How China is Reweaving Hollywood’s Red Carpet
REVIEW — Much of the world is correctly focused these days on whether the Russian army is about to invade Ukraine and possibly seize Kyiv....
Brian Fitzgerald
- Feb 1
What Does Intelligence Look Like in the Future?
REVIEW – In Spies, Lies, and Algorithms, Amy Zegart offers a polished primer on US intelligence for the uninitiated while also posing...
James Lawler
- Jan 12
The Fascination of the Abomination
REVIEW – “The horror! The horror!” murmured Joseph Conrad’s Kurtz as he dies in The Heart of Darkness. Those words and their...
Bill Harlow
- Jan 4
A CIA Story of Disruption and Overt Success
REVIEW – There are a couple of surefire ways to annoy U.S. officials who worked on counterterrorism issues in the years shortly after...
Terence Check
- Nov 29, 2021
Exploring China’s High-Tech Penal Colony
REVIEW — I grew up in a household of second-generation Hungarian immigrants, and though I was born in the 1990s, and out of the immediate...
Daniel Hoffman
- Oct 19, 2021
A Deeper Understanding of Cyberspace in Peace and War
REVIEW — Cyberspace in Peace and War by Martin C. Libicki, delivers a comprehensive review and analysis of the threats in cyberspace as...
Christopher Gallup
- Aug 31, 2021
Does the World Really End This Way?
REVIEW – You may or may not know that zero-day exploits are used to take over, control, or destroy a target system. In her book, This is...
W. Renn Gade
- Jun 20, 2021
Reviewing National Security Law for the Coming AI Revolution
REVIEW — We live in the age of Dreadnoughts. No, not of battleships, but of astounding leaps of technology, most particularly, Artificial...
George M. Moore
- Apr 23, 2019
Breaking the Code on Bytes, Bombs and Spies
REVIEW — This collection published by the Brookings Institution Press is a very readable collection of papers which resulted from a...