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The Central Role of Women in the CIA

BOOK REVIEW: AGENTS OF CHANGE: The Women Who Transformed the CIABy Christina Hillsberg / Citadel June 24. 2025Reviewed by: Jennifer EwbankThe [...] More

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Don't Bet on China to Fill the Post-Pandemic Leadership Void

Cipher Brief Expert John McLaughlin is a distinguished practitioner in residence at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International [...] More

All Eyes On Iran

OPINION — As 2019 drew to a close, while foreign adversary leaders such as President Putin, President Xi, and Chairman Kim often attracted the [...] More

U.S. Leadership is Needed to Stop Terrorism

The nation and the world welcomed President Donald Trump’s Oct. 27 announcement that ISIS leader Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed by the U.S. military at [...] More

The U.S. Has Abandoned Leadership of the Internet

A hundred years from now historians will write that one of America’s greatest contributions to the world was the Internet. Though other countries and [...] More

Author Interview: Stan McChrystal on Leaders: Myth and Reality

Leaders: Myth and Reality, was a bestseller, even before it hit the bookstores. According to Amazon, the book being released today by General Stanley [...] More

State Secrets Podcast: General Stanley McChrystal (Ret.) on Leadership and Running for Office

State Secrets Podcast: General Stanley McChrystal (Ret.) on Leadership and Running for Office

Cipher Brief CEO & Publisher Suzanne Kelly sat down with General Stanley McChrystal (Ret.) just as his new book, Leaders: Myth and Reality is [...] More

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Trump's Mind: More Than the Sum of His Tweets

Donald Trump’s ascendency to the presidency has led to a flurry of interest in not only his mental health, but more generally, in the mental health [...] More