Cipher Brief Senior National Security Columnist Walter Pincus examines the U.S. mission in Space and how it's working out.

SPECIAL REPORT – In the last days of 2024, The Cipher Brief turned to our network of experts – who spend much of their time ...

Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist for The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on topics that ranged ...

Mary Margaret Graham served for 29+ years at the Central Intelligence Agency, holding numerous field and headquarters assignments. She was appointed as the first Deputy Director of National ...

Why Russia Invaded Ukraine by Lucian Kim, which explores the mind of Putin and his perspective on Ukraine.

A review of a year filled with headlines that few in the national security and intelligence space could have imagined, one ...

Ambassador Douglas E. Lute is Chair of the International and Defense Practices, BGR Group; CEO of Cambridge Global Advisors, LLC; and Distinguished Chair of Social Sciences, U.S. Military Academy, ...

An end-of-year roundup of recommendations, many from Cipher Brief experts, from our "Under Cover" Book Review series.

OPINION — The lightning speed with which Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, toppled the brutal Assad regime in Syria signaled the demise of global Islamic jihad, the rise of territorial political Islam, ...