In today’s report we’ve got a number of stories related to the Ukraine war, President Biden’s ongoing visit to Poland and Russian activities in the area.  We’re following news that Russia conducted a failed ICBM test during the time that Biden was in Ukraine.  This comes as China’s top diplomat Wang Yi is in Russia for a visit where he underscored that relations between Russian and China are ‘rock solid’, a sentiment echoed by Vladimir Putin who added that Chinese President Xi Jinping will...

It's another very big national security news day.  Here are just a few of the headlines from today's complete Open Source Report: Blinken Postpones China Trip as Chinese Spy Balloon Loiters in US Airspace Ukrainian Intelligence Official Says Putin Orders Military to Launch Major New Offensive China’s Military Publicly Reveals Capabilities of Hypersonic Anti-Ship Missiles for the First Time. We're also continuing our conversation with General (Ret) John Allen  today in our overtime...

We’re continuing our conversation this week in our overtime segment with the newest Cipher Brief Expert retired General John Allen.  Today he shares his views on the relationship between Chinese President Xi Jingping and Russian President Vladimir Putin.    

In this special episode we're continuing our conversation with Cipher Brief Expert General (Ret) John Allen.   "We should be very, very concerned about this conflict because if Russia is successful,  it will give in many respects, the leading edge of accomplishment to this redefinition of the global world order. That is, for all intents and purposes, an axis between Beijing and Moscow." General John Allen 

Welcome to a special episode of the Open Source Report with two overtime segments. First we're discussing the explosions in Iran.  For that we talk with Cipher Brief Expert and former National Intelligence Manager for Iran (NIM-I) at ODNI Norm Roule.  Norm breaks down the events and walks us thru the likely thinking on both sides of the issue, and what he says must happen now. Then, we hear, for the first time from The Cipher Brief's newest Expert, General (Ret) John Allen.  General Allen...