A long-time intelligence and technology expert worries that bureaucracy and a failure of imagination are a national security ...

One theme he stresses throughout is that historically, the United States does not end wars well. “Maybe it’s because of our ...

For purposes of National Security and Freedom throughout the World, the United States of America feels that the ownership and control of Greenland is an [...] More ...

Tom Nagorski is the Managing Editor for The Cipher Brief. He previously served as Global Editor for Grid and served as ABC ...

Kelton retired from CIA as a senior executive with 34 years of experience in intelligence operations. He is a partner at the FiveEyes Group; a member of the Board of Trustees of Valley Forge Military ...

Rob Dannenberg served as chief of operations for CIA’s Counterterrorism Center, chief of the Central Eurasia Division and chief of the Information Operations Center before retiring from the Agency. He ...

Mr. Roche was the Associate Deputy Director of CIA for Digital Innovation serving as the second-in-command of CIA’s first new directorate in more than 50 years. The Directorate of Digital Innovation ...

Dr. Michael Vickers served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence from 2011 to 2015, the Chief Executive Officer of the Defense Intelligence Enterprise, an $80 billion, 180,000-person, ...

Sir Alex Younger says many of Trump’s diagnoses of problems are “spot-on”, but some of his prescriptions are “dead wrong.” ...

John Pereira John Pereira Former CIA Director for Support John Pereira retired from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) after serving for 30+ years, including as Deputy Director and then Director of ...

There was much more, an you can find it here and/or watch Burns’ appearance on our program The World Deciphered.

Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist for The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on topics that ranged ...