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A Former CIA Leader on Debates - and What Matters

OPINION — As President Biden and former President Trump prepare to face off in the first of their 2024 presidential debates, The Cipher Brief polled [...] More

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What Success Looks Like for Now in Ukraine

OPINION — Will past weeks of multi-national propaganda focused on military activity along the Ukraine/Russia border lead to a major conflict? Or is [...] More

The Talk Between Russia and the U.S.

OPINION — Military exercises and psychological warfare operations have been underway for months along the tense Russia-Ukraine and Poland-Belarus [...] More

Is the US Creating Opportunity for China in Afghanistan?

Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist at The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The [...] More
After Geneva: US - Russia Strategy Moving Forward

After Geneva: US - Russia Strategy Moving Forward

Robert Dannenberg, Fmr. Sr. CIA Officer, Former Chief of Security, Goldman Sachs[rebelmouse-image 60322535 expand=1 dam=1 alt="Robert Dannenberg bw" [...] More

Where Biden Stands on Nuclear Weapons

Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist for The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at [...] More

When it comes to Cyberattacks, Can we really just talk it out?

Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist for The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on [...] More

The U.S. Position on South Korean Missiles Just Got Interesting

Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist for The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on [...] More
How the Middle East Conflict Leads Back to US National Security

How the Middle East Conflict Leads Back to US National Security

In the Biden Administration’s highest-level face-to-face visit, Secretary of State Antony Blinken is traveling to the Middle East to seize momentum [...] More
Afghanistan: How Six Good Reasons Can Still Lead to a Bad Decision

Afghanistan: How Six Good Reasons Can Still Lead to a Bad Decision

Cipher Brief Expert Tim Willasey-Wilsey served for over 27 years in the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office where his focus was on South Asia and [...] More

On Nuclear: Iran and North Korea are a Package Deal

Cipher Brief Expert John E. McLaughlin served as Acting Director of Central Intelligence from July to September 2004 and as Deputy Director of [...] More

Afghanistan's Great Gap

OPINION — The Biden administration is reviewing not just the February 2020, Trump administration agreement with the Taliban that calls for all U.S. [...] More

The US' Dangerous Dilemma in Afghanistan

Cipher Brief Expert Tim Willasey-Wilsey is a visiting Professor of War Studies at King’s College, London and a former senior British diplomat. The [...] More