GLOUCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS — Studies of the role of intelligence operations inevitably have a Rashomon-like quality, with the same events yielding various, sometimes contradictory, interpretations.

ATLANTA — The US intelligence community’s annual threat assessment for 2023 certainly cannot be faulted for having a narrow focus or Pollyanna perspective.

ATLANTA — Voltaire famously warned that anyone who can make people believe absurdities can make them commit atrocities. Two and a half centuries later, an insurrection at the US Capitol by those who believed Donald Trump’s lies confirmed Voltaire’s point.

ATLANTA  —  Donald Trump and his Republican Party minions have presented a dog’s breakfast of explanations, evasions, accusations and lies about the classified documents, including top-secret files, that federal agents reclaimed from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago basement this mon

ATLANTA — Last month, when US National Intelligence Director Avril Haines presented the intelligence community’s annual threat assessment to the Senate Intelligence Committee, committee members praised her for the “excellent work” leading up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and f

ATLANTA  —  With US and Chinese warships increasingly playing chicken, and China transforming atolls and outcroppings into militarised artificial islands, the South China Sea presents a striking picture of Sino-American strategic competition.

ATLANTA — Nearly three years after his failed bromance with Donald Trump, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is once again angling for US attention.

ATLANTA — With vaccinations raising hopes for an end to the pandemic, predictions about the post-COVID world are multiplying fast.

ATLANTA — Tradition has it that when less-than-beloved CIA station chiefs are transferred from their posts abroad, their long-suffering staff celebrate with a wheels-up party.