Former U.S. intelligence officials emphasized that Korea can kill two birds with one stone – enhancing its international status and strengthening deterrence – by expanding cooperation with NATO.

Glenn Corn provides a ground-level perspective of the current situation in Ukraine and discuss why it's important for the U.S. to support the Ukraine's fight against the Russian invasion.

Dispatches from Kyiv: Suzanne Kelly, CEO & Publisher, The Cipher Brief, interviews Glenn Corn, Former Senior CIA Executive, from the 2024 Kyiv Economic & Security Forum.

Podcast host Ryan Fugit interviews Glenn Corn, a former Senior CIA Executive. In this episode, they delve into Glenn’s experience at the Agency, including close calls, lessons learned, his command of foreign languages (Glenn’s a fluent Russian speaker,) and where the Agency is going today.

Last week’s retaliatory strikes by the U.S. for the killing of three American military service members in Jordan last weekend, lasted only 30 minutes in what the Pentagon says is the beginning of a multi-tiered response.

"[It was a] great honor to join General David Petraeus and the team from the Cipher Brief for a highly informative and moving visit to Kyiv to meet with our Ukrainian partners and attend the 'YES' conference. Seeing the courage and resolve of the Ukrainian people was inspiring and a great reminder of the importance of fighting for freedom and liberty even when facing challenging odds."

In July of this year, less than 90 days after Turkiye’s recent Presidential elections, the Turkish Government recently took three important steps that were welcomed by Ankara’s allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) but clearly damaged Turkish President Tayyip Recep Erdogan’s relationship his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. First, on the eve of the NATO summit in Vilnius, Erdogan hosted Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelinskyy in Türkiye and publicly announced his country’s support for Ukraine’s NATO membership.

"Seeing the courage and resolve of the Ukrainian people was inspiring and a great reminder of the importance of fighting for freedom and liberty even when facing challenging odds."

Analysts from Washington to Beijing are trying to make sense of what happened in Russia over the weekend. And there are many questions lingering. For starters, why did Yevgeny Prigozhin, owner of the Wagner private military company, start an armed insurrection, march within 125 miles of Moscow and then suddenly command his mercenaries to turn around? How did Belarusian dictator Aleksandr Lukashenko get in the middle of the dispute between Prigozhin and Russian President Vladimir Putin, and will he really provide shelter to Prigozhin as part of the truce he reportedly arranged?

It was clear going into Turkey’s recent presidential elections that many in Washington were anticipating a victory for the Turkish opposition candidate, Kemal Kilicdaroglu of the Republican People’s Party (CHP). Those rooting for Kilicdaroglu were let down when President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan prevailed, despite a struggling economy and the devastation caused by the February earthquake in southeast Turkey, convincing the electorate to give him one more term in office...