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I had an unpleasant episode with Aldrich Ames which taught me some life lessons. I was a mid-level CIA analyst working Caucasus and Central Asian issues in the 1990s. My job responsibilities then ...

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Alasdair Gordon served for 32 years in national security with the Australian Government. He has had extensive experience in South East and North Asia, and in the South Pacific. He has also held senior ...

Anders Åslund is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. His area of research is the economic policy of Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, as well ...

Russia is filling battlefield gaps with coerced migrants and foreign recruits, exporting long-term security risks to some of the world’s most fragile regions.

Bronwyn E. Bruton is the Deputy Director of the Council's Africa Center. Previously, Bruton held an International Affairs Fellowship at the Council on Foreign Relations and the Center for Strategic ...

Marc Polymeropoulos served 26 years in the CIA before retiring from the Senior Intelligence Service in June 2019. His positions included field and headquarters operational assignments covering the ...

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” ...

Vice Admiral Kevin Donegan, USN (ret), served as Commander of the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet and Commander of the 32 Nation Combined Maritime Forces in the Middle East. In those roles he led teams that ...

Rob Dannenberg served as chief of operations for CIA's Counterterrorism Center, chief of the Central Eurasia Division and chief of the Information Operations Center before retiring from the Agency. He ...