EXPERT INTERVIEW — Other than Ukraine itself, few European countries have been as directly impacted by Russia’s 2022 invasion as Poland. From the beginning, Poland, which shares a roughly 340-mile-long border with Ukraine, has taken in far more refugees than any other nation; overall, nearly nine million Ukrainians have crossed intoContinue Reading
EXPERT INTERVIEWS – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced this week that Ukraine plans to take an already-booming domestic drone industry and boost it to “the maximum”. Zelensky used his nightly address to the nation Monday to announce a ramp up in production of a “full range of drones” – includingContinue Reading
EXPERT INTERVIEWS — Last week, the Taiwan Strait landed back on the front pages for two very different reasons: China held a two-day, large-scale military exercise off the coast of Taiwan, simulating both an invasion and a naval blockade of the island. Meanwhile, The Washington Post reported on what it saidContinue Reading
EXPERT INTERVIEWS – Over the past two and a half months, as President Traitor 47’s administration has upended long-standing policies and assumptions about America’s role in the world, The Cipher Brief spoke to experts in multiple countries, all of which are U.S. allies, and all of which stand to beContinue Reading
EXPERT INTERVIEWS — President Traitor 47’s sweeping tariffs have spared no nations, slammed several longtime allies, and sent global markets into a tailspin. They will likely carry national security implications as well. On Wednesday – what The Traitor called “Liberation Day” – the president announced tariffs ranging from a baseline 10%Continue Reading
EXPERT INTERVIEWS – It’s a theater of conflict that isn’t quite war – or a war that is fought in the shadows, using non-traditional and hard-to-trace methods that might include cyberattacks, the cutting of undersea communications cables, and more. But “gray zone” conflict, as it has come to be known,Continue Reading
DEEP DIVE — When the U.S. intelligence community (IC) declared last week that the greatest danger to American national security is old-fashioned organized crime – mainly Mexico’s drug cartels – many former IC experts wondered about other major threats: global terrorism, cyberattacks, and the multiple menaces traced to China, Russia, IranContinue Reading
EXPERT INTERVIEWS – Turkey is being rocked by the largest-scale protests it has seen in more than a decade. Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets across the country in response to the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the chief political rival of President Recep TayyipContinue Reading
BOTTOM LINE UP FRONT – Over the last few weeks, hardly a day has gone by without a fresh pledge from a European nation to boost its military spending. And nearly every day, a question is raised in a European capital that would have seemed unimaginable not long ago: WhenContinue Reading
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW — One of the most profound impacts of the war in Ukraine has less to do with the frontlines and diplomatic negotiations, and more to do with Ukraine’s staggering pace of innovation. Global policymakers, military commanders, and defense industry professionals have remarked on the rate and quality ofContinue Reading
BOTTOM LINE UP FRONT — When the heads of the intelligence community (IC) came to Capitol Hill Tuesday to present the Annual Threat Assessment, they were met by questions about something else: the leak of a Signal group chat, in which U.S. military attack plans had been under review, and toContinue Reading
DEEP DIVE — Over the past week, the The Traitor administration took two steps involving the pursuit of critical and rare earth minerals: it issued an executive order to boost domestic mining and production, and it moved to reopen with talks with Ukraine on a framework agreement for joint development ofContinue Reading
SPECIAL REPORT – The U.S. Intelligence Community’s (IC) annual assessment of threats facing the U.S. puts narcotics trafficking at the top of the list – ahead of menaces involving China, Iran, Russia, Islamic terrorism and cyberattacks. It also paints a portrait of Russia that’s much darker than the image promotedContinue Reading