It was a shock that few saw coming – and which brought memories of South Korea’s days as a military dictatorship, a ...

With Syrian rebels having taken control of Aleppo, there are questions about what is next for Syria and the many actors with stakes there.

After Donald Trump’s victory in the November 5 election, The Cipher Brief invited experts from our network to offer advice ...

As President-elect Trump vows to disrupt the intelligence community, two former leaders of the IC debate the value of the ...

Cipher Brief Expert and former Deputy Director of CIA for Digital Innovation Jennifer Ewbank makes the serious case for procurement reform ...

A PERSONAL MESSAGE / OPINION — In this space that’s normally reserved for world-class reporting and analysis of global security issues, we thought we’d do something different this Thanksgiving weekend ...

Frank Montoya Jr. is a retired FBI special agent and senior executive with extensive experience in counterintelligence matters. In addition to running FBI field offices in Honolulu and Seattle in the ...

MEMO TO THE PRESIDENT — After Donald Trump’s victory in the November 5 election, The Cipher Brief invited experts from our network to offer advice for [...] More ...

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 ...

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 ...