Taiwan braces for its largest military exercise ever, with 22,000 reservists mobilized amid escalating tensions with Beijing.

Cipher Brief Expert Daniel Hoffman is a former senior officer with the Central Intelligence Agency, where he served as a three-time station chief and a senior executive Clandestine Services officer.

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Harry Coker Jr. is the Secretary of the Maryland Department of Commerce. He served as national cyber director from 2023 to ...

President Donald J. Trump has returned to office with the renewed revelations that Chinese government-affiliated hackers continue to outmatch America’s critical infrastructure cyber defenders through ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Washington D.C. on Monday to meet with President Donald Trump at the White House — their third meeting this year. Netanyahu’s visit follows the U.S ...

Ia Meurmishvili is Chief International Correspondent at The Cipher Brief. She is a former Managing Editor at Voice of America's Georgian Service, where she hosted the weekly news magazine, "View from ...

Peter S. Green is a veteran foreign correspondent who has covered wars, revolutions and the evolution of democracy, capitalism and authoritarianism in Eastern Europe and the Balkans for The Times of ...

The American force posture in the Middle East — some 40,000 troops spread across the region — came into focus following the 12-day war between Israel and Iran, and the U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear ...

Beth Asch is a senior principal economist at RAND. Her areas of study include labor and personnel economics and defense manpower. She has led numerous studies on compensation design in the military ...

BOOK REVIEW: Fuji Fire: Sifting Ashes of a Forgotten U.S. Marine Corps TragedyBy Chas Henry / Potomac BooksReviewed by: Bill ...

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