China’s Epic Campaign to Steal America’s SecretsBy David R. Shedd and Andrew Badger / HarperReviewed by: Nick FishwickThe Reviewer Nick Fishwick CMG retired after nearly thirty years in the British ...

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Reports from Moscow suggest that U.S. representatives Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff are “optimistic” about the prospect of results from their discussion with Kremlin officials this week. But after ...

Brian Finlay is the President and CEO at Stimson. His areas of expertise include nonproliferation, transnational crime, counter-trafficking, supply chain security and private sector engagement. Finlay ...

Mandy Smithberger is the Director of the CDI Straus Military Reform Project at the Project on Government Oversight. She is a former national security policy adviser to U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif ...

South Korea’s Korea Institute for Defense Analysis recently publicly stated that we underestimated North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. According to their analysis, North Korea has between 127 and ...

Dr. Kenneth Dekleva is a former physician-diplomat with the U.S. State Dept., Professor of Psychiatry, UT Southwestern Medical Center and the founder and CEO of Blackwood Advisory Solutions LLC. The ...

Amit A. Pandya is a non-resident Fellow at the Stimson Center. He is an international lawyer whose research interests include social, environmental and economic trends in the Arab world and South Asia ...

Dr. Raymond Gilpin is the Dean of Academic Affairs for the Africa Center for Strategic Studies at National Defense University. He was formerly the director of the Center for Sustainable Economies at ...

Dr. Kimberly Kagan is the founder and president of the Institute for the Study of War (ISW). She is a military historian who has taught at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Yale, Georgetown, ...

Brigadier General (Ret.) JB Burton is the Strategic Account Executive/Chief Strategist for Leidos. His Army career included leadership of infantry and combined arms formations at every echelon, in ...