Strategic Intelligence

An espionage thriller presents an alternative to former U.S. President Barack Obama’s failed policy toward the Assad regime.

Bill Burns, a veteran diplomat, will helm the spy agency in an era of renewed great-power competition.

Agencies need to adapt to an information-heavy era.

The British novelist didn’t just write about the world of intelligence. He changed it forever.

Open-source investigations enable officials and lawmakers to discuss Russian skullduggery without exposing sources and methods of U.S. intelligence

Whatever’s causing it, all signs point to Moscow.

If the U.S. government wants to win the information wars, Cold War-era tactics won’t cut it anymore.

Americans are already less safe because of growing distrust in their intelligence. Dangers will multiply without a change in political leadership.

An assessment by the House Intelligence Committee says the United States will be hard-pressed to meet China’s multidimensional challenge if it stays in a counterterrorism mindset.

New Delhi has failed to learn from its mistakes.

British politicians and spies are continuing a tradition of sticking their heads in the sand against inconvenient attacks.

The U.K., in contrast to the United States, never sought to establish how much Russia may have interfered with the 2016 Brexit referendum, a parliamentary committee concluded.

John Ratcliffe, a Trump loyalist without intelligence experience, sees his job as helping the president and undermining the intelligence community.

There is a long, and secret, history of countries—including Britain and the United States—forcing companies to protect national security by helping them eavesdrop in bulk.

Unit 29155 of the GRU is behind plenty of Russia’s high-profile misadventures abroad—and now, apparently, the bounties on U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

A new video tries to make spying for the United States attractive for today’s youth—but cuts some corners along the way.

Lawmakers want answers from the nation’s top spy about the impact of a hasty U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Ratcliffe gets grilled over his role in misrepresenting the facts during the U.S. president’s impeachment.

Purging seasoned professionals and politicizing the work of analysts and agents endanger American lives.