Hollie McKay is a Cipher Brief contributing writer, war crimes investigator, and author of "Only Cry for the Living: Memos ...

In recent years, the national conversation about disinformation has often focused on bot networks, foreign operatives, and algorithmic manipulation at industrial scale. Those concerns are valid, and I ...

Sean Wiswesser is a former senior operations officer with the CIA, having served multiple overseas tours and has held senior ...

The recently leaked 28-point peace plan to end the war in Ukraine is nothing short of an appeasement that satisfies the maximalist demands of the aggressor in the conflict, Russian President Vladimir ...

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (C-R) meets with US President Donald Trump during a bilateral meeting in Riyadh on May ...

Matt Berrett is Director of Analytics at Space Dynamics Lab and Co-Founder of Utah State University’s Center for Anticipatory ...

After decades of military rule in Myanmar, free and fair general elections were permitted in 2015 and the National League for Democracy and its leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, won by a landslide. In ...

Not long ago, I was talking to an old friend and China analyst about the need for Intelligence Community (IC) analysts to spend significantly more time looking at themselves and their own agencies, ...

Sean Wiswesser is a former senior operations officer with the CIA, having served multiple overseas tours and has held senior ...

While Washington is focused on Iran’s accelerating uranium-enrichment program and increasingly aggressive regional posture, ...

Access all of The Cipher Brief’s national security-focused expert insight by becoming a Cipher Brief Subscriber+ Member.

Matt Berrett is Director of Analytics at Space Dynamics Lab and Co-Founder of Utah State University’s Center for Anticipatory Intelligence. His 32-year IC career included serving as the DNI’s Director ...