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

As battlefield setbacks mount, not even the weather is cooperating with Ukraine and a new U.S. president, there's a lot at ...

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 ...

Moldova is a deeply polarized nation. A large number of educated Moldovan citizens are working abroad because of a lack of jobs at home. That diaspora, along with people in the capital, Chisinau, ...

As battlefield setbacks mount, not even the weather is cooperating with Ukraine, which is forecast to have a ...

Daniel Fried played a key role designing and implementing American policy in Europe after the fall of the Soviet Union. He ...

Elections in Bulgaria, Georgia and Moldova have all served as testing grounds for a Russia v. West contest for influence.

AM EDT Monday, November 4The Cipher Brief curates open source information from around the world that impacts national security. [...] More ...

Ambassador DeTrani served as the U.S. Representative to the Korea Energy Development Organization (KEDO), as well as former CIA director of East Asia Operations. He also served as Associate Director ...

General Jack Keane (Ret.), a four-star general, retired after 37 years of military service culminating in his appointment as acting Chief of Staff and Vice Chief of Staff of the US Army. General Keane ...

Admiral Winnefeld served for 37 years in the United States Navy. He retired in 2015 after serving four years as the ninth Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. As a flag officer, he commanded ...

Gordon G. Chang is the author of The Coming Collapse of China and Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World. Chang lived and worked in China and Hong Kong for almost two decades, most recently ...