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

Russia, Ukraine, defense spending, and the Middle East dominate an alliance searching for unity at one of its most consequential summits in decades.

The next Director of National Intelligence will inherit an intelligence enterprise confronting AI-driven disruption, strategic competition, and mounting resource pressures. Shelby Pierson and Renee Novakoff examine three critical decisions that will shape the future of the Intelligence Community.

Five months after Secretary Hegseth's sweeping innovation overhaul, the Pentagon's new acquisition architecture is beginning to take shape—but key questions about execution, speed, and strategic impact remain.

Rather than seeking decisive battlefield victory, U.S. adversaries are using long-term pressure campaigns to erode American power, autonomy, and resolve.

This Memorial Day, The Cipher Brief is focusing on Americans who answered an unsettling call after Russia launched its unprovoked, deadly attack on Ukraine in February of 2022. What follows is a deeply personal account of the war through the eyes of two Americans who have lived it. This piece was wr

The Beijing summit offered a display of diplomatic stability, but beneath the choreography, China pressed its claim to equal status and kept the pressure on Taiwan.

Despite strikes on Iranian command centers, Tehran’s cyber operators continue targeting U.S. healthcare, energy, water, and government systems through dispersed networks and proxy groups.

From Colombia to Venezuela, the balance of power in Latin America is changing fast.

Experts say a whole new approach is needed to deal with Pyongyang’s nuclear arsenal

The deaths of two CIA officers highlight a growing U.S. intelligence footprint in cartel territory - and the political backlash it’s triggering in Mexico City.

Just a few weeks ago, Pakistan, the host for fragile ceasefire talks aiming to end the war between the U.S. and Iran, was at war with Afghanistan in what has been described as the worst conflict between the two countries in years.

After years of observing from afar, the U.S. is now confronting the economic and operational realities of drone warfare in real time.