View this email in your browser Monday February 11, 2019 Newsletter Content  FACEBOOK | TWITTER | LINKEDIN  www.thecipherbrief.com Only 41 days until national security experts from the public and private sectors meet face-to-face at what former CIA and NSA Director Michael Hayden calls ‘a Live Action version of what you get on The Cipher Brief every day.’ Will you have a seat at the table in Sea Island, GA, at the country’s most innovate new, national security conference? China: Are the U.S. and China Still Destined for War? A lot has happened since China expert and Harvard Professor Graham Allison’s best-selling book on China, Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides Trap was published in 2017. If one needed any further evidence of ruling and rising powers, they could have found it in last month’s worldwide threat report, delivered to the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence by the Director of National Intelligence.   Dan Coats and the leaders of the IC made clear that China is - hands down - the largest national security threat to the United States. The Cipher Brief talked with Allison, who recently returned from China.  It might not make you feel better to hear that Allison says the U.S. and China are right on script… ICYMI: SOF Leader’s Advice for Reaching Full Potential The Cipher Brief’s new Friday column, ‘Cipher Select’ talks with retired Command Sergeant Major (CSM) Rob Lively, who spent 28 years in the U.S. Army, as part of a special operations unit based at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina. In his first interview since retirement, Lively talks with Cipher Select Executive Editor Brad Christian who talked with Lively about current issues facing the SOF community and America's capacity for reaching full potential, whether in the military, private sector or in the increasingly-important mission for Americans to be well briefed.  Get the Cipher Select brief here… Intel Brief: The Daunting Prospects of a Growing Sino-Russian Entente The 40th anniversary of Iran’s Islamic Revolution finds the country in a stronger regional position than at any time since the 1979 revolution. The Trump Administration’s re-imposition of U.S. sanctions has failed to isolate Iran internationally, but it has damaged Tehran’s economy.   Iran’s continued compliance with and adherence to the multilateral 2015 nuclear agreement has divided the U.S. from its European allies.   After four decades of governing, the regime is stable, although periodic unrest signals that the popularity of the regime’s hardliners is fading. Get today’s Intel Brief, powered by The Soufan Center…