Elaine Shannon, contributing editor at The Cipher Brief, is a former correspondent for Time and Newsweek. Her latest book is ...

Karyn Eliot is a retired CIA senior executive with extensive experience in US national security science and technology programs, intelligence operations, acquisitions, policy, and strategic industry ...

Ambassador DeTrani served as the U.S. Representative to the Korea Energy Development Organization (KEDO), as well as former CIA director of East Asia Operations. He also served as Associate Director ...

Former Director, The Intelligence Project at Harvard University’s Belfer Center Paul Kolbe is former director of The Intelligence Project at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and ...

Mary Margaret Graham served for 29+ years at the Central Intelligence Agency, holding numerous field and headquarters assignments. She was appointed as the first Deputy Director of National ...

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 ...

Brigadier General Gwyn Armfield (Ret.) recently completed nearly three decades of service in the US Air Force. He is the founder of RGA Consulting Group which advises clients on leadership, risk ...

Kelly Bissell joined Microsoft as Corporate Vice President in 2022. Prior to this, he led Accenture’s Global Security business. With more than 25 years of security industry experience, Bissell ...

A former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine on the roadmap -- and roadblocks -- for Trump 2.0, NATO and an end to the war.

Scholar-in-Residence and Adjunct Professor at the Washington College of Law Corin R. Stone is a Scholar-in-Residence and Adjunct Professor at the Washington College of Law. Stone is on leave from the ...

For the first time, the Biden Administration has authorized Ukraine to use long-range ATACMS missiles to strike targets ...

Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion, a special Cipher Brief report uses data to take stock of the war.