The Threat Landscape
Global Instability Has Widespread Consequences
When instability takes hold in critical regions, the economic impacts are widespread, from the cost of fuel and freight to the availability of components and the safety of personnel operating abroad.
Physical Risk
Physical risks span energy price volatility, freight disruption, component availability, and the safety of personnel operating in unstable regions. Supply chains organizations spent years optimizing suddenly reveal vulnerabilities.
Cyber Risk
Periods of geopolitical instability have historically triggered a surge in state-sponsored cyberattacks against Western targets. U.S. financial institutions, energy and water infrastructure, defense contractors, logistics providers and healthcare systems all face increased risk.
"Organizations must factor in the latest geopolitical considerations when making real-time decisions about supply chains, travel routes and cyber posture."
The organizations that weather volatile periods best can effectively absorb a disruption and grow stronger and more resilient. From our perspective, dynamic security should be approached as a differentiation strategy not a cost center.
Do you know where your greatest exposure is right now?
In addition to our in-house experts, the Firm’s team includes a deep bench of advisors who have held senior national security, intelligence and military positions in the U.S. government. We’ve operated under this kind of pressure before and understand how governments and adversaries behave in periods of sustained instability. We are actively helping organizations think through what these conditions mean.
Can we help you do the same?
Senior Advisors
Advisors Specializing in the Iran Conflict
35-year Federal career, earning national recognition for strategic leadership, leading CIA’s Middle East Operations, and serving five times as Chief of Station across the Middle East and Europe.
Senior CIA executive with oversight of enterprise-level intelligence programs, often under direct Presidential oversight, engaging the highest levels of U.S. and foreign policy, military and business leadership.
Expert in intelligence diplomacy advancing U.S. policy objectives, with enduring regional expertise, proficiency in Arabic and French, and a record of identifying and countering threats across complex, unstable environments.
30 years with CIA including serving 18 years abroad and Chief of Station in five countries.
Three Senior Intelligence Service positions at CIA HQS included Chief of the Near East and South Asia Division responsible for directing all CIA intelligence operations across the Middle East and South Asia and White House-directed covert action programs, Deputy Chief of Special Activities Division (worldwide paramilitary operations) and Chief of Counterterrorist Operations.
Retired CIA with more than 33 years of government service. As Deputy National Intelligence Manager for Iran, helped steer U.S. intelligence posture on sanctions, negotiations and regional dynamics directly shaping U.S. policy toward Tehran.
Led major programs on the Near East and counterterrorism through periods of intense conflict and policy crisis, supporting the President, senior policymakers and Congress.
As CIA Associate Deputy Director for Analysis, oversaw global intelligence programs spanning the Near East, emerging technology and cyber, with expertise in the threat environment across each domain.
40-year U.S. Army career, including five combat tours to Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait, earning the Silver Star Medal for gallantry in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Deputy Commander of U.S. European Command, leading all U.S. military multi-domain operations in Europe in support of NATO and U.S. national defense strategy.
Expert in Army and Joint programs, U.S. and NATO security strategy, and large-scale operational planning across military, federal and commercial sectors.
Retired Air Force with 30 years of service, including executive leadership roles spanning NATO military planning, nuclear deterrence and defense innovation.
Five+ years deployed in the Middle East and Pakistan; led interservice coalition operations and intelligence in the historic campaign to defeat ISIL as Commander of the 9th Expeditionary Task Force-Levant; led operations, intelligence and nuclear mission for the NATO Alliance; Deputy Chairman of the NATO Military Committee and principal advisor to the NATO Secretary General.
Managed the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction portfolio for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, with expertise in nuclear deterrence and regional security strategy.
Served as the 77th Secretary of the Navy, orchestrating the first-ever Tri-Service Maritime Strategy aligning the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard with the National Defense Strategy.
Produced the first-ever U.S. Navy Strategy for the Arctic, establishing the framework for U.S. naval posture in one of today’s most contested and strategically critical theaters.
Served as the 33rd U.S. Ambassador to Norway where he focused on defense. A retired U.S. Navy Rear Admiral and a Naval aviator who flew P-3 Orions tracking adversary submarines in the Pacific and Arctic, with operational experience spanning carrier operations and NATO’s Striking Force 6th Fleet. Also currently served as a Fellow of the NATO School, Oberammergau, Germany.
Former Acting Director of the Office of Iranian Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.
Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs from January–September 2021.
Spent most of his career working in the Middle East, and particularly on the Arabian Peninsula.
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