experts/philip-wasielewski/index.md): Section: Philip Wasielewski - Philip Wasielewski is the Director of the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Center for the Study of Intelligence and Nontraditional Warfare and a Senior Fellow in FPRI’s Eurasia Program. He previously served as a paramilitary case officer with a 31-year career in the CIA’s Directorate of Operations. (2 posts) - [Edward Bogan](./experts/edward-bogan/index.md): Section: Edward Bogan - Edward Bogan is a retired CIA Operations Officer with 24 years of experience in national security and intelligence operations in South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Europe. He is a two time Chief of Station (COS) and three time Chief of Base (COB). Bogan served five of his seven PCS assignments in three designated war/combat zones, as well as Acting positions in countries in armed conflict. - [Paula Doyle](./experts/paula-doyle/index.md): Section: Paula Doyle - Paula Doyle served as Associate Deputy Director for Operations at CIA, where she oversaw worldwide HUMINT operations and activities that required the use of air, land, maritime, space-based and cyber technologies. She was the Deputy National Counterintelligence Executive from 2012-2014, where she oversaw the official US Damage Assessment resulting from Private Manning’s 2010 unauthorized disclosures to Wikileaks and led the IC’s extensive review of Edward Snowden’s unauthorized disclosures and defection to Russia. She led three CIA stations in Europe, the Levant, and Asia. (3 posts) - [Isaac Harris CDR USN (Ret.)](./experts/isaac-harris/index.md): Section: Isaac Harris CDR USN (Ret.) - Isaac “Ike” Harris, CDR USN (Ret.), is an adjunct fellow at the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation (CCTI) at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He most recently served as an advisor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy on matters relating to China and technology competition. (2 posts) - [Darrell Blocker](./experts/darrell-blocker/index.md): Section: Darrell Blocker - Blocker is Founder of DMB Consulting Services. He is a career intelligence officer with 15 field assignments over 32 years as a USAF analyst and a CIA operative (28 years); with time spent in Africa, Asia, Europe, Central America and Pakistan and four domestic assignments in the United States. His TEDxUGA presentation is titled, “LISTEN MORE, SPEAK LESS: LESSONS IN KINDNESS FROM A CIA OPERATIVE.” (1 posts) - [Michelle Grisé](./experts/michelle-grise/index.md): Section: Michelle Grisé - Michelle Grisé is a senior policy researcher at RAND and a professor of policy analysis at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Her research focuses on Iran, Russian foreign policy and military strategy, South Asia, and international law. Before joining RAND in 2018, she clerked at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. (2 posts) - [Matthew Pottinger](./experts/matthew-pottinger/index.md): Section: Matthew Pottinger - Matthew Pottinger served for four years in senior roles on the National Security Council staff, including as deputy national security advisor and as senior director for Asia. He fought in Iraq and Afghanistan as a US Marine during three combat deployments between 2007 and 2010. He spent the late 1990s and early 2000s in China as a reporter for Reuters and the Wall Street Journal. He is currently Chairman of the China Program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. - [Stephen P. Friot / University of Oklahoma Press](./experts/stephen-p-friot-university-of-oklahoma-press/index.md): Section: Stephen P. Friot / University of Oklahoma Press - [Jon Darby, Former Director of Operations, National Security Agency/CSS](./experts/jon-darby/index.md): Section: Jon Darby, Former Director of Operations, National Security Agency/CSS - Darby is a nearly 39-year veteran of the U.S. Intelligence Community, primarily serving in the National Security Agency (NSA)/Central Security Service (CSS). As DO, he oversaw all of NSA’s collection, code-breaking, analysis and production of signals intelligence (SIGINT). | - [Annie Fixler](./experts/annie-fixler/index.md): Section: Annie Fixler - Annie Fixler is the director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, contributing to the cyber-enabled economic warfare project and the Transformative Cyber Innovation Lab. She is also a research fellow at FDD and works on issues related to the national security implications of cyberattacks on economic targets, adversarial strategies and capabilities, and U.S. cyber resilience. (5 posts) - [Johanna Yang](./experts/johanna-yang/index.md): Section: Johanna Yang - Johanna “Jo” Yang is a research and editorial associate at the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Her research focuses nation-state cyber threats, critical infrastructure protection, and U.S. cybersecurity policy. (4 posts) - [Metropolitan Borys Gudziak](./experts/metropolitan-borys-gudziak/index.md): Section: Metropolitan Borys Gudziak - Borys Gudziak was ordained a Bishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) on August 26, 2012. Since 2012, he has been a member of the UGCC Permanent Synod. He has been the head of the Department of External Church Relations of the UGCC since 2014. On February 18, 2019, Bishop Gudziak was appointed Metropolitan and Archbishop of Philadelphia for Ukrainian Catholics in the United States of America. On June 4, 2019, Metropolitan Archbishop Gudziak was enthroned as the leader of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia at the Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Philadelphia. (1 posts) - [Dr. Tom Inglesby](./experts/dr-tom-inglesby/index.md): Section: Dr. Tom Inglesby - Dr. Inglesby is the Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. He was Chair of the Board of Scientific Counselors for the Center for Preparedness and Response at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from 2010 to 2019. He also has served as an advisor to the US Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS), Defense, and Homeland Security, and he has testified before Congress on many occasions. - [Greg Levesque](./experts/greg-levesque/index.md): Section: Greg Levesque - Greg Levesque is the CEO and co-founder of Strider Technologies. As a leading expert on strategic intelligence, Greg works with government leaders around the world and Fortune 500 companies to identify, assess, and respond to state-sponsored risk. Prior to founding Strider, Greg co-founded an intelligence firm, Pointe Bello. Previously, he led the China Services team at Crumpton Group and served as Business Advisory Manager at the U.S.