Carlo J.V. Caro holds a master's degree in Islamic and Security Studies from Columbia University and is a political and ...

In the age of strategic disruption, critical infrastructure is both the terrain and the target. The West’s optimization of systems for efficiency and scale has inadvertently created a landscape of ...

How will the Houthis respond to the devastating Israeli strikes on Iran? This moment could prove decisive for both the ...

China is pre-positioning itself on U.S. networks for disruptive and destructive attacks against our critical infrastructure.

Edmund Fitton-Brown is a senior advisor to the Counter Extremism Project. He formerly served as British ambassador to Yemen and as a coordinator of the UN Security Council’s Monitoring Team for ISIS, ...

CIPHER BRIEF REPORTING – Given the state of damage Iran has suffered since Israel launched a devastating round of airstrikes targeting nuclear and military leaders last Thursday – and an increasing ...

OPINION — In March 2025 the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) published an unclassified report on “Wealth and Corrupt Activities of the Leadership of the Chinese Communist Party ...

On June 6, 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began carrying out immigration raids in Los Angeles. ICE executed search warrants at multiple locations across the city and as Breyer put it, ...

Report for Tuesday, June 17, 2025. Trump departs G7 early as U.S. moves military assets to Europe and the Middle East; Russian missile and drone strikes on Kyiv kill 15, injure at least 114 ...

OPINION — As experts studiously debate what the latest Israel-Iran fighting will lead to, including a possible Iranian collapse, one enduring but less understood reality goes mostly untreated: ...

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Dr. Michael Vickers served as Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence from 2011 to 2015 and as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations, Low Intensity Conflict, and Interdependent ...