As Cuba’s power grid collapses, Beijing and Moscow are exploiting Havana’s desperation to expand intelligence operations within striking distance of U.S. military installations.

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This memorandum consolidates approximately ten separate outdated memoranda that were inadequate to address the current, complex unmanned aircraft system (UAS) threat environment. The new guidance ...

Evelyn Farkas from Munich: The Future of NATO, Ukraine’s Endgame, and the China Challenge ...

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In 1895, Secretary of State Richard Olney sent a diplomatic note to Britain that contained one of the most remarkable sentences in American foreign policy history: "The United States is practically ...

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 ...