The [Defense] Secretary [Pete Hegseth] sent nonpublic DoD information [on March 15 at 11:44 EDT] identifying the quantity and strike times of manned U.S. aircraft over hostile [Houthi] territory [in ...

The commissioning and flag-presenting ceremony of the Fujian, China's first aircraft carrier equipped with electromagnetic catapults, is held at a naval port in Sanya City, south China's Hainan ...

South Korea’s Korea Institute for Defense Analysis recently publicly stated that we underestimated North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. According to their analysis, North Korea has between 127 and ...

Reports from Moscow suggest that U.S. representatives Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff are “optimistic” about the prospect of results from their discussion with Kremlin officials this week. But after ...

China’s Epic Campaign to Steal America’s SecretsBy David R. Shedd and Andrew Badger / HarperReviewed by: Nick FishwickThe Reviewer Nick Fishwick CMG retired after nearly thirty years in the British ...

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John P. Carlin is a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison, LLP. He is the former U.S. Acting Deputy Attorney General and a former chair of Morrison & Foerster's Global Risk and Crisis ...

Former Cipher Brief Expert Matthew Olsen is the Assistant Attorney General for National Security. He is also the former Chief Trust and Security Officer at Uber. Olsen spent over twenty years working ...

Perry Cammack is a fellow in the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Prior to joining Carnegie last August, he worked on Secretary John Kerry's policy planning staff ...

Karyn Eliot is a retired CIA senior executive with extensive experience in US national security science and technology programs, intelligence operations, acquisitions, policy, and strategic industry ...