Olga Oliker is Senior Adviser and Director of the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Prior to joining CSIS, Oliker held a number of senior posts ...

Fabiana Sofia Perera is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Science at George Washington University, where her research focuses on unemployment and social spending in resource dependent ...

Jeffrey Smith is the founding director of Vanguard Africa, a nonprofit organization that supports pro-reform, ethical leaders in Sub-Saharan Africa. Vanguard Africa worked extensively on the recent ...

Sean Wiswesser is a former senior operations officer with the CIA. He served multiple overseas tours and held senior leadership positions such as Chief of Station and in joint-duty assignments across ...

With tensions rising all week, the U.S. has launched a new round of strikes against Iranian military targets and maritime assets. The strikes follow an announcement made by President Donald Trump just ...

Recent discussion of artificial intelligence in intelligence analysis has consistently framed the technology as a means of accelerating an existing process. The intelligence cycle (collection, ...

June 2026 death of Sergei B. Ivanov - the man once thought the most likely successor to Vladimir Putin - as well as the Russian President’s age, his rumored health problems, and the discontent over ...

Drawing on lessons from Ukraine, the Middle East and NATO's eastern flank, General Breedlove explains why drones are only one piece of a much larger revolution in military power. He discusses why ...

John O’Neil, Ph.D. has extensive service in numerous leadership roles in academia and at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where his work lay at the intersection of critical science and technology ...

James “Jim” Lawler served for 25 years as a CIA operations officer in various international posts and as Chief of the ...

Trump says ⁠interim accord with Iran ‘over’ as both sides exchange fresh strikes across Gulf, U.S. blocks oil sales.

Winning tomorrow’s conflicts means countering the persistent networks, cognitive warfare, and gray-zone strategies already ...