When Steve Blank and I sat down over coffee a decade ago and realized that the customer discovery process in Lean was identical to what I'd been doing with the Rapid Equipping Force in Afghanistan, ...
With its ballistic missile arsenal depleted, Tehran is leaning on cheap drones, Russian intelligence support, and the hard economics of attrition to test U.S. and allied defenses.
I’m always reluctant to comment on current events, as it feels a bit like being an armchair quarterback, but I have been asked about different parts of the ongoing conflict as people are trying to get ...
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Rudolph Atallah is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Africa Center. Before retiring in 2009 with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel after twenty-one years of service in the US Air ...
Frank Montoya Jr. is a retired FBI special agent and senior executive with extensive experience in counterintelligence matters. In addition to running FBI field offices in Honolulu and Seattle in the ...
Hamish de Bretton-Gordon is the Managing Director of Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) at Avon Protection Systems, the recognized global market leader in respiratory protection ...
The Cormorant HuntBy David Idov / ScribnerReviewed by: Anne and Jay GrunerThe Reviewers: Anne and Jay Gruner are retired CIA senior executives who served in the Directorate of Intelligence and ...
As the war between Iran and America (plus Israel) enters its second week, a close examination of its asymmetric and higher-order effects is more critical than ever. Competing media narratives have ...
Dr. Kenneth Dekleva is a former physician-diplomat with the U.S. State Dept., Professor of Psychiatry, UT Southwestern Medical Center and the founder and CEO of Blackwood Advisory Solutions LLC. The ...
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A momentous event is happening that is receiving little fanfare in the U.S. but could have major long-term implications for regional stability, save lives, and change geopolitics and trade in the ...