From Ukraine to Russia, the Middle East to China – how the Trump-Vance administration may handle global challenges ...

Tim Willasey-Wilsey served for over 27 years in the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office and is now Visiting Professor of War Studies at King’s College, London. His first overseas posting was in ...

Prior to his appointment as a senior fellow at the Belfer Center, Mr. Rolf Mowatt-Larssen served over three years as the Director of Intelligence and Counterintelligence at the U.S. Department of ...

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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The author argues that the intelligence community must fix cognitive shortcomings of traditional analysis for today's chaotic world?

Zelensky rebuffs Trump’s proposal for a rapid peace deal in the Ukraine war ...

Norman Roule is a geopolitical and energy consultant who served for 34 years in the Central Intelligence Agency, managing numerous programs relating to Iran and the Middle East. As NIM-I at ODNI, he ...

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 ...

Former Director of Strategic Operational Planning, National Counterterrorism Center. Mike LeFever recently retired from the United States Navy after serving for over 38 years, finishing his military ...

Mary Beth Long served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs — the first woman confirmed by the Senate as assistant secretary of defense – and is the first woman to chair ...

David Daoud is a research analyst on Hezbollah and Lebanon. He previously worked as an advisor on the Middle East on Capitol Hill. David was also a research associate on terrorist groups at the ...