The Department of Defense does not always announce structural shifts loudly; often, it buries them in the dense columns of budget lines where only the most attentive analysts can find the seismic ...

For a decade the cybersecurity community was predicting a cyber apocalypse tied to a single event - the day a Cryptographically Relevant Quantum Computer could run Shor’s algorithm and break the ...

The threat from cyberattacks has never been more acute, but there is reason to worry America is not rising to the challenge. It is not the lack of a cybersecurity strategy, but rather a growing gap ...

The Fourth Option earns an impressive 3 out of 4 trench coats ...

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In the private sector, we analyze competitors to understand where they excel, so we can improve our approach. With this same mindset, I reviewed how 15 adversarial groups utilize media to communicate ...

Just a few weeks ago, Pakistan, the host for fragile ceasefire talks aiming to end the war between the U.S. and Iran, was at ...

The Rise and Fall of Japan’s Most Controversial World War II GeneralPeter Mauch / Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University PressReviewed by: Jean-Thomas NicoleJean-Thomas Nicole — Jean-Thomas ...

Petraeus on Iran Endgame & Ukraine’s Drone War: What the Future of Conflict Looks Like ...

Cash is the Executive Director of The Steady State. He also served as former Senior Advisor the Under Secretary for Intelligence at DHS and as Chief Counsel and Staff Director (Minority) to a ...

Dr. Kenneth Dekleva is a former physician-diplomat with the U.S. State Dept., Professor of Psychiatry, UT Southwestern Medical Center and the founder and CEO of Blackwood Advisory Solutions LLC. The ...

Marc Polymeropoulos served 26 years in the CIA before retiring from the Senior Intelligence Service in June 2019. His positions included field and headquarters operational assignments covering the ...