Jean-Thomas Nicole, Policy Advisor with Public Safety Canada, reviews On Freedom by Timothy Snyder in The Cipher Brief.

Whose analysis do we trust? John Sipher says, be careful what to believe after failed predictions at the start of the Ukraine war.

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Officials see a range of election interference ploys - some aimed at Trump, some at Harris, and most just looking to disrupt ...

Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist for The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on topics that ranged ...

Ali Soufan is a former FBI Supervisory Special Agent who investigated and supervised highly sensitive and complex international terrorism cases, including the East Africa Embassy Bombings, the attack ...

Michael Sulmeyer is the Belfer Center’s Cyber Security Project Director at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is also a Contributing Editor for Lawfare. Before Harvard, he served as the Director for Plans ...

As Russian forces make slow but steady gains in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region – recently seizing Vulhedar, a coal mining ...

Gen. Breedlove retired as the Commander, Supreme Allied Command, Europe, SHAPE, Belgium and Headquarters, U.S. European Command, Stuttgart, Germany. He also served as Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S.

Frank Archibald retired from the CIA in 2015 as the Director of the National Clandestine Service an assignment in which he led all of CIA’s operations worldwide. His 31 years of CIA service included ...

Joanne retired from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) after a distinguished career as a Senior Executive in 2006. From 2001 until 2006, she served as Deputy Director of the National ...

James Lewis is a Senior Vice President and Program Director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Before joining CSIS, he worked at the Departments of State and Commerce. He ...