Trump’s Pre-Election Search for a National Security Win
OPINION — President Trump and his team are trying to come up with at least one last minute foreign policy success before Election Day, just […] More
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The Danger of Political Spin
OPINION — Last week, President Trump attempted to use the mistaken discarding of nine military ballots two weeks ago by a just-hired contractor at Pennsylvania’s […] More
Vladimir Putin’s Tragic Isolation
Dr. Kenneth Dekleva served as a Regional Medical Officer/Psychiatrist (including 5 years at the U.S. Embassy Moscow, Russian Federation) with the U.S. Dept. of State […] More
The Biggest Threat to US Elections
OPINION — President Trump and elements of his administration are publicly assessing that China poses a greater national security threat to the US election than […] More
Are We Experiencing a Secondary Epidemic?
OPINION — The scientific, medical, public health and morbidity/mortality reporting as well as the media writ large, are all documenting the profound negative impact of […] More
Congress Needs to Keep Up with AI
OPINION –The Defense Department’s unclassified investment in Artificial Intelligence (AI) has grown from $600 million five years ago, to a proposed $2.5 billion for fiscal […] More
Mission First: Acquisition Reform
Brett Davis is a Partner in New North Ventures — a Venture Capital firm focused on technological innovation. Davis retired as a Senior Executive in […] More
UAE-Israel deal serves bilateral relations, not larger issues
Cipher Brief Expert Emile Nakhleh is a retired CIA Senior Intelligence Service Officer and founding director of the CIA’s Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program Office. Nakhleh […] More
Opinion: The U.S. Presidential Election and Doing our Part
With just a few months left until the U.S. presidential election, there are a long list of things that threaten the vote, from election meddling […] More
How Reorienting Middle East Policy can work in a New Era
Cipher Brief Expert Emile Nakhleh is a retired CIA Senior Intelligence Service Officer and founding director of the CIA’s Political Islam Strategic Analysis Program Office. […] More
A National Crisis: The Imperative for Improving Civic Education
Ted McConnell is Senior Policy Advisor for CivXNow Coalition, and Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker, is former General Counsel at CIA and NSA and is a member of […] More
Pouring Gas on a Fire
OPINION — The threatened Trump administration introduction of uninvited federal law enforcement officers into cities across the United States may already be underway, but at […] More
What the 2030 Kill Chain Looks Like
OPINION — On July 1, one month before his scheduled retirement, Air Force Chief of Staff General David L. Goldfein gave a vivid description of […] More
What Follows a ‘Sayonara’ Foreign Policy
Cipher Brief Expert and former Acting CIA Director John McLaughlin is a distinguished practitioner in residence at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International […] More
The Battle over Bounties and the Bottom Line
OPINION — On 27 June, The New York Times reported Russia was offering bounties to the Taliban to kill American soldiers. The paper cited anonymous […] More
A New Call to Arms for Drone Technology
OPINION — The Senate Armed Services Committee has recognized the vulnerabilities of today’s unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and called on the Defense Department “to develop […] More
The Unconventional Case for Body Cameras
James Van de Velde, Ph.D., is an Adjunct Faculty Member at Johns Hopkins University. He can be reached at [email protected] OPINION — High technology has […] More
Testing Trump’s Team
OPINION — US Government officials, civilian and military, alike may be facing unusual tests in the next four months: Does their loyalty rest with the […] More