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The Cipher Brief

The Kremlin Files: Russian Double Agents and Operational Games

The Kremlin Files: Russian Double Agents and Opera...

7 months ago 167

EU Takes Aim at Tehran: IRGC Terror Listing Opens New Front in Europe’s Iran Policy

EU Takes Aim at Tehran: IRGC Terror Listing Opens ...

7 months ago 184

Should Western Tech Giants Partner With Pro-Hamas Network Al Jazeera?

Should Western Tech Giants Partner With Pro-Hamas ...

7 months ago 188

Inside the $35 Billion Plan to Track Hypersonic Missiles from Space

Inside the $35 Billion Plan to Track Hypersonic Mi...

7 months ago 197

The U.S.-China Economic Cold War Is No Longer Silent

The U.S.-China Economic Cold War Is No Longer Sile...

7 months ago 168

Greenland’s Worth a Fight and Russia’s Trying to Start One

Greenland’s Worth a Fight and Russia’s Trying to S...

7 months ago 163

Export Controls Backfire: The China Innovation Paradox

Export Controls Backfire: The China Innovation Par...

7 months ago 183

The Rise of China's Strategic Soft Power and its Global Impact

The Rise of China's Strategic Soft Power and its G...

7 months ago 206

America’s Intelligence Satellites are Proliferating: Their Protection is Not, With Exceptions

America’s Intelligence Satellites are Proliferatin...

7 months ago 198

The 2026 National Defense Strategy: No Surprises but Plenty of Mandate

The 2026 National Defense Strategy: No Surprises b...

7 months ago 209

China’s Stunning Military Purge – and What It Means For Taiwan

China’s Stunning Military Purge – and What It Mean...

7 months ago 195

An Update on Venezuela, Post Maduro Apprehension

An Update on Venezuela, Post Maduro Apprehension

7 months ago 219

Inside Trump’s New ‘Board of Peace’

Inside Trump’s New ‘Board of Peace’

7 months ago 176

Russia’s War Economy Lifeline: Inside the Sanctions Evasion Network

Russia’s War Economy Lifeline: Inside the Sanction...

7 months ago 254

They're Coming for Our Kids: How Extremists Target Children Online

They're Coming for Our Kids: How Extremists Target...

7 months ago 187

The Next FATF Test: Can the West Demand Results from Pakistan?

The Next FATF Test: Can the West Demand Results fr...

7 months ago 195

Russia is Targeting Civilians in Ukraine

Russia is Targeting Civilians in Ukraine

7 months ago 159

Loosening the Gordian Knot of Global Terrorism: Why Legitimacy Must Anchor a Counterterrorism Strategy

Loosening the Gordian Knot of Global Terrorism: Wh...

7 months ago 202

Iran at the Breaking Point: How Afghanistan and Iraq Still Inform U.S. Strategy

Iran at the Breaking Point: How Afghanistan and Ir...

7 months ago 166

The Kremlin Files: Russia’s Way to the Gray Zone

The Kremlin Files: Russia’s Way to the Gray Zone

7 months ago 187

The Long Arc Of American Power

The Long Arc Of American Power

7 months ago 164

New Reports Reveal Years of Unaddressed Osprey Safety Risks

New Reports Reveal Years of Unaddressed Osprey Saf...

7 months ago 229

The Coast Guard's Mission in the Gray Zone

The Coast Guard's Mission in the Gray Zone

7 months ago 165

The Country’s First ‘Cognitive Advantage’ Chief: Influence Is the New Battlefield

The Country’s First ‘Cognitive Advantage’ Chief: I...

7 months ago 221

What U.S. – China Cooperation Means for the World

What U.S. – China Cooperation Means for the World

7 months ago 165

Coast Guard, Sovereignty, and Homeland Defense

Coast Guard, Sovereignty, and Homeland Defense

7 months ago 156

Remembering Aldrich Ames and the Lives He Destroyed

Remembering Aldrich Ames and the Lives He Destroye...

7 months ago 189

Ruling Venezuela with a 2,000 Mile Hammer is Not Likely to End Well

Ruling Venezuela with a 2,000 Mile Hammer is Not L...

7 months ago 173

The Reality is that Russia is Signaling Minimal Desire for Peace

The Reality is that Russia is Signaling Minimal De...

7 months ago 146

Why Labeling Muslim Brotherhood “Chapters” as Terrorist Groups Is Problematic

Why Labeling Muslim Brotherhood “Chapters” as Terr...

7 months ago 154

Uber Krysha: How Russia Turns Crime into Power—and Poison

Uber Krysha: How Russia Turns Crime into Power—and...

7 months ago 162

Iran’s Crumbling Revolutionary Facade: How Today’s Protests Could Reshape the Region in 2026

Iran’s Crumbling Revolutionary Facade: How Today’s...

7 months ago 259

Trump’s Power Doctrine: A $1.5 Trillion Military, Greenland Ambitions, and a World Ruled by Force

Trump’s Power Doctrine: A $1.5 Trillion Military, ...

7 months ago 184

Now Comes the Hard Part in Venezuela

Now Comes the Hard Part in Venezuela

7 months ago 175

Maduro and Noriega: Assessing the Analogies

Maduro and Noriega: Assessing the Analogies

7 months ago 178

How China Built AI Dominance on Stolen American Silicon

How China Built AI Dominance on Stolen American Si...

7 months ago 226

After Maduro’s Removal, the U.S. Faces Its Hardest Test Yet in Venezuela

After Maduro’s Removal, the U.S. Faces Its Hardest...

7 months ago 266

Agentic AI and the “Human-in-the-Loop” Luxury in Modern Defense

Agentic AI and the “Human-in-the-Loop” Luxury in M...

8 months ago 201

The Kremlin Files: Russia, the Modern Surveillance State

The Kremlin Files: Russia, the Modern Surveillance...

8 months ago 182

Iran’s Supreme Leader Should Listen to the People

Iran’s Supreme Leader Should Listen to the People

8 months ago 184

The U.S. Says it Will “Run” Venezuela. What Will That Mean?

The U.S. Says it Will “Run” Venezuela. What Will T...

8 months ago 153

I've Tracked Terrorist Networks for Decades. I've Never Seen Anything Like 764.

I've Tracked Terrorist Networks for Decades. I've ...

8 months ago 185

Venezuela’s Key Takeaways for the World

Venezuela’s Key Takeaways for the World

8 months ago 191

High Risk in Venezuela—To What End?

High Risk in Venezuela—To What End?

8 months ago 176

Human Agency in a Technology-Mediated World

Human Agency in a Technology-Mediated World

8 months ago 128

After Venezuela, What Is Next in 2026?

After Venezuela, What Is Next in 2026?

8 months ago 245

Venezuela was a Surprise. What Could be Next?

Venezuela was a Surprise. What Could be Next?

8 months ago 182

Building U.S. Drone Dominance Brick by Brick

Building U.S. Drone Dominance Brick by Brick

8 months ago 109

A Trained Eye Sees Strategic Patterns in Venezuela

A Trained Eye Sees Strategic Patterns in Venezuela...

8 months ago 127

Iran’s Protests Expose Deeper Fragility as Leaders Struggle to Contain Crisis

Iran’s Protests Expose Deeper Fragility as Leaders...

8 months ago 126