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Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was originally enacted as a post 9/11surveillance program that ...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

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) ...

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

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 ...

The conflict in Iran is not solely the result of 47 years of unresolved tension. That framing misses a more consequential story: what is unfolding is a significant disruption to China's grand strategy ...

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

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