-China Business Council. (1 posts) - [Counterfeit Spies](./experts/counterfeit-spies/index.md): Section: Counterfeit Spies (1 posts) - [Mike Cozad](./experts/mike-cozad/index.md): Section: Mike Cozad - Mark Cozad is a senior international defense researcher at RAND, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution. He is also a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. (1 posts) - [Ambassador Michael Carpenter](./experts/ambassador-michael-carpenter/index.md): Section: Ambassador Michael Carpenter - Ambassador Michael Carpenter is Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Europe at the National Security Council. He previously served as Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). He previously served in the Pentagon as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine, Eurasia, and Conventional Arms Control; worked in the White House as a foreign policy advisor to then-Vice President Biden and as Director for Russia at the National Security Council; and was a career Foreign Service Officer with the State Department. (1 posts) - [General Charles “Chuck” Wald, USAF (Ret.)](./experts/general-charles-chuck-wald-usaf-ret/index.md): Section: General Charles “Chuck” Wald, USAF (Ret.) - General Charles Wald, USAF (ret.), former Deputy Commander of United States European Command (EUCOM) – General Charles Wald is a proven leader who specializes in global military strategy and development. As EUCOM Deputy Commander he was responsible for developing the air campaign in Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. Gen. Wald has also served as the Director of Strategic Planning and Policy at USAF Headquarters, Chief of USAF Combat Terrorism Center, and Deputy Chief of Staff for Air and Space Operations at the Pentagon. In 35 years as a USAF command pilot, Gen. Wald accumulated more than 3,600 flying hours and 430 combat hours. (2 posts) - [Orville Schell](./experts/orville-schell/index.md): Section: Orville Schell - Orville Schell is the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society in New York. He is a former professor and Dean at the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. He is a Fellow at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University, a Senior Fellow at the Annenberg School of Communications at USC and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. - [Ryan C. Berg](./experts/ryan-c-berg/index.md): Section: Ryan C. Berg - Ryan C. Berg is director of the Americas Program and head of the Future of Venezuela Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is also an adjunct professor at the Catholic University of America and a course coordinator at the United States Foreign Service Institute. (1 posts) - [Lawrence O. Gostin](./experts/lawrence-o-gostin/index.md): Section: Lawrence O. Gostin - Lawrence O. Gostin is Distinguished University Professor, Georgetown University’s highest academic rank conferred by the University President. Prof. Gostin is Faculty Director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and is the Founding O’Neill Chair in Global Health Law. (1 posts) - [Ian Brzezinski](./experts/ian-brzezinski/index.md): Section: Ian Brzezinski - Ian Brzezinski is a resident senior fellow with the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security and is a member of the Atlantic Council’s Strategic Advisors Group. He also leads the Brzezinski Group, which provides strategic insight and advice to government and commercial clients. Brzezinski served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for Europe and NATO policy (2001-05) and served in senior policy positions in the US Department of Defense and the US Congress. - [James S. Gilmore III](./experts/james-s-gilmore-iii/index.md): Section: James S. Gilmore III - Ambassador James S. Gilmore III was the 68th Governor of Virginia from 1998 to 2002. He chaired the Republican National Committee in 2001. He also served as the U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe during the first Trump administration. (1 posts) - [Lt. Gen. Charles L. Moore Jr. (Ret.)](./experts/lt-gen-charles-l-moore-jr/index.md): Section: Lt. Gen. Charles L. Moore Jr. (Ret.) - Lt. Gen. Charles L. Moore Jr. is a retired United States Air Force lieutenant general who last served as Deputy Commander of the United States Cyber Command. He previously was the Deputy Director for Global Operations of the Joint Staff. (1 posts) - [Mariam Davlashelidze](./experts/mariam-davlashelidze/index.md): Section: Mariam Davlashelidze - Mariam Davlashelidze has extensive experience in cybersecurity research and policy analysis. She is currently studying at Montgomery College for her associate degree in cybersecurity, having previously received a master’s degree from the University of Massachusetts, Boston, in negotiation and conflict resolution. She is also a research intern with the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. (1 posts) - [Arseniy Yatsenyuk](./experts/arseniy-yatsenyuk/index.md): Section: Arseniy Yatsenyuk - Arseniy Yatsenyuk served two terms as Prime Minister of Ukraine — from February 27, 2014 to November 27, 2014 and November 27, 2014 to April 14, 2016. He also served as Minster of Economy, Foreign Minister and Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada. In 2014, he started the Narodnyi Front (People's Front) Political Party. He is Chairman fo the Kyiv Security Forum and Founder of Open Ukraine Foundation. - [Michael Salazar](./experts/michael-salazar/index.md): Section: Michael Salazar - Michael Salazar is a cybersecurity and national security strategist specializing in emerging threats and technology policy. He is a Senior Manager in Microsoft's Security Business Development team, where he leads initiatives in cybersecurity strategy, partnerships, and AI-driven security solutions. He holds graduate degrees in Business Administration and Global Security, with expertise in the intersection of technology, intelligence, and counterterrorism. (1 posts) - [Bradley Bowman](./experts/bradley-bowman/index.md): Section: Bradley Bowman - Bradley Bowman serves as senior director of the Center on Military and Political Power at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, where he focuses on U.S. defense strategy and policy. He has served as a national security advisor to members of the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees, as well as an active