Ambassador Joseph DeTrani served as the U.S. Representative to the Korea Energy Development Organization (KEDO), as well as former CIA director of East Asia Operations. He also served as Associate ...

Kelly Bissell joined Microsoft as Corporate Vice President in 2022. Prior to this, he led Accenture’s Global Security business. With more than 25 years of security industry experience, Bissell ...

Admiral Stavridis (Ret.) was the 16th Supreme Allied Commander at NATO and 12th Dean of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, where he earned a PhD in international affairs. He ...

Cipher Brief Senior National Security Columnist Walter Pincus examines the U.S. mission in Space and how it's working out.

SPECIAL REPORT – In the last days of 2024, The Cipher Brief turned to our network of experts – who spend much of their time ...

Why Russia Invaded Ukraine by Lucian Kim, which explores the mind of Putin and his perspective on Ukraine.

A review of a year filled with headlines that few in the national security and intelligence space could have imagined, one ...

Ambassador Douglas E. Lute is Chair of the International and Defense Practices, BGR Group; CEO of Cambridge Global Advisors, LLC; and Distinguished Chair of Social Sciences, U.S. Military Academy, ...

Ralph Goff is a 35-year veteran of the CIA where he was a 6-time Chief of Station with extensive service in Europe, the Middle East, and Central and South Asia including several war zones. He served ...

An end-of-year roundup of recommendations, many from Cipher Brief experts, from our "Under Cover" Book Review series.