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US Army Wants to Model COVID's Impact on Combatant Commands

The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research has sent an urgent request for COVID-19 modeling and prediction analyses services.

  • Aaron Boyd
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COVID’s US toll passes 60K; Dueling FONOPs; Naval exercise shrinks; Testing lags as states look to reopen; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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Parts of the US Are Trying to Reopen Too Early

What will happen now that some Americans seem unwilling to wait for sufficient testing?

  • Juliette Kayyem, The Atlantic
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Navy delays Crozier call; Outbreak grows on USS Kidd; COVID economic losses mount; Afghanistan’s prisoner dilemma; Facebook’s automated future; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson
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COVID sidelines Navy destroyer; Lebanon is reeling; Australians rush to get tracking app; Red-teaming the World Series; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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US COVID deaths pass 50K; Permanent limits on F-35 speed; Navy wants to reinstate Crozier; Global defense spending hits post-Cold War high; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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COVID ‘emergency’ on Djibouti base; 17% of carrier crew infected; Army’s DIY masks; Summer deployments announced; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson
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Pentagon lays out troop-testing plan; Iran orbits first satellite; Blue Angels vs. COVID; Ousted vaccine leader turns whistleblower; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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Will the US Navy Sink Iranian Fast Boats in the Gulf? Maybe, Maybe Not

It may be time to formalize how orders are passed from the White House to the military.

  • Marcus Weisgerber
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Prepare for COVID’s 2nd wave; Needed: 100K more public-health workers; Russia’s pandemic problems; F-35 delays expected; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson
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Georgia starts to reopen despite warnings, too few tests; DoD to Mexico: please restart arms factories; Is Kim Jong Un gravely ill? And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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America’s testing problem; Feds fighting hospitals for PPE; Inside Modly’s wild last week; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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Inside the Wild Final Week of the Acting Navy Secretary

How it all fell apart for Thomas Modly in seven days that included a two-plane, 50-hour trip to chastise a fired skipper to his sailors aboard a COVID-stricken aircraft carrier.

  • Bradley Peniston and Marcus Weisgerber
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Where is the White House’s testing plan?; States teaming up; Navy COVID casualty, ID’d; The most helpful NATO ally; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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Esper knocks China; The problem with COVID models; China accused of nuclear testing; Air Force Ones’s pricey repair manual; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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A federal reopening plan; Testing drops 30% in US; Milley on COVID’s origin; New guidance on N. Korean hacking; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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Did the Coronavirus Escape from a Chinese Lab? Here’s What the Pentagon Says

Gen. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, directly addressed ‘rumor and speculation’ that COVID-19 is a made-in-China weapon of war.

  • Katie Bo Williams
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More N.Korea missile tests; DoD’s remote-work revolution; CIA warns staff about Trump-touted drug; 1918 flu pandemic; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Ideas

Where is NATO? And Where is Trump?

The virus is destroying economies and paralyzing societies in ways Russian military planners could only dream.

  • Derek Chollet, Michał Baranowski and Steven Keil
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Roosevelt sailor dies of COVID; Military struggles with lack of reliable test kits; Afghan peace process lives on; Pentagon restricts Zoom use; And a bit more.

  • Bradley Peniston and Ben Watson
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