duty U.S. Army officer, Black Hawk pilot, and assistant professor at West Point. (1 posts) - [David P. Mansdoerfer](./experts/david-p-mansdoerfer/index.md): Section: David P. Mansdoerfer - David P. Mansdoerfer currently serves as Owner & Managing Director of DPM & Associates, a political consulting, public affairs and communications firm. David also serves as an adjunct professor for Health Policy and Politics at Pepperdine University School of Public Policy and as a board member for the Stop Scams Alliance. During the first Trump Administration, David served as a senior executive service presidential appointee at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from 2017 to August 2019, serving as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health (Operations and Management), HHS Chief Labor Negotiator, and as Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Administration. (1 posts) - [Chasing Shadows](./experts/chasing-shadows/index.md): Section: Chasing Shadows (1 posts) - [Nikhil Kumar](./experts/nikhil-kumar/index.md): Section: Nikhil Kumar - Nikhil Kumar is Executive Editor at TIME. He was previously TIME's South Asia Bureau Chief and a senior editor working on international coverage. Before rejoining TIME, he served as Deputy Global Editor at The Messenger and was CNN's New Delhi Bureau Chief. He also worked at Grid, and as an editor and foreign correspondent for the Independent and the Evening Standard. (1 posts) - [Colin Shea-Blymer](./experts/colin-shea-blymer/index.md): Section: Colin Shea-Blymer - Colin Shea-Blymyer is a Research Fellow at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), where he works on the CyberAI Project. His research has spanned safe reinforcement learning, formal methods, adversarial machine learning, and AI ethics. Previously, he was a graduate researcher with MITRE, where he helped establish the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) program on adversarial machine learning research at the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCOE). (1 posts) - [Bill Browder](./experts/bill-browder/index.md): Section: Bill Browder - Bill Browder is CEO of Hermitage Capital Management and Head of the Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign. Browder was the largest foreign investor in Russia until 2005, when he was denied entry to the country and declared “a threat to national security” for exposing corruption in Russian state-owned companies. (1 posts) - [Colin Ahern](./experts/colin-ahern/index.md): Section: Colin Ahern - Colin Ahern was appointed the first-ever Chief Cyber Officer of the State of New York by Governor Kathy Hochul in June 2022. He previously served as the Acting Director of New York City’s cyber defense agency, and commanded a cyberspace operations company in the Army. (1 posts) - [Ksenia Kirillova](./experts/ksenia-kirillova/index.md): Section: Ksenia Kirillova - Ksenia Kirillova is an investigative journalist and analyst focused on analyzing Russian society and mechanisms of action of Russian propaganda (including in the US) along with Russian “soft power,” “active measures” and foreign policy. Ms. Kirillova is the author of several hundred articles, including research on Russian propaganda and soft power. While living in Russia, she worked as a journalist for the largest Ural media holding Ural Worker (2008-2010) and the Ural branch of Novaya Gazeta (2011-2013). - [Vasily Gatov](./experts/vasily-gatov/index.md): Section: Vasily Gatov - Vasily Gatov is a Russian media researcher and author based in Boston. Gatov has over 30 years of professional experience in domestic and international media. Gatov is currently working on a book about the re-emergence of totalitarian censorship of the Russian media. Gatov served as an executive and strategist for several Russian media companies, including RenTV network, Media3 (Russia’s largest print conglomerate in 2007-2012), and RIA Novosti, a national multimedia news agency. While working for RIA Novosti (2011-2013), Gatov founded Novosti Media Lab, the research and development company, fostering innovation in communication and the social impact of media. - [Liana Fix](./experts/liana-fix/index.md): Section: Liana Fix - Liana Fix is a fellow for Europe at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). She is a historian and political scientist, with expertise in German and European foreign and security policy, European security, transatlantic relations, Russia, Eastern Europe, and European China policy. Dr. Fix is also the author of A New German Power? Germany’s Role in European Russia Policy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). She is an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University in the Center for German and European Studies and the Center for Eurasian, Russian, and East European Studies. - [Mohamad Mirghahari](./experts/mohamad-mirghahari/index.md): Section: Mohamad Mirghahari - Mohamad Mirghahari is the National Security Fellow at Seton Hall University’s School of Diplomacy and International Relations. Mirghahari previously served in the Department of Defense and with Special Operations in key leadership positions, in support of counterterrorism and Special Operations initiatives that have significantly impacted mission-critical outcomes across the globe. (1 posts) - [Matin Bek](./experts/matin-bek/index.md): Section: Matin Bek - Matin Bek is a fellow at New America's Future Security Program and a former senior Afghan government official. He served as Chief of Staff to the President and was a member of Afghanistan’s Peace Negotiation Team in the Doha talks with the Taliban. He previously led the country’s local governance body and served as Deputy Director of the National Directorate of Security. Bek holds master’s degrees in Security Studies from Georgetown University and in Political Science from Jawaharlal Nehru University, as well as a bachelor’s degree from Delhi University. (3 posts) - [Steven Moore](./experts/steven-moore/index.md): Section: Steven Moore - Steven Moore is a former Republican chief of staff in the US House of Representatives who has worked on Republican campaigns for most of his career. He arrived in Ukraine on day five of the war to help. He now spends all day every day building conservative support for Ukraine. He is executive producer on A Faith Under Siege, which tells the story of Ukrainian Christians who have been tortured and murdered by the Russians for their faith. He also writes a Substack column “Tales from WWIII – A Beginner’s Guide to the End of the