Former NSA Director General Paul Nakasone passionately supports the clean reauthorization of Section 702 of the FISA Act, emphasizing its crucial role in national security. Without it, our nation ...

The Navy says its changing the way it does business after some costly overhauls.  Will the new way be any better?  Cipher Brief Senior National Security Columnist Walter Pincus digs into the numbers.

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After years of observing from afar, the U.S. is now confronting the economic and operational realities of drone warfare in ...

Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was originally enacted as a post 9/11surveillance program that ...

In this issue we will discuss implications of the Drone Dominance Program, how weakness in the U.S. industrial base has been laid bare, and how the war with Iran could benefit our adversaries. Private ...

What began as a campaign to weaken Iran is now rippling through global markets, NATO cohesion, humanitarian systems, and the ...

Drones in Ukraine and in the War with Iran have made the surface of the earth a contested space. The U.S. has discovered that 1) air superiority and missile defense systems (THAAD, Patriot batteries) ...

Even after devastating U.S.-Israeli strikes, intelligence assessments suggest Iran’s regime is hardening, not collapsing.

Washington’s strategy for artificial general intelligence (AGI), or the ability to replace human cognitive labor, assumes the United States is locked in a decisive race with Beijing—one requiring ...

Strategic intelligence, usually perceived as intelligence supporting the formulation of strategy, has always had limited influence over national security decisions. Leaders in democratic countries, ...

Russia and China are certainly concerned about the desperate state of Iran’s regime, an invaluable transactional partner to both countries. Yet they are also working to secure more strategic gains at ...