Zachery Tyson Brown

Former Defense Secretary and retired General James Mattis is said to have told Marines in Iraq that the most important six inches on the battlefield...

“I’d rather be a bookie than a goddamned poet. ” - Sherman Kent, 1964 When everything is intelligence, nothing is intelligence.

Red Star Over the Pacific: China’s Rise and the Challenge for U. S.

“If influence cannot be our goal, what should it be? ” - Sherman Kent The United States Intelligence Community is charged to help national leaders...

In the summer of 2010, turbid clouds of ochre-colored smoke wafted low across the iron-grey Muscovite sky, obscuring the Kremlin in a miasmic haze so...

November 11th marked the centennial of the end of the First World War. As usual, the anniversary of Armistice Day prompted many comparisons between...

“A Russian is self-assured just because he knows nothing and does not want to know anything, since he does not believe that anything can be known. ” -...