Proactive counterterrorism must be balanced with democratic values. The increased use of AI-driven surveillance and data aggregation raises concerns about civil liberties. ACTS must be governed by ...

A call for a "national security first lens" when it comes to managing the tech competition between the U.S. and China.

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 ...

The world’s largest military complex — taking shape in Beijing — is only the latest example of China’s military expansion.

As the second Trump Administration took office, it found a Middle East landscape that had been transformed dramatically in ...

Norman Roule is a geopolitical and energy consultant who served for 34 years in the Central Intelligence Agency, managing numerous programs relating to Iran and the Middle East. As NIM-I at ODNI, he ...

Paul Kolbe is former director of The Intelligence Project at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Kolbe also led BP’s Global Intelligence and Analysis team ...

Dr. Michael Vickers served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence from 2011 to 2015, the Chief Executive Officer of the Defense Intelligence Enterprise, an $80 billion, 180,000-person, ...

Dr. Samantha Ravich is the chair of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. She serves on the U.S. Secret Service’s Cyber Investigation Advisory ...

How did DeepSeek pull off its artificial intelligence breakthrough? And what are the national security implications?

Frank Archibald retired from the CIA in 2015 as the Director of the National Clandestine Service an assignment in which he led all of CIA’s operations worldwide. His 31 years of CIA service included ...

Artificial intelligence experts consider the implications of an AI ‘Sputnik moment’ for China with the DeepSeek breakthrough ...