Brian Bonner joined The Cipher Brief in March 2024. He led the Kyiv Post, Ukraine's English-language newspaper, from ...

OPINION – “I think the thing that’ll be really important is how you make them [new unmanned aircraft], because this is another thing the [Pentagon] acquisition system doesn’t do. It thinks about the ...

VADM Kevin Donegan (Ret.) warns that the U.S. has a window of time to force real change in The Middle East, exclusively in The Cipher Brief ...

From Ukraine to Russia, the Middle East to China – how the Trump-Vance administration may handle global challenges ...

Chair of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation (CCTI) at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies Dr. Samantha Ravich is the chair of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at the ...

Ambassador Boucher served 32 years at the U.S. Department of State, including roles as Ambassador to Cyprus, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asia, and Spokesman for six different Secretaries ...

Hoffman served as a three-time station chief and a senior executive clandestine service officer with assignments included tours of duty in the former Soviet Union, Europe, and war zones in the Middle ...

Zelensky rebuffs Trump’s proposal for a rapid peace deal in the Ukraine war ...

Experts say the government and private sector are racing to mitigate election interference risks in the final runup to ...

Tim Willasey-Wilsey served for over 27 years in the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office and is now Visiting Professor of War Studies at King’s College, London. His first overseas posting was in ...

A dozen member of The Cipher Brief network offer advice to president-elect Trump on dealing with a "dangerous world." ...

DEEP DIVE — Throughout Election Day and a long election night, one major story had nothing to do with the results at the ...