The Dam That Sparked a South American Spying Scandal
Stretching for 5 miles across the Paraná River between Paraguay and Brazil, Itaipu is one of the world’s most powerful hydroelectric dams. In 2016 alone, the binational facility, which has ...
Tag: Strategic Intelligence
The Perils of Denigrating U.S. Intelligence
American presidents have long criticized intelligence assessments. Lyndon B. Johnson derided pessimistic analysis of the Vietnam War. Bill Clinton challenged reports that Iraq wanted to rebuild weapons of mass destruction. ...
Intelligence Window Might Have Been a Factor in Timing of Israeli Attack on Iran
When Israel attacked Hezbollah last September with exploding beepers and a broad assassination campaign, one thing that dictated the timing was Israel’s concern that the group was about to discover ...
Putin Is a Gambler, not a Grand Master
After centuries of trying to catch up with the West, Russia is now using its influence to reshape the politics of Western countries and erode their foundational commitment to the ...
Trump’s Attacks on Harvard Cause Alarm in China
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The highlights this week: Chinese students are caught up in Harvard University’s tussle with the Trump administration, China’s defense minister is skipping the premier Asian ...
This Technology Could Be a Game-Changer for North Korea
In December 2023, I noticed something peculiar on satellite imagery of North Korea’s Pyongyang Sunan International Airport: An old Soviet cargo aircraft was being modified with structural pylons above its ...
How Generations of Experts Built U.S. Power
The Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz famously wrote that war is a “mere continuation of policy by other means,” but he did not mean that war is merely politics. ...