World.” (1 posts) - [Oleksiy Goncharenko](./experts/oleksiy-goncharenko/index.md): Section: Oleksiy Goncharenko - Oleksiy Goncharenko is a member of the Ukrainian parliament, member of the Ukrainian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, and President of the PACE Committee on Migration, Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons. (1 posts) - [Max Boot](./experts/max-boot/index.md): Section: Max Boot - Max Boot is a historian, best-selling author and foreign-policy analyst. He is the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick senior fellow for national security studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and a weekly columnist for The Washington Post. - [Kori Schake](./experts/kori-schake/index.md): Section: Kori Schake - Kori Schake is a senior fellow and the director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). Before joining AEI, Dr. Schake was the deputy director-general of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. She has had a distinguished career in government, working at the US State Department, the US Department of Defense, and the National Security Council at the White House. She has also taught at Stanford, West Point, Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, National Defense University, and the University of Maryland. - [Libby Lange](./experts/libby-lange/index.md): Section: Libby Lange - Libby Lange is a Director of Intelligence at the Special Competitive Studies Project. Prior to SCSP, Libby worked as an Intel Analyst at Graphika, where she focused on Chinese state-linked influence operations and public health misinformation. Prior to Graphika, she served as a speechwriter and communications manager for Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, accompanying the President on multiple state visits. Libby holds an M.A. in Global Affairs from Yale University and a B.A. in Political Science from National Taiwan University. (1 posts) - [Thomas Graham](./experts/thomas-graham/index.md): Section: Thomas Graham - Thomas E. Graham is a distinguished fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. His book, Getting Russia Right, was published in September, 2023. He is a cofounder of Yale University’s Russian, East European, and Eurasian studies program and sits on its faculty steering committee. He is also a research scholar at Yale’s MacMillan Center. He has been a lecturer in global affairs and political science since 2011, teaching courses on U.S.-Russian relations and Russian foreign policy, as well as cybersecurity and counterterrorism. Graham was special assistant to the president and senior director for Russia on the National Security Council staff from 2004 to 2007, during which he managed a White House-Kremlin strategic dialogue. He was director for Russian affairs on the staff from 2002 to 2004. - [Neil Thomas](./experts/neil-thomas/index.md): Section: Neil Thomas - Neil Thomas is a Fellow on Chinese Politics at Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis, where he studies elite politics, political economy, and foreign policy. Previously, he was a Senior Analyst for China and Northeast Asia at Eurasia Group, a Senior Research Associate at MacroPolo, and a lecturer at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy. He has testified before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. - [Christopher Covino](./experts/christopher-covino/index.md): Section: Christopher Covino - Christopher Covino is an experienced policy professional specializing in cybersecurity and AI. He serves as Senior Cyber Policy Advisor at The Rosslyn Group, working with clients including CISA, and as Senior Policy Advisor for the Institute for AI Policy and Strategy. Previously, he was Policy Director for Cybersecurity in the LA Mayor's Office. Chris holds a Master of Public Administration from the University of Southern California. (1 posts) - [Oscar Delaney](./experts/oscar-delaney/index.md): Section: Oscar Delaney - Oscar Delaney researches the national security implications of frontier AI systems at the Institute for AI Policy and Strategy. He has previously worked in biosecurity policy and quantitative trading. (1 posts) - [Donald Blersch](./experts/donald-blersch/index.md): Section: Donald Blersch - Donald Blersch is SVP of Government Innovation at Clearspeed; Chair of the INSA Security Policy Reform Committee (Intelligence and National Security Alliance); and a former Senior Coordinator for Security Infrastructure at the Bureau of Diplomatic Security in the U.S. Department of State. (1 posts) - [Oleh Kiper](./experts/oleh-kiper/index.md): Section: Oleh Kiper - Oleh Kiper has served as the Governor of Odesa Oblast since May 30, 2023. Previously, he served as the Deputy Chief Prosecutor and then Chief Prosecutor for the Kyiv City Prosecutor's Office. - [Ronan Mainprize](./experts/ronan-mainprize/index.md): Section: Ronan Mainprize - Dr. Ronan P. Mainprize is an Ax:son Johnson Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Statecraft and Strategic Communication. His research is broadly focused on the role of intelligence agencies in the creation and implementation of strategy and grand strategy. (1 posts) - [Kelly A. Grieco](./experts/kelly-a-grieco/index.md): Section: Kelly A. Grieco - Kelly A. Grieco is a Senior Fellow with the Reimagining US Grand Strategy Program at the Stimson Center, where her work focuses on US foreign policy and defense policy, addressing questions about military strategy, force structure, military alliances, air operations, and the future of war. - [Colonel Maximilian K. Bremer](./experts/colonel-maximilian-k-bremer/index.md): Section: Colonel Maximilian K. Bremer - Colonel Maximilian K. Bremer, U.S. Air Force, is the director of the Special Programs Division at Air Mobility Command. - [Alexander Khara](./experts/alexander-khara/index.md): Section: Alexander Khara - Alexander Khara is CEO of the Centre for Defence Strategies in Ukraine. (1 posts) - [Fabian Villalobos](./experts/fabian-villalobos/index.md): Section: Fabian Villalobos - Fabian E. Villalobos is a senior engineer at RAND and a professor of policy analysis at the RAND Graduate School of Public Policy. He is an inaugural fellow of RAND's Global Scholar Program. He manages RAND's Engineering and Applied Sciences Speaker Seminar Series. - [Gracelin Baskaran](./experts/gracelin-baskaran/index.md): Section: Gracelin Baskaran - Gracelin Baskaran is director of the Critical Minerals Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). She is a mining economist, and