Early on the morning of October 7, 2023, thousands of Hamas fighters broke through Israel’s southern border in a violent raid ...

Andrew Makridis, former COO of the CIA, offers new policy ideas on emerging technologies and national security for the U.S.

Roule is a geopolitical and energy consultant who served for 34 years in the Central Intelligence Agency, managing numerous programs relating to Iran and the Middle East. As NIM-I at ODNI, he was ...

Chair of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation (CCTI) at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies Dr. Samantha Ravich is the chair of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at the ...

Dr. Michael Vickers served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence from 2011 to 2015, the Chief Executive Officer of the Defense Intelligence Enterprise, an $80 billion, 180,000-person, ...

Prior to his appointment as a senior fellow at the Belfer Center, Mr. Rolf Mowatt-Larssen served over three years as the Director of Intelligence and Counterintelligence at the U.S. Department of ...

Rick Ledgett served as the Deputy Director of the National Security Agency from January 2014 until his retirement in April 2017, culminating a nearly 40-year career in cryptology at NSA and in the U.S ...

Soo Kim is a former CIA intelligence analyst and linguist, specializing in East Asia, propaganda, and leadership studies. She was recently a fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

Steven R. Ward is a former member of CIA’s senior analytic service who specializes in Middle East security affairs. He also served as Deputy National Intelligence Officer for the Near East on the ...

Sigurd Neubauer is a senior analyst at SOS International, a U.S. defense consultancy, and a Non-Resident Fellow at Gulf International Forum. His expertise includes U.S. policy towards the Arabian ...

One year after the Hamas massacre, there are lessons for intelligence agencies in how Israel's government missed (or ignored) the warnings.

Larry Hanauer is the Deputy Director of the Global Dynamics and Intelligence Division at the Institute for Defense Analyses ...