Threats

THAAD arrives in Korea; How Iraq got off the travel-ban list; Has the F-35 already seen combat?; US SOF is still hunting Kony; and just a bit more...

  • Ben Watson, Bradley Peniston and Kevin Baron
Threats

The Cyberwar Information Gap

Unlike a conventional military strike, state-on-state cyberattacks can go unreported for years.

  • Kaveh Waddell, The Atlantic
Threats

Iraq Agreed to Share More Information With US to Avoid Travel Ban

Other countries will have a harder time pulling the same trick.

  • Patrick Tucker
Ideas

What ISIS Will Do After Mosul Falls

They have options, write two terrorism scholars.

  • Colin P. Clarke and Amarnath Amarasingam, The Atlantic
Defense Systems

Navy IT security deal protects high-risk routers, chips & switches

A multiple award Navy contract seeks to harden high-risk IT areas using intrusion detection systems and encryptors.

  • Katherine Owens, Defense Systems
Threats

4 North Korean launches; Waves of car bombs in Mosul; China crashes US airpower conference; America can’t agree on its main threat; and just a bit more...

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Ideas

Killing Free Trade Will Rob the World of a Highly Effective Deterrent to War

Trade agreements are rarely about economics alone.

  • Dan Kopf, Quartz
Science & Tech

The Government’s Intelligence Wiki Might Be a Lockbox for Russian-Hacking Secrets

Analysts reportedly tucked classified information about Russian election meddling inside Intellipedia for safekeeping.

  • Kaveh Waddell, The Atlantic
Ideas

America Is Facing a Dangerous Enemy. We Just Can’t Agree Who It Is

Our ideological adversary is powerful, authoritarian, and spreading. And it is completely different depending on which government officials you’re talking to.

  • Uri Friedman, The Atlantic
Business

Chinese Military Officers Crash US Air Force Conference in Florida

The three officers, armed with cameras, took a stroll around an exhibit hall of new weapons and technology.

  • Marcus Weisgerber
Ideas

Russia Has Deployed a Treaty-Violating Missile. Here’s What the US Should Do About It

Hint: it’s not what we would have done in the 1950s, ’60s, ’70s, or ’80s.

  • Michael Krepon
Defense Systems

Soldiers receive new ground control tech for drones

A next-generation ground control station can operate multiple drones across different domains.

  • Kris Osborn, Defense Systems
Defense Systems

Army, Textron map the future of drone control technology

A next-generation ground control station can operate multiple drones across different domains.

  • Kris Osborn, Defense Systems
Defense Systems

ISR payload demo begins on Global Hawk

Northrop Grumman begins flight tests of the MR-177 imaging sensor on the endurance UAV.

  • George Leopold, Defense Systems
Ideas

A US-Based Army Can’t Get to the Fight Fast Enough

We need to rebuild our forward-based troop strength, get serious about strategic lift, and more.

  • Carter Ham
Threats

Escalation in Yemen; Drone strikes soar under Trump; US, Russia, Hezbollah team up; USAF eyes laser-armed C-130; And just a bit more...

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Science & Tech

Air Force Wants to Test a Laser on an Attack Plane Within A Year

But the U.S. Special Operations Command still needs money for the test and policymakers need to figure out the rules of engagement.

  • Marcus Weisgerber
Science & Tech

DARPA Tests Dirty-Bomb Hunting Ambulances

You may not have known it, but some D.C. ambulances were searching for radiation while they drove.

  • Mohana Ravindranath
Science & Tech

Pentagon Advisers Want Cyber ‘Tiger Teams,’ More Authorities for Cyber Command

Pentagon advisers: We need more infrastructure cybersecurity. Congress: We want more election-hacking security.

  • Patrick Tucker
Threats

What Putin Is Up To

And why he may have overplayed his hand.

  • Strobe Talbott and Jessica Brandt, The Atlantic
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