Chris Miller argues Vladimir Putin is following Khrushchev's "surface tension" strategy in Ukraine, bringing Washington and Moscow "eyeball to eyeball" again. But so far, the West is doing the blinking.

CIA spymaster Jack Devine sets the record straight about the agency's controversial role during the Cold War in his new memoir, Good Hunting.

As the world finds itself concerned with Russian missiles once again, Chris Miller revisits SNIE 85-3-62, the crucial--and wrong--U.S. intelligence estimate that Nikita Khrushchev would not place nuclear missiles on Cuba.

Following Edward Snowden's NSA disclosures and renewed clashes between Washington and Berlin over espionage, Chris Miller discusses Cold War lessons in counterintelligence still applicable to national security challenges today.

The dominant narrative of the Cold War focuses on the conflict in the West between Washington and Moscow, forgetting about the lessons learned in the "hot" war in Southeast Asia. These lessons are worth another look, argues Chris Miller.