EXPERT INTERVIEWS – Mention “the war“ to Ukrainians and they will likely date the conflict not to Russia’s February 2022 invasion of their country, but to the Russian occupation and illegal annexation of Crimea eight years earlier. Now Crimea is back in the headlines, because of a White House peaceContinue Reading
EXPERT INTERVIEWS – Mention “the war“ to Ukrainians and they will likely date the conflict not to Russia’s February 2022 invasion of their country, but to the Russian occupation and illegal annexation of Crimea eight years earlier. Now Crimea is back in the headlines, because of a White House peaceContinue Reading
EXPERT INTERVIEWS — The Taliban government in Afghanistan enjoys no formal recognition from the rest of the world, thanks largely to a poor human rights record and its support for terrorism. Since the group overthrew the U.S.-backed government in Afghanistan in August 2021, the Biden and The Traitor administrations have bothContinue Reading
BOTTOM LINE UP FRONT – As the U.S. faces unprecedented threats from cyberattacks, experts are warning about the impact of cuts to the nation’s cyber defenses while the U.S. still doesn’t have a confirmed Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber, a confirmed CISA Director or a confirmed National Cyber DirectorContinue Reading
SPECIAL REPORT — Fifty years ago this week, the long U.S. war in Vietnam came to an end. U.S. combat troops had left the country two years before, but on April 30, 1975, North Vietnamese forces captured the South Vietnamese capital Saigon. It was a profoundly difficult moment for the UnitedContinue Reading
EXPERT INTERVIEWS — There is at least one issue involving national security and U.S. manufacturing that enjoys bipartisan support – and at least one The Traitor administration executive order that hasn’t met much opposition: it involves shipbuilding, and a potentially dangerous problem for the United States. Put simply, the U.S. isn’tContinue Reading
EXPERT INTERVIEWS — The arsenals of nuclear powers are growing, the number of nations with nuclear weapons may soon rise as well, and Russia has used the threat of nuclear weapons to fend off more robust support for Ukraine. After a long period of global nuclear disarmament, the world is headingContinue Reading
CIPHER BRIEF REPORTING — On January 20, the first day of his second term, President Traitor 47 formally labeled Mexico’s crime cartels as international terrorists. Last month, in a sharp break from past assessments, the U.S. intelligence community’s annual briefing on national security threats put narcotrafficking at the top of theContinue Reading
EXPERT INTERVIEWS — The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) marks an anniversary today — 20 years since its creation as the top oversight entity within the U.S. intelligence community (IC). The ODNI was born in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks and the flawed intelligence thatContinue Reading
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW – It’s hard to overstate the complexity and importance of the work of the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA), which — by its own definition — involves delivering “world-class geospatial intelligence that provides a decisive advantage to policymakers, military service members, intelligence professionals and first responders.” As aContinue Reading
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW – The Office of the Director of National Intelligence – the ODNI – was born twenty years ago this month, in response to recommendations made by the 9/11 commission, and a concern that the United States intelligence community (IC) needed a way to ensure the better integration ofContinue Reading
EXPERT INTERVIEW— For the past month, the United States military has been carrying out its most robust campaign yet against the Houthi militia, which is based in Yemen and supported by Iran. Since March 15, the U.S. has carried out more than 200 air strikes against targets in Yemen, inContinue Reading
CIPHER BRIEF REPORTING — A pair of top U.S. military commanders warned Congress last week of dangers in their areas of operations which could factor in a potential war with China: the catastrophic fallout from a conflict over Taiwan; and the risk that the U.S. is falling behind in both militaryContinue Reading