#TheCipherBrief HONORS Dinner recognizes professionals who have made significant contributions to the national security dialogue across a range of areas from government leadership to private sector innovation to transparency through journalism and reflection on who we are as a…

My review of David Sanger's David Sanger powerful new book on geopolitics appears in The Cipher Brief today. thecipherbrief.com/book-review/th…

#TheCipherBrief HONORS Dinner recognizes professionals who have made significant contributions to the national security dialogue across a range of areas from government leadership to private sector innovation to transparency through journalism and reflection on who we are as a…

OPINION -- 'The rapid innovation cycle taking place in the war in #Ukraine is changing how war is fought, reviving the efficacy of old technologies like trenches, artillery, and mines through new innovations, pushing governments and their industrial policies that will ultimately…

5/30 Behind-the-scenes pics from The Cipher Brief in #ukraine . Traveling w/ this crew is eye-opening. 3 former CIA Sr Intel Officers, ret. VADM and ret. 3-star General.

SUBSCRIBER+ EXCLUSIVE ANALYSIS — #Iran ’s retaliatory strikes against Israel this weekend were both a potentially game-changing, historic first — and an underwhelming response. Historic, because Iran itself had never attacked #Israel directly, choosing instead to use its proxies…

NEW BOOK REVIEW: The Russian FSB: A Concise History of the Federal Security Service

The Reviewer – Michael Sulick is a consultant on counterintelligence and global risk. He served as Chief of Counterintelligence and Director of the Clandestine Service at #CIA and is the author…

The US still does not fully grasp the nature of the Russian threat, Russia’s sources of power and weakness, and the Russian way of war – including reflexive control. This knowledge gap is reflected in the prevailing US national security assessment that, while Russia poses the…

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SUBSCRIBER+EXCLUSIVE -- Major #Russian missile and #drone attacks damaged #Ukraine 's power grid infrastructure this week. The Trypilska Thermal Power Plant, the largest in the Kyiv region, was destroyed in the attacks. Earlier this week, three drones hit the #Zaporizhzhia Nuclear…

Important perspective from Tymofiy Mylovanov

4/30 Behind-the-scenes pics from The Cipher Brief's Kyiv Forum as New North Ventures Jeremy Hitchcock talks w/ Ukraine's Minister of Energy German Galuschenko, who says Ukraine moving toward nuclear accident.
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3/30 Behind-the-scenes pictures from The Cipher Brief's visit to #Ukraine . Anyone who travels with General David H. Petraeus, US Army (Ret.) knows he hits the ground running. Almost immediately after our delegation arrived in #Kyiv early morning, we were meeting with Ukraine's…

AGAINST ALL ODDS, UKRAINIANS DOUBLE DOWN AND HOPE FOR U.S. 'MORALE BOOST'

SUBSCRIBER+EXCLUSIVE -- In the spring of 2022, #Ukraine beat back a #Russian assault on the nation’s capital and punished the invaders. Two years later, the country faces stark realities on multiple…

The National Security Honors Event of the Year represents a paramount celebration within the international security domain, epitomizing the acme of acknowledgment for those distinguished individuals whose indelible contributions have significantly advanced the discourse on…

3/30 Behind-the-scenes pics from The Cipher Brief's trip to Ukraine. Gen David Petraeus hit the ground running. Almost immediately after we arrived in Kyiv, we were meeting w/ Ukraine's Minister of Defense Rustem Umerov and his leadership team. Defense of Ukraine

Tymofiy Mylovanov is one of the leading economists of his time. He sat dowon with me for The Cipher Brief State Secrets podcast to talk about Ukraine's enormous economic potential.
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US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin made a very good point in his testimony yesterday that's often overlooked or ignored by critics of military aid to Ukraine: 'The military doesn't give Ukraine money. It provides security assistance in the form of weapons and munitions, and we…