Elaine Shannon, contributing editor at The Cipher Brief, is a former correspondent for Time and Newsweek. Her latest book is ...

Vice Admiral Frank Whitworth on why - for all the advances of AI-driven systems and other new technologies - people are still ...

Former CIA analyst Steven Ward on whether Iran's recent failures to counter Israeli attacks will spark reform in the country's intelligence services.

More than two and a half years after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s economy shows surprising resilience.

If the numbers are what they are, then we need to man SOF (Special Operations Forces) to the numbers we can man to [...] More ...

How Xi’s Marxist Nationalism is Shaping China and the World By Kevin Rudd / Oxford University Press Reviewed by: Jean-Thomas Nicole The [...] More ...

EXCLUSIVE — The acting Director of the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) Brett Holmgren told The Cipher Brief’s 2024 Threat Conference Sunday that ...

Author, "Asia's New Battlefield: U.S., China and the Struggle for the Western Pacific" Richard Javad Heydarian is a political science professor at De La Salle University, Philippines, and the author ...

Michael Hsieh is a CFR-Hitachi Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also a nonresident affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University.

William Heidlage is a Research Director at BowerGroupAsia, where he analyzes the impact of politics in Northeast Asia on the commercial environment.

China is courting Thailand. Former Deputy Director of CIA for Digital Innovation Jennifer Ewbank weighs in on why the relationship matters.

Russia, Iran, China and North Korea — the so-called Axis of Authoritarians — are aligning to challenge the West and change the world order.