Threats

Wear Homemade Masks If You Can't Get Real Ones, Pentagon Tells Its People

N95 respirators and surgical masks will be reserved for health care workers and patients, the Defense Department said in a series of memos this week.

  • Erich Wagner
Ideas

NATO Should Always Work From Home

Alliance leaders are using virtual meetings to make quicker decisions. That’s exactly what Russia should fear.

  • Hans Binnendijk and Christopher Skaluba
Threats

How US spies are grappling with the virus; Troops with COVID near 2,000; A year without a DHS secretary; States of emergency; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Threats

Three of 11 carriers have COVID; Coronavirus ceasefire in Yemen; Iraq names a new PM, again; Pentagon shifts budget deadlines; And a bit more.

  • Bradley Peniston and Ben Watson
Policy

Pentagon Delays Budget Deadline to Help Staff Work from Home

Service officials had complained that a June 1 deadline was preventing them from implementing coronavirus-related social-distancing guidelines.

  • Marcus Weisgerber and Katie Bo Williams
Threats

US threatens total Afghanistan withdrawal; Acting SecNav resigns; Sailors disinfecting ship lack masks; Trump ousts Defense watchdogs; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Threats

Acting SecNav slams fired CO; Trump has stake in drug he touts; Is Zoom safe?; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Threats

The Battle of USS Theodore Roosevelt: a Timeline

The COVID-stricken aircraft carrier sailed out of its regular deployment and into international headlines, with repercussions from Guam to Washington. Here's what happened and when.

  • Bradley Peniston
Threats

DoD orders everyone to wear masks; Capt. Crozier’s firing; Lockheed adds jobs; Trump fires IC IG in reprisal; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Threats

Fired skipper gets rousing sendoff; Military expands medical help; Army plans battalion-sized ‘safety bubbles’; Open Skies flights, visualized; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Threats

Thousands of Federal Employees Have The Coronavirus

Many more are quarantined due to possible exposure as employees are on the frontlines fighting COVID-19 and providing essential services.

  • Eric Katz
Threats

Aircraft Carrier Captain Fired For ‘Poor Judgement’ In Sending Coronavirus Letter

Acting Secretary Modly’s Thursday decision to sack the skipper of Theodore Roosevelt was quickly criticized as retaliation for embarrassing Navy leaders.

  • Bradley Peniston and Kevin Baron
Threats

Exclusive: US Army Wants To Train Hundreds of Soldiers in Coronavirus ‘Safety Bubbles’

Entire companies and battalions could be isolated in the field for a month, Secretary McCarthy said in an interview.

  • Katie Bo Williams
Ideas

Let Them Work From Home

The coronavirus is the push the Pentagon needs to become a 21st century workplace.

  • Susanna V. Blume
Threats

US Navy’s carrier evacuation; Marines’ get-lighter plan; Air Force’s new cadet-isolation policy; 100K 'human remains pouches'; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Policy

Russian Cargo Plane With Medical Supplies Lands in New York

Moscow seized the opportunity to promote its fulfillment of a U.S. purchase order.

  • Marcus Weisgerber
Threats

US Sailors Pour Off Aircraft Carrier and Into Coronavirus Isolation on Guam

Navy leaders praise ship’s captain for urgent evacuation request; 3,700 will leave the ship within days.

  • Bradley Peniston
Ideas

We Must Continue Fighting Terrorism as Relentlessly as the Coronavirus

There’s no miracle drug for stopping terrorism. It is controllable, but never curable.

  • Christopher P. Costa
Threats

Trump: expect 100K US dead; Carrier being evacuated; US-RoK troop agreement lapses; TRANSCOM worried about airlines; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Business

Military Leaders Worry About Health of Commercial Airlines

The leader of U.S. Transportation Command is looking for ways to give them work.

  • Marcus Weisgerber
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