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Listening to a Top Army Officer - and the Secretary of Defense

OPINION - “The Army is moving quickly to adapt, field new capabilities, and restructure its formations to outpace our adversaries. ‘Transforming in [...] More

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A Picture of Putin's Nuclear Option

OPINION — Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has repeatedly threatened the use of his nuclear weapons and now has placed his nuclear deterrence [...] More

Putin Moves on Ukraine. How Will the World Respond?

OPINION — Is this the future of major power conflicts?Remember President Joe Biden’s January 19, 2022, press conference response to a question about [...] More

The Wrong Answer on Ukraine

OPINION — Russian President Vladimir Putin has been the center of world attention since last November, when he began a buildup of Russian forces on [...] More

A New Path to Cyber Conflict with Russia

OPINION — Last Thursday, in a little-noticed U.S. Treasury Department press release, the Biden administration accused Russia of currently [...] More

Don't Ignore All Sides of Russian Messaging

OPINION — Let’s look at Russian President Vladimir Putin’s situation at home, as we try to determine what’s behind his threatening stance toward [...] More

Nuclear Weapons and the 'Doublethink' Conundrum

OPINION — As we await the Biden 2022 Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) and the results of U.S.-Russian security talks that opened yesterday in Geneva, [...] More

The Connection Between Words and Action in National Security

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

The Nine Lives of U.S. Defense Programs

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

What 20 Years of Reconstruction Taught Us 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

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

Cyber is the New Weapons System of the Future

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

The Military's Long History of Dealing with Racism

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