Global Energy Flow Severs After ‘Epic Fury’ Strikes – The Cipher Brief
The Strait of Hormuz is a geographic choke point where global energy security rests on a razor's edge. At its narrowest, the waterway spans just 21 miles, forcing roughly 20 ...
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Congress Faces a Critical FBI Headquarters Decision – The Cipher Brief
OPINION – Congress is weighing a decision with critical National Security implications for generations to come: where to locate the next FBI headquarters? The current headquarters, the Hoover Building, is ...
What the Latest Policy and Tech Shifts Mean for National Security – The Cipher Brief
Welcome to The Iron Triangle, the Cipher Brief column serving Procurement Officers tasked with buying the future, Investors funding the next generation of defense technology, and the Policy Wonks analyzing ...
Revisionist History – Aliens, Secrets and Conspiracies – The Cipher Brief
OPINION – Over a decade ago, I was a public official and was at one of our commission meetings on the coast of California. A fellow commissioner and I decided ...
Evelyn Farkas on Alliances, Ukraine, and China’s Growing Challenge – The Cipher Brief
EXPERT Q&A — Evelyn Farkas has spent decades working at the center of U.S. national security and transatlantic defense policy. A former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine, ...
The Old Guard’s Continued Grip on Power – The Cipher Brief
Rather than triggering immediate elections as Venezuelan law requires, the Supreme Court declared Maduro’s capture a temporary absence, allowing Rodríguez to govern indefinitely without a popular mandate.“The regime used a ...
Pentagon Shifts Strategy on Drone Threats – The Cipher Brief
OPINION — “This memorandum consolidates approximately ten separate outdated memoranda that were inadequate to address the current, complex unmanned aircraft system (UAS) threat environment. The new guidance affects a culture ...
Building U.S. Drone Dominance Brick by Brick – The Cipher Brief
OPINION — One of the things I loved about LEGO as a child was the ability to mix and match an endless amount of parts to create unique builds. Children ...
Iran’s Protests Expose Deeper Fragility as Leaders Struggle to Contain Crisis – The Cipher Brief
President Masoud Pezeshkian, traveling in southwestern and eastern Iran, has acknowledged mounting public dissatisfaction and urged officials to address the population’s concerns, calling mismanagement - not foreign adversaries - the ...
Why His War of Attrition will Sink Russia – The Cipher Brief
OPINION — On February 14, 2022, with Russia poised to invade Ukraine, I questioned whether Vladimir Putin’s reign to that point had revealed him to be a strategic master or ...