South Korea’s Korea Institute for Defense Analysis recently publicly stated that we underestimated North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. According to their analysis, North Korea has between 127 and ...

Amit A. Pandya is a non-resident Fellow at the Stimson Center. He is an international lawyer whose research interests include social, environmental and economic trends in the Arab world and South Asia ...

Dr. Raymond Gilpin is the Dean of Academic Affairs for the Africa Center for Strategic Studies at National Defense University. He was formerly the director of the Center for Sustainable Economies at ...

Lieutenant General George Flynn, USMC (Ret.) spent 38 years serving in the U.S. Marine Corps. Since retirement, he has consulted with universities, think tanks, and private organizations. Currently ...

The FBI’s Groundbreaking Pursuit of China’s Most Prolific Spy Family By James E. GaylordReviewed by: Jean-Thomas NicoleThe Reviewer —Jean-Thomas Nicole is a Policy Advisor with Public Safety Canada.

As we’ve said from the beginning, and in every statement, these highly effective strikes are specifically intended to be ‘lethal, kinetic strikes.’ The declared intent is to stop lethal drugs, destroy ...

Russian intelligence agencies have been executing defectors, dissidents, and rivals for more than a century. Under Putin, the ...

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Norman Roule is a geopolitical and energy consultant who served for 34 years in the Central Intelligence Agency, managing numerous programs relating to Iran and the Middle East. He also served as the ...

Cash is the Executive Director of The Steady State. He also served as former Senior Advisor the Under Secretary for Intelligence at DHS and as Chief Counsel and Staff Director (Minority) to a ...

Tim Willasey-Wilsey served for over 27 years in the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office and is now Visiting Professor of War Studies at King's College, London. His book “The Spy and the Devil” ...

Carmen Medina is a former CIA Deputy Director of Intelligence. A 32-year veteran of the Intelligence Community, she is also the author of Rebels at Work: A Handbook for Leading Change from Within.