The former commander and CIA director says Ukraine's innovative tactics and weaponry surpass what the U.S. is doing.

The recent capture of Sinaloa Cartel leaders is a major symbolic victory. But will it stem the flow of fentanyl into the U.S.

Ukrainian soldiers and commanders, international bankers, and top U.S. and European officials were among the speakers at the ...

The coordinated attack targeted members of the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah, and bore the hallmarks of an Israeli ...

Mike Vigil, former DEA Chief of International Operations, discusses the arrest of Sinaloa Cartel leaders and how to stop the fentanyl crisis.

The Pentagon desperately needs rare earth materials -- and the U.S. doesn't want to keep buying them from China.

The Reviewer — Tim Willasey-Wilsey is a Visiting Professor and King’s College London and a former senior British diplomat. He ...

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Former Director of Strategic Operational Planning, National Counterterrorism Center. Mike LeFever recently retired from the United States Navy after serving for over 38 years, finishing his military ...

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 ...

Glenn Corn is a former Senior Executive in the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) who worked for 34 years in the U.S. Intelligence, Defense, and Foreign Affairs communities. He spent over 17 years ...

The Reviewer — Calder Walton is Assistant Director, Applied History Project, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. He is the author of Spies: The Epic Intelligence War Between East and West and ...