Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act was originally enacted as a post 9/11surveillance program that ...

After years of observing from afar, the U.S. is now confronting the economic and operational realities of drone warfare in ...

Karl Wagner spent 29 years at the CIA, serving in his last position as chief of Counter-Intelligence Operations, where he advocated for inclusion of resiliency efforts into CIA’s Insider Threat ...

The conflict in Iran is not solely the result of 47 years of unresolved tension. That framing misses a more consequential story: what is unfolding is a significant disruption to China's grand strategy ...

Liesl Jordan has had a 27-year career spanning national security, multilateral organisations, and the private sector. Her career has been characterised by international postings, including with the ...

Jon Rosenwasser previously served as the Intelligence Community Chief Financial Officer and as the Budget and Policy Director to the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. He is the founder and ...

Jon Rosenwasser previously served as the Intelligence Community Chief Financial Officer and as the Budget and Policy Director ...

Alvin Wang Graylin is a Digital Fellow at Stanford’s Human-Centered AI Institute, Senior Fellow at the Asia Society Policy ...

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Strategic intelligence, usually perceived as intelligence supporting the formulation of strategy, has always had limited influence over national security decisions. Leaders in democratic countries, ...