Welcome to The Iron Triangle, the Cipher Brief column serving Procurement Officers tasked with buying the future, Investors funding the next [...]
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In Moscow this year, people stopped answering “How are you?” with “Fine.” They started saying, “I’m full tank.”K. first heard it from a friend, right [...]
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In Moscow this year, people stopped answering “How are you?” with “Fine.” They started saying, “I’m full tank.”K. first heard it from a friend, right [...]
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“What does Ukraine really need? How do we make sure they're delivering what they actually need? And you know, right now those are air defense [...]
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“What does Ukraine really need? How do we make sure they're delivering what they actually need? And you know, right now those are air defense [...]
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A Post-Cold War Assumption That No Longer HoldsFor three decades, the Alliance operated under a dangerous assumption: that the electromagnetic [...]
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A Post-Cold War Assumption That No Longer HoldsFor three decades, the Alliance operated under a dangerous assumption: that the electromagnetic [...]
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“To me, the biggest way that we're doing this is introducing technology into the [U.S. Army] formations that is not fully baked. And so all of us who [...]
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The South Korean Buddhist monk, the Venerable Pomnyun Sunimin, in his book “What is Happiness?” introduces us to his philosophy of life: “Everyone [...]
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Tell the Russian people about the carnage in Russia’s war with Ukraine. Tell them about the Russian lives lost and the crushing financial cost of a [...]
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We are good at winning wars and generally bad at what comes after. Far from a partisan observation; this is a pattern with receipts. We removed [...]
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In the months before Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. Intelligence Community did something remarkable. It got the call right—and [...]
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This Memorial Day, The Cipher Brief is remembering the Americans who answered the call after Russia launched its unprovoked, deadly invasion of [...]
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OPINION -- I recently had the opportunity to take part in a panel discussion on geopolitical issues at the Kyiv Security Forum in Kyiv. One of the [...]
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Снявший голову, по волосам не плачут(When your head is cut off, you don’t cry about your hair)- Old Russian ProverbOPINION – Russia is readying for [...]
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For two decades, U.S. drones hunting terrorists across the mountains of South Asia were the symbol of American military power: precise, lethal, and [...]
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When Iranian Shahed drones began tearing through the Gulf in the opening hours of Operation Epic Fury on February 28, killing American service [...]
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Drones in Ukraine and in the War with Iran have made the surface of the earth a contested space. The U.S. has discovered that 1) air superiority and [...]
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When ransomware groups hit Romania’s national water agency, its largest coal-fired power producer and oil pipeline operator all in recent months, it [...]
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