her primary expertise is in critical minerals and trade. - [Tamerlan Vahabov](./experts/tamerlan-vahabov/index.md): Section: Tamerlan Vahabov - Tamerlan Vahabov is former advisor to the Director of the Defense Procurement Agency of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. - [Emmanouil M. Karatarakis](./experts/emmanouil-m-karatarakis/index.md): Section: Emmanouil M. Karatarakis - Emmanouil M. Karatarakis is a National Security & Defense Correspondent. Former Senior Advisor, Greek Ministries of Defense and Finance and in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister of Greece. He's worked for CNBC in London and as TIME Magazine's Correspondent in Athens. He is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London, the Foreign Press Association of Greece and a former member of the Association of American Correspondents in London. He is a graduate of the London School of Economics (Departments of Government and International Relations)​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ (10 posts) - [Trent Emeneker](./experts/trent-emeneker/index.md): Section: Trent Emeneker - Trent Emeneker is the Blue UAS Lead at the Defense Innovation Unit in the Department of Defense. - [Isaac Stone Fish](./experts/isaac-stone-fish/index.md): Section: Isaac Stone Fish - Isaac Stone Fish is the CEO and founder of Strategy Risks, a business intelligence firm which quantifies corporate exposure to China, and helps companies and entities manage and reduce their China risk. He is the author of America Second (Knopf, 2022), a book about Beijing's influence in the United States. He is also a visiting fellow at the Atlantic Council, an adjunct at New York University, and the author of a column on China risk for Barron's. - [Jacek Siewiera](./experts/jacek-siewiera/index.md): Section: Jacek Siewiera - Jacek Siewiera served as Poland's Secretary of State and Head of the National Security Council of the Republic of Poland. - [Lonnie Henley](./experts/lonnie-henley/index.md): Section: Lonnie Henley - Lonnie Henley is an independent consultant and a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He retired from federal service in 2019 after more than 40 years as an intelligence officer specializing in East Asian security. He served 22 years as a US Army China foreign area officer and military intelligence officer, retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel in 2000 to join the senior civil service, serving as Defense Intelligence Officer for East Asia, Senior Defense Intelligence Analyst for China, and National Intelligence Collection Officer for East Asia among other posts. - [Samuel Bendett](./experts/samuel-bendett/index.md): Section: Samuel Bendett - Samuel Bendett is an Adviser with CNA Strategy, Policy, Plans and Programs Center (SP3), where he is a member of the Russia Studies Program. He is Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Technology and National Security Program in the Center for a New American Security. His work involves research on the Russian defense and technology developments, unmanned and autonomous military systems and Artificial Intelligence, as well as Russian military capabilities and decision-making during crises. - [Jack Burnham](./experts/jack-burnham/index.md): Section: Jack Burnham - Jack Burnham is a research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. His research primarily focuses on China’s military, including emerging technologies, force posture, and strategic culture as well as the role of innovative technology in changing the character of contemporary conflict. Previously, he served as a senior policy research analyst at the China Institute at the University of Alberta (3 posts) - [Beth Asch](./experts/beth-asch/index.md): Section: Beth Asch - Beth Asch is a senior principal economist at RAND. Her areas of study include labor and personnel economics and defense manpower. She has led numerous studies on compensation design in the military and in the federal civil service, on the workforce implications of state and local pension reform, and on military recruiting and personnel supply to the armed forces. Her most recent work includes analysis and redesign of the military pay table, military retirement reform, state and local pension reform, enlistment supply and recruiting resource effectiveness, retention and compensation in the federal civil service, and food insecurity in the armed forces. (1 posts) - [Vali Nasr](./experts/vali-nasr/index.md): Section: Vali Nasr - Vali Nasr is the Majid Khadduri Professor of International Affairs and Middle East Studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He served as the eighth Dean of Johns Hopkins SAIS between 2012 and 2019 and served as Senior Advisor to U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Ambassador Richard Holbrooke between 2009 and 2011. - [Kody McKinley](./experts/kody-mckinley/index.md): Section: Kody McKinley - Kody McKinley is a U.S. Army Special Operations noncommissioned officer with 12 years of experience and holds an M.S. in National Security from Liberty University. He has deployed multiple times across the Middle East, including as a Team Chief in Northeast Syria in 2019, where he earned a Bronze Star. He previously served as an Information Operations Planner at U.S. Cyber Command. The views expressed are his own and do not reflect the official policy or position of the Department of Defense. (1 posts) - [Lyn Brown](./experts/lyn-brown/index.md): Section: Lyn Brown - Jacqueline F. "Lyn" Brown is a partner at Wiley. She served as a senior national security and cyber attorney at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and was the General Counsel to the President's Intelligence Advisory Board in the Executive Office of the President at The White House. She was the FBI’s Privacy Officer (Acting); Deputy General Counsel for the FBI’s General Law Branch (Acting); Section Chief for Counterterrorism Law (Acting); and Chief Counsel to the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center. Earlier in her career, she served as senior counsel to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 and helped draft the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act. She subsequently became the first FBI attorney detailed to help stand up the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). She also served as the Senior Counterterrorism Legal Advisor at the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC). - [Ambassador John Negroponte](./experts/ambassador-john-negroponte/index.md): Section: Ambassador John Negroponte - Ambassador John D. Negroponte is Vice Chairman at McLarty Associates. He has been Ambassador to Honduras, Mexico, the Philippines, the United Nations, and Iraq. In Washington he served twice on the National Security Council staff, first as Director for Vietnam in the Nixon Administration and then as Deputy National Security Advisor under President Reagan. He has also held a cabinet level position as the first Director of National Intelligence under President George W. Bush. His most recent position in government was as Deputy Secretary of State, where he served as the State Department’s Chief Operating Officer. - [Michael Coyne](./experts/michael-coyne/index.md): Section: Michael Coyne - Michael Coyne is a retired career FBI counterintelligence analyst, now a Visiting Fellow with George Mason University’s National Security Institute and an incoming Adjunct Lecturer for the University of Maryland’s Fellows Program.  