Hollie McKay is a writer, war crimes investigator, and the author of “Only Cry for the Living: Memos from Inside the ISIS ...

President-elect Donald Trump faces mounting threat from the Axis of Authoritarian states, which threaten the international world order.

EXPERT INTERVIEW — In the week since Donald Trump’s election victory, the world has been speculating and preparing – in some ...

Michael Sulick is the former director of CIA’s National Clandestine Service and is currently a consultant on counterintelligence and global risk assessment. Sulick also served as Chief of ...

Dr. Michael Vickers served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence from 2011 to 2015, the Chief Executive Officer of the Defense Intelligence Enterprise, an $80 billion, 180,000-person, ...

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 ...

That was Dr. Will Roper, a forward-thinking, former top Defense Department (DoD) official, speaking November 4 at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) on The Past, Present, and ...

Brian Bonner joined The Cipher Brief in March 2024. He led the Kyiv Post, Ukraine's English-language newspaper, from ...

VADM Kevin Donegan (Ret.) warns that the U.S. has a window of time to force real change in The Middle East, exclusively in The Cipher Brief ...

DEEP DIVE – As Donald Trump prepares to return to the White House, the U.S. faces an unusually broad set of global security challenges: wars in Europe and the Middle East, neither of which look likely ...

Former Asst. Director of CIA for South and Central Asia Dave Pitts weighs in on the danger of strategic surprise amid transition.