The White Lady. The Story of Two Key British Secret Service Networks Behind German LinesBy: Helen Fry/ Yale University PressReviewed by: Tim Willasey-WilseyThe Reviewer: Tim Willasey-Wilsey CMG is a ...

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Keti Korkiya is a research analyst in the Russia Program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. OPINION — The fate of ...

For about a week we experienced significant controversy over the first military attack on alleged narco-trafficker small boats off the coast of Venezuela (and later Ecuador). The controversy began ...

Reports came out last week that claim the Chairman of Joint Staff, General Dan Caine, is preparing a new unified command plan (UCP) that will reorganize and consolidate the regional combatant commands ...

Each of my eight trips to Ukraine since retiring from the CIA in the summer of 2023 has been filled with unique challenges. Each time I’ve witnessed first-hand the sacrifices the Ukrainians are making ...

John Burer is the founder and CEO of the American Center for Manufacturing & Innovation (ACMI). Burer has twenty years of ...

The move to label Brotherhood affiliates as terrorist groups could reshape regional alliances, financial networks, and U.S.

We are currently witnessing a mobilization of technical ambition reminiscent of the Manhattan Project, a realization that data and compute are the new defining elements of national power. I am deeply ...

China uses a layered approach in the South China Sea that blends military power, paramilitary forces, legal instruments, and political signaling. Beijing has asserted “historic rights” over most of ...

The fate of territory in eastern Ukraine remains the “most difficult” sticking point in the ongoing peace talks, President Volodymyr Zelensky acknowledged over the weekend as U.S. negotiators held ...

Mark Munsell leads a non-profit effort to expand the geospatial technology ecosystem in St. Louis, MO. Previously, he held jobs as the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s Chief Artificial ...