Coyne was formerly the FBI’s Senior National Intelligence Officer for Counterintelligence, the National Intelligence Officer for Counterintelligence at the National Intelligence Council, and acting National Intelligence Manager for Counterintelligence at the National Counterintelligence and Security Center. (1 posts) - [Sheetal Patel](./experts/sheetal-patel/index.md): Section: Sheetal Patel - Sheetal Patel retired from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) after a distinguished 28 year career. In her last assignment she served as the Assistant Director for CIA’s Transnational and Technology Mission Center. In this role she established and led a new mission center dedicated to leveraging emerging technologies for U.S. strategic advantage. Patel also served as Assistant Director for CIA Counterintelligence, Deputy Chief of Station in South Asia, Chief of Analysis for Counterintelligence, and Executive Assistant to two CIA Directors. She has extensive experience briefing White House officials, Congressional leaders, foreign partners, and industry executives. She also served as a Navy Intelligence Officer in the Reserves from 1999 to 2007. (1 posts) - [Charles Galbreath](./experts/charles-galbreath/index.md): Section: Charles Galbreath - Charles Galbreath is a Senior Resident Fellow for Space Studies at the Mitchell Institute’s Spacepower Advantage Center of Excellence (MI-SPACE). He is a retired United States Space Force Colonel and a Command Space Operator with expertise in Missile Warning, Space Control, Space Launch, and ICBM operations. - [Clayton Swope](./experts/clayton-swope/index.md): Section: Clayton Swope - Clayton Swope is the deputy director of the Aerospace Security Project and a senior fellow in the Defense and Security Department at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Before joining CSIS, Swope led national security and cybersecurity public policy for Amazon’s Project Kuiper. Prior to his time at Amazon, Swope served as a senior adviser on national security, space, foreign affairs, and technology policy issues for a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. He also worked for more than 14 years at the Central Intelligence Agency, serving largely in the Directorate of Science and Technology. - [Ray Donovan](./experts/ray-donovan/index.md): Section: Ray Donovan - Ray Donovan served as chief of operations at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). He was previously a U.S. Border Patrol Agent, a DEA Special Agent in the New York Drug Enforcement Task Force, and served in the DEA Special Operations Division. He is now Founder and CEO of Stack21 Solutions. (1 posts) - [John Erath](./experts/john-erath/index.md): Section: John Erath - John Erath is the Senior Policy Director for the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, overseeing the policy team and guiding work on issues including Iran, Russia, North Korea, China, U.S. domestic nuclear policy and more. This follows 30 years of government service, much of it in arms control and non-proliferation. Most recently, he completed a two-year assignment on the U.S. National Security Council, where he was responsible for European issues. In this capacity, he focused on cooperation with NATO and the European Union, as well as heading White House efforts to improve stability in the Balkans. - [Ankit Panda](./experts/ankit-panda/index.md): Section: Ankit Panda - Ankit Panda is the Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His research interests include nuclear strategy, escalation, missiles and missile defense, space security, and U.S. alliances. He is the author of The New Nuclear Age: At the Precipice of Armageddon (Polity, 2025), Indo-Pacific Missile Arsenals: Avoiding Spirals and Mitigating Risks (Carnegie, 2023), and Kim Jong Un and the Bomb: Survival and Deterrence in North Korea (Hurst/Oxford, 2020). Panda is co-editor of New Approaches to Verifying and Monitoring North Korea’s Nuclear Arsenal (Carnegie, 2021). - [Gilbert W. Merkx](./experts/gilbert-merkx/index.md): Section: Gilbert W. Merkx - Gilbert W. Merkx is a professor emeritus at the University of New Mexico and Duke University, where he also served as Vice Provost for International Affairs. He was the founding chair of the Group of Advisors to the National Security Education Program and served as a consultant to the Defense Intelligence College. (2 posts) - [Dak Hardwick](./experts/dak-hardwick/index.md): Section: Dak Hardwick - Dak Hardwick is Vice President of International Affairs at the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA). He worked previously at the Harris Corporation, as a budget appropriations analyst for the Marine Corps, and at the Office of the Secretary of Defense, where he helped establish the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense after September 11, 2001. He also held various national security positions, including country director for Georgia and the Republic of Moldova and director for peacekeeping operations. - [Dan Blumenthal](./experts/dan-blumenthal/index.md): Section: Dan Blumenthal - Dan Blumenthal is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where he focuses on East Asian security issues and Sino-American relations. Mr. Blumenthal has served in and advised the US government on China issues for more than a decade. Before joining AEI, Mr. Blumenthal served as senior director for China, Taiwan, and Mongolia at the US Department of Defense. He is the author of “The China Nightmare: The Grand Ambitions of a Decaying State.” - [Dr. Joshua