Whose analysis do we trust? John Sipher says, be careful what to believe after failed predictions at the start of the Ukraine war.

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Officials see a range of election interference ploys - some aimed at Trump, some at Harris, and most just looking to disrupt ...

As Russian forces make slow but steady gains in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region – recently seizing Vulhedar, a coal mining ...

The Reviewer — Martin Petersen is a CIA veteran, Asia expert, and a Cipher Brief Expert. He is the author of City of Lost Souls, A Novel of Shanghai 1932, which will be published November 26th.

Many may have thought that the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was untouchable in Lebanon, and that an unprovoked Israeli attack on Nasrallah in Beirut was too high-risk, politically and otherwise.

That was H.R. McMaster, from his recent book, At War With Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House. McMaster was then National Security Advisor, briefing then-President Donald Trump on the ...

William Burns praised Israel's tactical wins but urged a fresh strategy and 'smart diplomacy' to end the wars in Lebanon and ...

Kelly Bissell joined Microsoft as Corporate Vice President in 2022. Prior to this, he led Accenture’s Global Security business. With more than 25 years of security industry experience, Bissell ...

John Nixon was a senior leadership analyst with the CIA from 1998 to 2011. He did several tours in Iraq and was recognized by a number of federal agencies for his contribution to the war effort.

General Michael V. Hayden is a retired four-star General in the United States Air Force; he served as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency from 2006-2009 and as Director of the National ...

Former Chief of Innovation and Technology at the CIA Open Source Center During her 20-year CIA career, Kristin Wood served in the Director’s area and three Agency directorates – analysis, operations, ...