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Checkmate, Comrade: Espionage, Surveillance, and the Quiet Rebellion over the Chess Board

BOOK REVIEW: Spy’s Mate, A NovelBy Brad Buchanan / Thinkers PublishingReviewed by: Jean-Thomas NicoleThe Reviewer — Jean-Thomas Nicole is a Policy [...] More

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Russia's Nuclear Rhetoric: Cold War Redux

Russia's Nuclear Rhetoric: Cold War Redux

EXPERT INTERVIEW — Russia has accompanied its war against Ukraine with an escalation of nuclear rhetoric reminiscent of that used during the Cold [...] More

A Cold War Spy Dossier Revealed - With Lessons for Today

OPINION — Earlier this month, a tranche of British Security Service (MI5) records was declassified on the most notorious traitors in modern British [...] More

Reagan Did Win the Cold War

OPINION — As we debate whether we’re in a new cold war, a recent movie and book about the legacy of President Ronald Reagan have inspired Americans [...] More

Information is the Most Important Tool in the new War for Truth

OPINION — The first step to winning a war is recognizing you’re in one. The world’s democracies are finally waking up to the waves of malign [...] More

As America's Nuclear Arsenal Upgrades, Usual Testing is Scrapped

OPINION — “U.S. [nuclear] warheads were designed and manufactured until the late 1980s and early 1990s. Since then, we have not designed any new [...] More

We May Already be in a Cold War with China

OPINION — Although bilateral trade with China in 2022 increased to a record $690.6 billion, bilateral relations deteriorated to their lowest level [...] More

Did The Cold War Ever Really End?

Did The Cold War Ever Really End?

Sonya Seunghye Lim, Former Chief of Station, CIA[rebelmouse-image 60322694 expand=1 dam=1 alt="Sonya Lim" site_id=26883708 is_animated_gif="false" [...] More

How to Compete with China without Going to War

Well before COVID-19 there was a “hardening of expert and public opinion in America on the seriousness of the Chinese threat,” according to Cipher [...] More

Heading Off a Cold War with China

Ambassador Joseph DeTrani is former Special envoy for Six Party Talks with North Korea and the U.S. Representative to the Korea Energy Development [...] More

A Farewell to Arms Control

Bottom Line Up FrontJust last week, the United States pulled out of the landmark 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, citing years of [...] More

2019: New Beginnings & Old Challenges

Bottom Line Up FrontAs 2019 begins, the U.S. and its allies will continue to deal with crises that started years ago and have now matured into [...] More

The Urgency of Resetting Relations With China

The Urgency of Resetting Relations With China

Bottom Line Up Front: The Trump Administration is confronting China on issues that have been developing for years and have percolated to the top of a [...] More