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 ...

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

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

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 ...

CISA Director Jen Easterly said China’s cyberattacks seek to cause ‘societal panic’ in the event of a US-China war ...

Trump says he is waiting for a meeting with Putin to end the war in Ukraine ...

Rear Admiral Mike Studeman sees a multi-pronged 'silent invasion' from China -- and offers thoughts on what the US should do ...

In this latest installment of our “Memos to 47” series, Douglas Lute, a former U.S. Ambassador to NATO, looks at the Ukraine war – in particular, the steady but (in his view) too-slow pace of American ...

Beth Sanner Beth Sanner View Articles Former Deputy Director for National Intelligence, ODNI Beth Sanner served in the U.S. Intelligence Community for 35 years holding senior roles at ODNI and CIA.

AI holds huge promise for medicine. It could also be used to make a bioweapon. Experts warn there are not enough guards ...