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CJCS slams 'NATO is obsolete' line ; Obama opens Nuclear Summit; Ukraine pleads for arms; Inside look at Navy’s stealth destroyer; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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US armor back to Europe?; Russian warships mass off Syria; DoD families leave Turkey; SecDef hits the road; and a bit more.

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Iraqis slooow to take Mosul; How ISIS infiltrates Europe; Hijacker idiot, not terrorist; Slo-mo F-15 takeoff; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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ISIS driven from Palmyra; Taliban bring carnage to Lahore; DoD wants to add U.S. troops in Iraq; Bad parts sideline a Navy sub; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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Citing ‘Momentum Shift,’ Pentagon Wants to Deploy More Troops to Iraq

ISIS is on their heels in Iraq and Syria, say U.S. military leaders who plan to ask the White House for more forces.

  • Ben Watson and Patrick Tucker
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ISIS is retreating; 2 Americans among Brussels dead; F-35’s feel-good tour; Pentagon hiring freeze; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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Iraq: Mosul offensive has begun; Europe’s intel crisis; Obama on US values in Brussels’ wake; Sci-fi for officers; Taiwan’s ‘Happy Farm’; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Marcus Weisgerber
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What Trump Got Right About Brussels

Trump’s diagnosis of the attack makes sense. But the proposals he and Ted Cruz offered in response do not.

  • Peter Beinart, The Atlantic
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Manhunt in Belgium; Foreign policy tensions on 2016 trail; Brussels and the ‘mother of Satan’; Pentagon strikes kill ‘dozens’ in Yemen; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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Flaws in Belgium’s Counterterrorism Efforts Were Long Known

Short staffing, communications problems, and institutional problems have plagued the country for years—and ISIS is taking advantage.

  • David A. Graham, The Atlantic
Science & Tech

How Facial Recognition Might Stop the Next Brussels

Keeping terrorists away from crowded spaces requires recognizing them before they get there, which is no easy task.

  • Patrick Tucker
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After Brussels, Will Voters Demand Foreign-Policy Experience?

Trump wants waterboarding, Cruz wants to ‘secure’ Muslim neighborhoods in wake of attacks.

  • Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
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What We Know About the Brussels Attacks

Dozens were killed in bombings at an airport and subway station, prompting outrage and disbelief across an already-shocked Europe.

  • Krishnadev Calamur, Conor Friedersdorf and J. Weston Phippen, The Atlantic
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Terror in Brussels; FBI backs off backdoor demand; Expect more NorK missiles until May; Crete, V-22s, Benghazi! And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Science & Tech

Pyongyang Forecast: More Missiles Through May

North Korea's recent launches display modest technological achievements, but that’s not why they’re flying.

  • Patrick Tucker
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More Marines to Iraq; More NorK rocket fire; Op-ed: Move NATO brigades east; Pentagon calls on Watson; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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NorK fires missile from truck; Former ISIS recruit speaks; An insider’s painfully honest look at the space industry; The week’s biz roundup; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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Punishment for Kunduz hospital strike; Army, USMC unready for war?; China rewrites the rules; Fewer bombs away! And just a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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How Syria’s Uprising Spawned a Jihad

Five years ago, the opposition to Bashar al-Assad was mostly peaceful and secular. What happened?

  • Kathy Gilsinan, The Atlantic
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Tallying the Russian exit; Kurds eye Syrian partition; Taliban gain in Helmand; Skunk Works chief looks ahead; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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