[2] The articles in Moscow Defense Brief were written by both full-time analysts at CAST and a number of independent experts.

External experts who wrote for Moscow Defense Briefincluded: Fyodor Lukyanov [ru], editor-in-chief of Russia in Global Affairs; Aleksey Nikolsky, Defense and politics reporter for Vedomosti; Alexandr Stukalin deputy editor-in-chief of Kommersant; Andrei Kortunov [ru], director general of the Russian International Affairs Council; and Roger McDermott, senior fellow at the Jamestown Foundation.

[8] As of 2015 the editor-in-chief of Moscow Defense Brief was Mikhail Barabanov and the project director was Andrey Frolov.

[8] Subscribers received not only a print edition of each new issue, but they were also given online access to every previously published Moscow Defense Brief through the Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies website since 2004.

Moscow Defense Brief published the yearly figures for Russia's arms sales, which were the most comprehensive source of Russian foreign military-technical cooperation data.