Pakistan’s Looming Crisis Could Come at a Cost
If Pakistan’s army and government continue to block regional and national elections, they will increase the scale of Imran Khan’s eventual victory. Fear of Imran […] More
If Pakistan’s army and government continue to block regional and national elections, they will increase the scale of Imran Khan’s eventual victory. Fear of Imran […] More
OPINION — The Chinese Nationalist Party’s (KMT) decisive win of all but five of the twenty-two municipal, city and county elections in Taiwan on November […] More
OPINION – On the eve of the US midterm elections, it is a good time to reflect on cyber threats to our political process, particularly […] More
Hard-line cleric Ebrahim Raisi won Iran’s presidential election on Saturday in a move that is expected to bolster the conservative legacy of the country’s supreme […] More
Peter Pascucci is a commander in the United States Navy and Kurt Sanger is a lieutenant colonel in the United States Marine Corps. They have […] More
OPINION – What’s happening today with COVID-19, from global healthcare systems under extreme stress to the far-reaching economic impact, will be felt for years to […] More
OPINION — President Trump, this past week, has shown that he is just as serious today about undercutting the intelligence community’s January 6, 2017, conclusion […] More
OPINION — President Trump is actively trying to excise the criminal fallout from investigations into Moscow’s 2016 covert support for his presidential election and have […] More
Cipher Brief Expert and former CIA Deputy Director for Counterintelligence, Mark Kelton wrote for The Cipher Brief back in 2017 that, The Man in the […] More
Bottom Line Up Front: The success of Russia’s meddling in 2016 U.S. election ensures that Moscow will employ similar disinformation efforts as 2020 approaches. […] More
OPINION — I want to talk about an African election. It was 2009 in Botswana and the ruling party, in power since independence, was not shy […] More
Russia. We hear and read about it every day in the mainstream media, but the news seems almost exclusively focused on the various investigations of […] More
Cipher Brief Note: Shiite Cleric Muqtada al-Sadr assured Iraqis this past weekend that the next Iraqi government will be ‘inclusive’. Al-Sadr, who once fought U.S. […] More
In the latter part of the 18th century, not too long after an earlier annexation of Crimea by Russia, a Russian governor by the name […] More
Bottom Line: On paper, Iraq’s democratic electoral system promises rare, fair representation in a region where politics is dominated by monarchies and authoritarian regimes. But […] More
The revelation that Donald Trump Jr. was in contact with WikiLeaks throughout the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign is just the latest in a long catalog […] More
As the Kremlin wages an unyielding disinformation campaign against the United States and its European allies, Washington is still reeling from Moscow’s interference in the […] More
There is no “quick and easy fix” for the United States to deal with Russian disinformation and influence operations. Steve Hall, a former senior CIA […] More
The question of alleged Kremlin collusion with the Trump campaign is “still open,” the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Wednesday. The investigation is […] More
Today, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq is holding a historic referendum on Kurdish independence. Kurds are widely expected to overwhelmingly vote Yes, a […] More
Just a few days away from the German federal election, a widely held opinion is that Germany has been spared from interference by Moscow. German […] More
There can be no doubt that over the past ten years, Russia has honed its active measures operations – or covert action in U.S. intelligence […] More
In less than a week, on September 24th, the German public will vote in the country’s general elections – not only to determine who will […] More
Russia has shown it is both willing and capable of using cyber capabilities to interfere in the West’s democratic elections. With the German elections coming […] More