The vulnerability of the nation's power and communication grids was laid bare by a series of intrusions that the military's highest leaders were told they could neither detect nor attribute.
By Marcus Boone ·
While the CIA mapped terrorist networks in South Asia, a 1995 security assessment began moving the burden of national defense onto private corporations under the guise of technical risk management.
By Marcus Boone ·
Decades before the first major blackout, a Navy-run school was already drawing lines around the digital arteries that keep the American people alive.
By Marcus Boone ·
Witness names remained secret while the Air Force tracked radar responses from Macao to Bermuda to determine if unidentified flying objects threatened national security.
By June Hargrove ·
National security policymakers were told in 2000 that the Kyoto Protocol would likely fail, leaving the world to face a slow-motion crisis involving greenhouse gas emissions and instability.
By Constance Bell ·
Intelligence warnings blinked red and a money trail led to California, yet American officials failed to synthesize the signals before the Planes Operation.
By Harlan Pryce ·
Operational specifics remain shielded while the state pivots to persistent engagement to disrupt ghosts in the machine in St. Petersburg and Pyongyang.
By Harlan Pryce ·