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The Cipher Brief

DNI Day One: Three Strategic Decisions for National Security Evolution

DNI Day One: Three Strategic Decisions for Nationa...

4 months ago 114

AI Is Speeding Up Intelligence, But Not the System Around It

AI Is Speeding Up Intelligence, But Not the System...

4 months ago 137

Why Human Intelligence Matters More in an AI World

Why Human Intelligence Matters More in an AI World...

4 months ago 143

The AI Race Won't Be Won by the Best Model—But by the Fastest Military

The AI Race Won't Be Won by the Best Model—But by ...

4 months ago 132

Can the Pentagon Buy Faster Before the Next War Arrives?

Can the Pentagon Buy Faster Before the Next War Ar...

4 months ago 139

The Warning Paradox: Why Correct Intelligence Often Fails

The Warning Paradox: Why Correct Intelligence Ofte...

4 months ago 120

America's Veterans Are a Defense-Tech Asset — We're Wasting Them

America's Veterans Are a Defense-Tech Asset — We'r...

4 months ago 119

Economic Security in an Age of Strategic Competition

Economic Security in an Age of Strategic Competiti...

4 months ago 158

The Future of Intelligence Space Assets: SAR, Electro-Optical and AI Fusion

The Future of Intelligence Space Assets: SAR, Elec...

4 months ago 160

The Morning Brief: What the PDB Can Offer the Corporate Leadership Team

The Morning Brief: What the PDB Can Offer the Corp...

4 months ago 148

Russia’s Taliban Embrace Signals a New Power Shift in Afghanistan

Russia’s Taliban Embrace Signals a New Power Shift...

4 months ago 149

Governance Failure and Civil Resistance in Azad Jammu and Kashmir

Governance Failure and Civil Resistance in Azad Ja...

4 months ago 142

How Gulf States Turned Crisis Into Confidence

How Gulf States Turned Crisis Into Confidence

4 months ago 144

Russian Active Measures, And More Dirty Tricks: Expect Russia to Escalate Its Attacks on our Democracies

Russian Active Measures, And More Dirty Tricks: Ex...

4 months ago 121

Qatar's New Online Influence Machine

Qatar's New Online Influence Machine

4 months ago 123

The Forgotten History Moscow Doesn’t Want Remembered

The Forgotten History Moscow Doesn’t Want Remember...

4 months ago 133

Rubio Lays Out Trump Administration’s Iran Endgame

Rubio Lays Out Trump Administration’s Iran Endgame...

4 months ago 120

Middle East at the Brink: Norm Roule on Iran, Israel, and the High-Stakes Struggle Taking Shape

Middle East at the Brink: Norm Roule on Iran, Isra...

4 months ago 138

An Unusually Likeable Human Being, And A Spy

An Unusually Likeable Human Being, And A Spy

4 months ago 111

Remembering Alex Younger: The Intelligence Chief Who Shaped a Generation

Remembering Alex Younger: The Intelligence Chief W...

4 months ago 142

Can the Pentagon’s New Innovation System Deliver?

Can the Pentagon’s New Innovation System Deliver?

4 months ago 165

Why the U.S. Cannot Afford to Lose Intelligence Partners

Why the U.S. Cannot Afford to Lose Intelligence Pa...

4 months ago 141

Radical Empathy: The Counterintuitive Skill That Made Me Better at Everything Else

Radical Empathy: The Counterintuitive Skill That M...

4 months ago 129

China’s Uneasy Partnerships With Russia and North Korea

China’s Uneasy Partnerships With Russia and North ...

4 months ago 181

From Terror Networks to Hybrid Threats: A Partner Approach to a Growing Threat

From Terror Networks to Hybrid Threats: A Partner ...

4 months ago 148

The Semantic Pixel: Why the U.S. Must Build the Ultimate Multi-Modal Foundation Model

The Semantic Pixel: Why the U.S. Must Build the Ul...

4 months ago 161

Invisible Conflict: Defending Against Hybrid Non-Kinetic Warfare

Invisible Conflict: Defending Against Hybrid Non-K...

4 months ago 182

Deterrence Is Not Enough in the Age of Synthetic Asymmetry

Deterrence Is Not Enough in the Age of Synthetic A...

4 months ago 162

Endless Warfare: How America’s Adversaries Compete Across Peace and War

Endless Warfare: How America’s Adversaries Compete...

4 months ago 160

Your AI Isn’t My AI: The Quiet Splintering Ahead

Your AI Isn’t My AI: The Quiet Splintering Ahead

4 months ago 153

Before Funding a Record Defense Budget, Congress Should Demand Answers on Iran

Before Funding a Record Defense Budget, Congress S...

4 months ago 161

How Anonymous Wikipedia Editors Influence Global Narratives — and AI Systems

How Anonymous Wikipedia Editors Influence Global N...

4 months ago 176

Part II: When a Machiavellian and a Charismatic Met

Part II: When a Machiavellian and a Charismatic Me...

4 months ago 189

Narco-Terrorism as Grey-Zone Warfare: Pakistan’s Hidden Front Against India

Narco-Terrorism as Grey-Zone Warfare: Pakistan’s H...

4 months ago 172

AI, Autonomous Weapons, and the Pentagon’s $55 Billion Bet on Future War

AI, Autonomous Weapons, and the Pentagon’s $55 Bil...

4 months ago 215

Remembering the Americans Who Made Ukraine’s War Their Own

Remembering the Americans Who Made Ukraine’s War T...

5 months ago 252

DHS Has Become Central to American Strategy, But Its Strategy Has Not Caught Up

DHS Has Become Central to American Strategy, But I...

5 months ago 173

“The G-2”: Takeaways from Trump's Trip to Beijing

“The G-2”: Takeaways from Trump's Trip to Beijing

5 months ago 192

A Tale of Two Straits: Sweden and Denmark are in a Position of Power Over Russia

A Tale of Two Straits: Sweden and Denmark are in a...

5 months ago 233

Proscribing the IRGC Will Make Britain Safer

Proscribing the IRGC Will Make Britain Safer

5 months ago 235

Iran's Digital War Machine Targeting U.S. Infrastructure

Iran's Digital War Machine Targeting U.S. Infrastr...

5 months ago 252

The Limits of Human Oversight at Machine Speed

The Limits of Human Oversight at Machine Speed

5 months ago 183

Intelligence at the Speed of Relevance: Rethinking the Intelligence Cycle for the AI Era

Intelligence at the Speed of Relevance: Rethinking...

5 months ago 163

Moscow and Beijing’s shadow war: How Russia and China are keeping Iran lethal

Moscow and Beijing’s shadow war: How Russia and Ch...

5 months ago 220

Inside the FBI’s New Push to Track Leaks and Monitor Employees

Inside the FBI’s New Push to Track Leaks and Monit...

5 months ago 194

Roses, Trees, and Power: The Symbolism Behind the Trump-Xi Summit

Roses, Trees, and Power: The Symbolism Behind the ...

5 months ago 200

The administration needs a better relationship with the Vatican

The administration needs a better relationship wit...

5 months ago 159

A Bridge Too Small: Why $49 Billion Can’t Fix a $1.5 Trillion Problem

A Bridge Too Small: Why $49 Billion Can’t Fix a $1...

5 months ago 283

Sustaining Decision Advantage: The Case for Analytic Tradecraft Reform

Sustaining Decision Advantage: The Case for Analyt...

5 months ago 186

The Bear and the Dragon: The Threat of Sino-Russian Opportunism and Intelligence Miscalculation

The Bear and the Dragon: The Threat of Sino-Russia...

5 months ago 183