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In the Biden Administration’s highest-level face-to-face visit, Secretary of State Antony Blinken is traveling to the Middle East to seize momentum created by last week’s Gaza ceasefire in what could be the first step back toward peace talks. The Biden Administration has been criticized for not taking more aggressive action to try and end the … Continue reading "How the Middle East Conflict Leads Back to US National Security"

The Cipher Daily Brief Get a daily rundown of the top security stories delivered to your inbox Monday through Friday with exclusive briefs and columns on what matters most to you and your organization. SIGN UP FOR The Free NewsletterSign up A Duty to Inform the Public on Cyber May 18, 2021 The Newsletter OPINION — “Cyber is now the critical domain to every facet of our National Security.” Those words were spoken last Friday by Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wisc.) at a hearing of the House Armed ...

Pipeline Attack Yields Urgent Lessons About U.S. Cybersecurity The hack underscored how vulnerable government and industry are to even basic assaults on computer networks. Cybersecurity experts said Colonial Pipeline would never have had to shut down its pipeline if it had more confidence in the separation between its business network and pipeline operations.Credit...Drone Base, via Reuters Published May 14, 2021Updated May 18, 2021 For years, government officials and industry executives have r...

The Cipher Daily Brief Get a daily rundown of the top security stories delivered to your inbox Monday through Friday with exclusive briefs and columns on what matters most to you and your organization. SIGN UP FOR The Free NewsletterSign up Intelligence on Afghanistan: A Difficult but not Impossible Task May 12, 2021 | Neil Wiley The Newsletter Lieutenant General Robert P. Ashley, Jr. is former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, where we reported directly to the Under Secretary of De...

Dr. Kenneth Dekleva served as a Regional Medical Officer/Psychiatrist (including 5 years at the U.S. Embassy Moscow, Russian Federation) with the U.S. Dept. of State during 2002-2016, and is currently Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Director, Psychiatry-Medicine Integration, UT Southwestern Medical Center. The views expressed are his own. OPINION — The recent release by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence of its [unclassified] annual threat assessment is both welcome and...

The Cipher Daily Brief Get a daily rundown of the top security stories delivered to your inbox Monday through Friday with exclusive briefs and columns on what matters most to you and your organization. SIGN UP FOR The Free NewsletterSign up The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Reality of Afghanistan May 5, 2021 The Newsletter Cipher Brief Expert John McLaughlin served as Acting CIA Director from July to September 2004 and as Deputy Director from October 2000 to July 2004. He is the Distinguished Prac...

The Cipher Daily Brief Get a daily rundown of the top security stories delivered to your inbox Monday through Friday with exclusive briefs and columns on what matters most to you and your organization. SIGN UP FOR The Free NewsletterSign up A New Age for Arms Control May 4, 2021 The Newsletter Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist for The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on topics from nuclear weapons to politics. OPINION — It’...

The Cipher Daily Brief Get a daily rundown of the top security stories delivered to your inbox Monday through Friday with exclusive briefs and columns on what matters most to you and your organization. SIGN UP FOR The Free NewsletterSign up How to Integrate Climate in Future National Security May 4, 2021 The Newsletter As part of a special series on climate in partnership with The Intelligence Project at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, and Cipher Brie...

The Cipher Daily Brief Get a daily rundown of the top security stories delivered to your inbox Monday through Friday with exclusive briefs and columns on what matters most to you and your organization. SIGN UP FOR The Free NewsletterSign up Bringing National Security into our Daily Dialogue May 3, 2021 The Newsletter Cipher Brief Expert Ambassador Joseph DeTrani is former Special envoy for Six Party Talks with North Korea and former CIA director of East Asia Operations. He also served as the As...

Joshua Stone is a U.S.-China relations specialist and Ph.D. Political Science student with the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. His research concentration centers on U.S.-China security relations, U.S. foreign policy toward China, and methods of coercion in international affairs. Stone is a combat veteran of the United States Army. ACADEMIC INCUBATOR – China’s great power status has ebbed and flowed over the centuries. Its last hegemon, the Qing Dynasty, l...