Tallis](./experts/joshua-tallis/index.md): Section: Dr. Joshua Tallis - Dr. Joshua Tallis is a Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Naval Analyses. He is a naval analyst with expertise in maritime security as well as Arctic, Euro-Atlantic and NATO naval strategy. In his first field assignment for CNA, Tallis embarked the Harry S. Truman strike group as the only civilian analyst during the U.S. Navy’s first Arctic carrier deployment since the Cold War. Later, he embedded with Naval Forces Europe - Naval Forces Africa in support of the 6th Fleet commander and other U.S. flag officers in leadership positions. - [Sophie Arts](./experts/sophie-arts/index.md): Section: Sophie Arts - Sophie Arts is a Washington, DC-based fellow with GMF Geostrategy North. She leads the team’s research on Nordic and Arctic security and geopolitics, covering North American homeland defense against conventional and hybrid threats, and cooperation with allies and partners. She also focuses on Russian and Chinese activities in the Arctic region. Arts serves as co-chair on the task force for global peace and security for the Think7 (T7), the official G7 group that brings together the world’s leading think tanks and research centers. - [Carlton Haelig](./experts/carlton-haelig/index.md): Section: Carlton Haelig - Carlton Haelig is a fellow with the Defense Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). His research and expertise include national security strategy, force design and employment, and military innovation. - [Radio Treason](./experts/radio-treason/index.md): Section: Radio Treason (1 posts) - [John Parachini](./experts/john-parachini/index.md): Section: John Parachini - John Parachini is a senior international and defense researcher at RAND, former director of the RAND Intelligence Policy Center, and a professor of policy analysis at the RAND School of Public Policy. He recently served in the Office of Chemical and Biological Weapons Affairs at the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Arms Control, Deterrence, and Stability. He has led RAND projects on chemical and biological weapons terrorism, pandemic response, intelligence, nuclear smuggling, conventional arms trade, Iran, North Korean, open-source Intelligence, and emerging technologies. - [Itai Shapira](./experts/itai-shapira/index.md): Section: Itai Shapira - Itai Shapira is a brigadier general in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) Reserves, with more than 25 years of service in the Israeli Defense Intelligence (IDI) at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels. He is a graduate of the Israeli National Defense College and holds a PhD from the University of Leicester. His book about Israeli National Intelligence Culture was published in 2024, and his forthcoming book will discuss Israeli Defense and Intelligence establishments before and after October 2023. (2 posts) - [Brigadier General Kevin Ryan (U.S. Army, Ret.)](./experts/kevin-ryan/index.md): Section: Brigadier General Kevin Ryan (U.S. Army, Ret.) - Brigadier General Kevin Ryan (U.S. Army retired) is a visiting professor at Kyiv School of Economics and its Defense and Security Center. He is a specialist on the Russian military and security establishment and former US Defense Attache in Moscow. (1 posts) - [David Kirichenko](./experts/david-kirichenko/index.md): Section: David Kirichenko - David Kirichenko is an Associate Research Fellow at the Henry Jackson Society. His work on warfare has been featured in the Atlantic Council, Center for European Policy Analysis, and the Modern Warfare Institute, among many others. (4 posts) - [Joey Gagnard](./experts/joey-gagnard/index.md): Section: Joey Gagnard - Chief Warrant Officer 5 (Ret.) Joey Gagnard concluded nearly three decades of distinguished service in the U.S. military, retiring from the special operations community in early 2025. His extensive career included multiple leadership positions during deployments across the Middle East and other key operational areas. Gagnard is a graduate of numerous specialized intelligence and operational courses, as well as military and civilian executive leadership programs. Gagnard also serves as CEO of Atlas Special Projects and Director of Field Operations at Swarmer. (19 posts) - [Laura Galante](./experts/laura-galante/index.md): Section: Laura Galante - Laura Galante is former Director of the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Laura founded Galante Strategies in 2017 to equip governments and corporations to respond effectively to cyber and information threats. Galante was a nonresident senior fellow in the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center, and previously served as the Director of Global Intelligence at cybersecurity company FireEye Inc. (now Trellix). Prior to FireEye, she led a team analyzing state cyber capabilities for the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency. - [Christopher Whyte](./experts/christopher-whyte/index.md): Section: Christopher Whyte - Christopher Whyte is an associate professor (with tenure) of homeland security and emergency preparedness at the L. Douglas Wilder School of Government & Public Affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is author of nearly four dozen peer-reviewed research articles, numerous reports, and five books focused on information warfare, the decision-making dimensions of cyber conflict, and the dynamics of organizational innovation and technology adoption. (1 posts) - [Matt Hefler](./experts/matt-hefler/index.md): Section: Matt Hefler - Dr. Matt Hefler is an Ax:son Johnson Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Statecraft and Strategic Communication at the Stockholm school of Economics, and a member of the Ax:son Johnson Institute for Statecraft and Diplomacy. His research examines the role of intelligence and secret services in international diplomacy. (1 posts) - [William P. Cromwell](./experts/william-p-cromwell/index.md): Section: William P. Cromwell - William P. Crowell is a Partner at Alsop Louie Partners, a San Francisco Venture Capital company. He is also an Independent Consultant specializing in Information Technology, Security and Intelligence Systems. He served as Deputy Director of Operations of NSA from 1991 to 1994 running its core signals intelligence mission. In February 1994 he was appointed by President Clinton as the Deputy Director of NSA and served in that post until his retirement in September 1997. After 9/11 he served on the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age, which published