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 ...

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 ...

In this latest installment of our “Memos to 47” series, Douglas Lute, a former U.S. Ambassador to NATO, looks at the Ukraine war – in particular, the steady but (in his view) too-slow pace of American ...

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, ...

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