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Trump asks North Korea to talk; Chinese carrier transits strait; Iran, China try to quell protests; Linking the battlefield; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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US asks S. Korea to pay more for protection; Amazon to protest JEDI; A former SOCOM leader’s regret; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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Trump to meet with NATO SecGen; Erdogan's iPad; Ukraine revelations; ‘600-ish’ troops stay in Syria; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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About 600 US Troops to Remain in Syria, Esper Says

But for what mission? Pentagon chief says Trump’s focus on "keeping" oil is part of fighting ISIS.

  • Katie Bo Williams
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Erdogan’s day in Washington; Impeachment hearings; NATO SecGen; More violence in Afghanistan; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Kevin Baron
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War crime allegations in N. Syria; SecDef: Expect funding cuts, shifts; US bases getting hotter; Migrant children detentions sets record; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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Turkey sends ISIS fighters home; US to keep 500+ troops in Syria; Russia’s ‘autonomous’ strike UAVs; F-35, F-22 to try swapping data; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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The Mad Scramble for Syria

After weeks of chaos in the northeast, great powers redrew a small chunk of the map. And a bigger story is just beginning.

  • Kathy Gilsinan, The Atlantic
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Pentagon says Syrian oil will go to SDF; Houthis attack Yemen port city; Iran downs drone; Measure civilians’ readiness; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson
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Live! Defense One Outlook 2020; Doomsday plane drops a mission; Measuring defense civilians’ readiness; Google wants more defense work; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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Defense One, CNAS Launch American Readiness Project

Over the next year, the Project will chronicle Americans' desire, willingness, and capability to keep their country a global security leader.

  • Defense One Staff
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US forces move to Syrian oil fields; China’s killer-robot UAVs, exported; Naval mines, updated; Record-setting October; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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Defense One Wins Two Eddie Awards

The Folio: media group recognized the Defense One Radio podcast and an investigative piece on the Pentagon’s JEDI contract.

  • Defense One Staff
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9 Americans killed in Mexico; Iraq kills more protesters; Interview with ex-DOD Mideast policy chief; Boosting base security; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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The US Might Have Warded Off Turkey’s Syria Invasion, Says DOD’s Outgoing Mideast Policy Chief

U.S. and Turkish officials were shoring up a joint-patrol deal when Trump scuttled it.

  • Katie Bo Williams
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Iran adds centrifuges; US consolidates at giant Korean base; Trump: ‘we did keep the oil’; US, China spar over the South China Sea; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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Border Agents Can Now Get Classified Intelligence Information. Experts Call That Dangerous.

Classified information will flow from U.S. intelligence agencies to the National Vetting Center to border agents. Migrants and others denied entry will be unable to see the evidence against them.

  • Melissa del Bosque, ProPublica
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Turkey, Russia joint-patrol Syria; DOD drafts AI rules; N. Korea re-tests ‘super-large’ MLRS; Iraq protests grow; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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The Taliban Got Way Deadlier in 2019, Says Pentagon's Afghanistan IG

The group mounted 3,500 deadly or wounding attacks this summer, even as U.S. airstrikes rose.

  • Katie Bo Williams
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N. Korea launches missiles; National Guard guarding Syrian oil; EW training is ‘garbage’; Interior grounds all of its drones; and just a bit more...

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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