three landmark studies on Homeland Security and information sharing. He also served as Chairman of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Senior Advisory Group from 2007 through 2014 and on the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Advisory Board. - [Dr. Jerry Laurienti](./experts/dr-jerry-laurienti/index.md): Section: Dr. Jerry Laurienti - Dr. Jerry Laurienti is a former Senior Intelligence Service officer and current NGA account manager at Leidos, with nearly three decades of national security experience across the CIA, State Department, and Department of Defense. A former CIA Deputy Associate Director and member of the CIA Leadership Board, he has expertise in intelligence, strategic operations, foreign policy, and geopolitical analysis, with regional focus on Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, the Near East, and global energy. (5 posts) - [David Fitzgerald](./experts/david-fitzgerald/index.md): Section: David Fitzgerald - A 37-yr. CIA veteran, David Fitzgerald retired in 2021 as Chief of Station in a Middle Eastern country, which hosted CIA’s largest field station. As a seven-time Chief of Station, Fitzgerald served in numerous conflict zones to include Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and South Asia. He also held senior HQS positions that included Latin America Chief of Operations and Latin America Deputy Division Chief. He also served as the senior DCIA representative at U.S. Military’s Central Command from 2017-2020, where he participated in several tier 1 operations as the intelligence advisor to the commander. (1 posts) - [Renee Pruneau Novakoff](./experts/renee-pruneau-novakoff/index.md): Section: Renee Pruneau Novakoff - Renee Pruneau Novakoff served for over forty years in the Department of Defense and several Intelligence agencies to include NSA, CIA, ODNI, and DIA. Her last assignment was in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, providing oversight and guidance for the Defense Department’s special programs and sensitive activities to include Human intelligence, Information Operations, counter supply. Previously, Ms. Novakoff served as Joint Staff Director for Collection Management where she was responsible for leading the Defense Collection Enterprise. She also served as Joint Staff Director for Strategy, Plans and Policy. Ms. Novakoff also served as the Principal Deputy National Intelligence Manager for Russia, Europe, and Eurasia at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). Prior to that assignment she was the Acting National Intelligence Manager for Western Hemisphere. (16 posts) - [Major General Ryan Heritage (Ret.)](./experts/major-general-ryan-heritage-ret/index.md): Section: Major General Ryan Heritage (Ret.) - Major General Ryan Heritage (ret.) graduated from George Washington University in Washington, D.C. in 1990 and was commissioned through the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps program. He began his career as an infantry officer serving in multiple assignments within both II and III Marine Expeditionary Force. As a General Officer he served as the Director of Future Operations at U.S. Cyber Command; the Commanding General Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, and Western Recruiting Region; and Commanding General Marine Corps Forces Cyberspace Command, Marine Corps Forces Space Command, and the Marine Corps Information Command. He retired after serving a successful tour as the Director of Operations, U.S. Cyber Command. - [Gloria Glaubman](./experts/gloria-glaubman/index.md): Section: Gloria Glaubman - Gloria Glaubman served as the Senior Cyber Advisor at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo from 2023 to 2025, supporting cybersecurity collaboration across U.S.–Japan diplomatic, defense, and commercial sectors. Her background in national security, cyber policy, and executive-level technical advisory informed her contributions to efforts aimed at strengthening cyber resilience. During her tenure in government, she worked on initiatives involving information-sharing frameworks and the integration of critical and emerging technologies to address evolving threats and promote innovation. (4 posts) - [Vice Admiral Mark Fox, USN (Ret.)](./experts/vice-admiral-mark-fox-usn-ret/index.md): Section: Vice Admiral Mark Fox, USN (Ret.) - Vice Admiral Mark Fox, USN (ret.) is a member of the JINSA Eastern Mediterranean and Abraham Accords policy projects and a 2018 JINSA Generals and Admirals Program participant. He retired in 2016 after a 38-year Navy career. Fox’s last active-duty military assignment was as Deputy Commander, U.S. Central Command in Tampa, Florida. He also served as commander of U.S. Naval Central Command/U.S. 5th Fleet/Combined Maritime Forces from 2010-2012, and commanded Carrier Strike Group 10 aboard USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) in 2008-2009. After retiring from the Navy, he subsequently worked as Corporate Vice President for Customer Affairs at Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII). He retired from HII in 2021. (1 posts) - [Sandrea Hwang](./experts/sandrea-hwang/index.md): Section: Sandrea Hwang - Sandrea Hwang served as the National Intelligence Manager for Counterintelligence and Assistant Director at the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC). She has also served tours at the White House National Security Council (NSC) as Director for Homeland Issues and Counterterrorism. Her previous assignments span the National Counterterrorism Center, Central Intelligence Agency, and Department of Defense. - [Open Source Reports](./report/index.md): Section: Open Source Reports (1971 posts) - [Headlines](./headline/index.md): Section: Headlines (14 posts) - [critical minerals](./critical-minerals/index.md): Section: critical minerals (2 posts) - [ODNI](./odni/index.md): Section: ODNI (1 posts) - [Economy](./economy/index.md): Section: Economy (1 posts) - [Alternative Perspectives](./alternative-perspectives/index.md): Section: Alternative Perspectives (421 posts) - [The Spy and the State](./books/the-spy-and-the-state/index.md): Section: The Spy and the State (1 posts) - [Xen](./experts/xen/index.md): Section: Xen - Xen is a former US Special Operations veteran with experience fighting alongside Ukrainian forces. We have granted his request for anonymity (1 posts) ## API Endpoints - [Search](/search): Site-wide content search - [Main RSS Feed](https://www.thecipherbrief.com/feeds/feed.rss): Latest content in RSS format Last updated: 2026-08-13