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

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DEEP DIVE — Throughout Election Day and a long election night, one major story had nothing to do with the results at the ...

It was, as Axios reporter Zachary Basu put it, “the most astonishing, gravity-defying comeback in the history of American ...

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

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Former Acting CIA Director John McLaughlin assesses how a Harris and Trump administration may take on today's global security challenges.

OPINION – “I think the thing that’ll be really important is how you make them [new unmanned aircraft], because this is another thing the [Pentagon] acquisition system doesn’t do. It thinks about the ...

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 ...

The Reviewer — Cipher Brief Expert Glenn S. Gerstell is a Principal with the Cyber Initiatives Group and Senior Adviser at the Center for Strategic & International Studies. He served as General ...

Daniel Fried played a key role designing and implementing American policy in Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union. He served as Special Assistant and NSC Senior Director for Presidents Clinton ...