Ernestine Fu Mak is the Founder of Brave Capital, where she has invested in startups developing critical technologies for ...

Today, after a post-9/11 era defined by global counterterrorism and asymmetric warfare, the U.S. is preparing for potential near-peer conflicts amid a new era of great power competition, complicated ...

Former Senior CIA Officer Shares Insights on China's Ambitions ...

To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing…” — Winston S. ChurchillOPINION -- Winston ...

Harry Coker Jr. is the Secretary of the Maryland Department of Commerce. He served as national cyber director from 2023 to ...

Meet The Cipher Brief’s experts - our expanding network of national security experts and contributors includes top thinkers from the intelligence, military, academic and business sectors.

More countries aspire to be nuclear-weapons states, and we should prepare for this eventuality. That’s why the Golden Dome missile defense initiative is timely and needed.The war in Ukraine is a stark ...

Dr. Michael Vickers served as Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence from 2011 to 2015 and as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations, Low Intensity Conflict, and Interdependent ...

Taiwan braces for its largest military exercise ever, with 22,000 reservists mobilized amid escalating tensions with Beijing.

Eric Trager is the Esther K. Wagner Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, where his research focuses on Egyptian politics and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Dr. Trager has served ...

Cipher Brief Expert Daniel Hoffman is a former senior officer with the Central Intelligence Agency, where he served as a three-time station chief and a senior executive Clandestine Services officer.

Laura E. Thomas is a former CIA case officer and chief of base who led sensitive CIA programs at CIA Headquarters and abroad in multiple, international assignments. She served over 15 years in various ...