There was much more, an you can find it here and/or watch Burns’ appearance on our program The World Deciphered.

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Cipher Brief Senior National Security Columnist Walter Pincus examines the U.S. mission in Space and how it's working out.

Why Russia Invaded Ukraine by Lucian Kim, which explores the mind of Putin and his perspective on Ukraine.

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CYBER INTERVIEW – National Security Agency (NSA) Director General Timothy Haugh said Thursday that U.S. cyber defenses didn’t ...

In this latest installment of our “Memos to 47” series, Douglas Lute, a former U.S. Ambassador to NATO, looks at the Ukraine war – in particular, the steady but (in his view) too-slow pace of American ...

DEEP DIVE — Amid all the uncertainty that has followed the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, one issue ranks highest for the ...

Some of the authors he writes about were established novelists before the start of the war. Graham Greene, Peter Fleming and ...

The spate of drone sightings may pose no threat -- but a Cipher Brief expert says they carry a message: the US needs better drone defenses.