Dennis T. Cosgrove

What decades in the field taught me about trust, judgment, and the risks of engagement The first Russians I ever met were supposed to be my...

"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

When I first entered the Strait of Hormuz as a young third officer aboard a supertanker, I learned something no strategic briefing can fully convey:...

In the late 1990s, I would take the Moscow metro to Lubyanka Square and walk into the headquarters of Russia’s Federal Security Service—sometimes...

Now I shall go far and far into the North, playing the Great Game…” When Kim by Rudyard Kipling was published in 1901, it described a shadow contest...