James “Jim” Lawler served for 25 years as a CIA operations officer in various international posts and as Chief of the ...

Winning tomorrow’s conflicts means countering the persistent networks, cognitive warfare, and gray-zone strategies already ...

John O’Neil, Ph.D. has extensive service in numerous leadership roles in academia and at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where his work lay at the intersection of critical science and technology ...

Trump says ⁠interim accord with Iran ‘over’ as both sides exchange fresh strikes across Gulf, U.S. blocks oil sales.

Did you authorize a $2,400 transfer? Reply NO to stop it.” You reply, and seconds later a calm “fraud agent” calls, knows your name and the last four digits of your card, and walks you through ...

Colombia stands at a crossroads because of the narrow victory of right‑wing outsider Abelardo de la Espriella over leftist Senator Iván Cepeda. On August 7, 2026, Colombia will close the country’s ...

We [the Joint Chiefs of Staff] often times in the national security decision-making process or White House meetings -- outside of the Pentagon process -- will go back and forth between military issues ...

AI, Cybersecurity and the Fight for our FutureBy Dr. Eric Cole / Amplify Publishing,Reviewed by: Glenn S. GerstellThe Reviewer: Cipher Brief Expert Glenn S. Gerstell is a Principal with the Cyber ...

We are good at winning wars and generally bad at what comes after. Far from a partisan observation; this is a pattern with receipts. We removed Saddam Hussein in three weeks and then spent eight years ...

I’m deeply concerned that the Presidential proposal for $350 billion mandatory funding [to be carried in a reconciliation bill and not an appropriations bill] for defense will have no Appropriations ...

Most enterprise AI agents today are still being deployed in controlled environments. They sit inside a platform, perform a defined task and operate under the identity and access controls of that ...

There are 65 active state-based conflicts in the world today, according to the Uppsala Conflict Data Program. That is not 65 separate crises. It is 65 living laboratories.The contest that matters is ...