This Memorial Day, The Cipher Brief is remembering the Americans who answered the call after Russia launched its unprovoked, deadly invasion of Ukraine in February of 2022. What follows is a deeply personal account of the war through the eyes of two Americans who have lived it. This piece wasContinue Reading
Russia has industrialized cognitive warfare, producing synthetic media at scale through a modular system that targets soldiers, civilians, and Western publics with distinct engineered effects. A Chinese frontier AI capable of executing the same doctrine is now freely available worldwide, unrestricted and priced within reach of any actor. The U.S.Continue Reading
“The unfortunate truth is that it’s fallen to the lot of all of us to modernize the entire [U.S.] nuclear triad at once. Probably, in retrospect, we should have been doing pieces of it over the last 30 or plus years. Plus…we’re having to modernize the nuclear weapon production [warheads,Continue Reading
OPINION – A global debate is underway over how much human involvement should be required when artificial intelligence is implemented in military operations. This is typically described on a spectrum: “human-in-the-loop,” where a system can select targets and apply force only with human authorization; “human-on-the-loop,” where a system selects andContinue Reading
OPINION – When UAE Energy Minister Suhail al-Mazrouei announced Tuesday that Abu Dhabi is leaving OPEC – a cartel it has been a member of since 1967 – he called it a “pure policy change” and a “policy-driven evolution aligned with long-term market fundamentals.” It was considerably more than that.Continue Reading
DEEP DIVE – As the U.S. grapples with the still-unsolved problem of Iran’s nuclear program, another American adversary is expanding its nuclear arsenal at a dangerous pace. That’s the view of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and other experts after a flurry of alarming news from North Korea. AccordingContinue Reading