Defense One

The Magpies and the Cuckoos: A Disinformation Fable

The magpies have a complex and vigorous society. What happens when two conniving cuckoos come to town?

After Trump Weighs In on JEDI, GOP Lawmakers Say Keep Out of It

Four members of the House Armed Services Committee asked Trump to let the Pentagon award its Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract without delay.

New US jammer downs alleged Iranian drone in Gulf; What next for US-Turkey?; New CNO tapped; ‘Resistance ops’ in the Baltics; And a bit more.

The U.S. Navy downed a flying object in the Hormuz Strait Thursday, an object that today Iranian officials insist was not in fact Iranian, despite President Donald Trump’s allegations at an …

Don’t Expand the Covert Agents Secrecy Law

A House measure would put not only the press but the intelligence community at risk.

Did the US Invent Lyme Disease in the 1960s? The House Aims to Find Out

A decades-old conspiracy theory says Cold War bioweapons research is sickening tens of thousands of Americans a year.

Trump Is Running Out of Time to Denuclearize North Korea

So what does he have time to accomplish?

Budget deadline nears; USN seeks drone warships; Russia to 3D-print aircraft parts; and more…

As the days tick down to Congress’ August recess, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Thursday morning that talks between the Trump administration and the Republican-controlled Senate and …

Where Can the US and Turkey Go From Here?

The battle to save the relationship will not be an easy one, but we have not lost it just yet.

More troops to border, Saudi Arabia; Turkey loses F-35; Ebola declared ‘global emergency’; FaceApp, a natsec threat?; And a bit more.

The U.S. is sending thousands more troops to the U.S.-Mexico border as well as to…Saudi Arabia? Some 500 troops are slated to deploy to Prince Sultan Air Base, two U.S. two defense officials tell …