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Today's D Brief: Austin set for approval; Guard snafu; Nuke treaty, extended; New powers for China’s coast guard; And just a bit more.
Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
January 22, 2021
Today's D Brief: Austin set for approval; Guard snafu; Nuke treaty, extended; New powers for China’s coast guard; And just a bit more.
Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
January 22, 2021
Today's D Brief: New Pentagon crew; New COVID steps; Explosions in Baghdad; Fractures among US extremists; And a bit more.
Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
January 21, 2021
Today's D Brief: Biden’s first moves; Austin’s vows; New DOD team; IC’s ‘biggest challenge’; And a bit more.
Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
January 20, 2021
Today's D Brief: Haines, Austin confirmation hearings; Biden’s nuclear challenges; Inauguration security; More B-52 deterrence flights; And a bit more.
Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
January 19, 2021
Today's D Brief: No DOD farewell for Trump; US forces shrink in Iraq, Afghanistan; 20K Guardsmen to protect DC; New N. Korean weapons; And a bit more.
Ben Watson
January 15, 2021
Today's D Brief: Capitol fortified; Trump is impeached, again; Defense contractors, ranked; Renaissance plague rules; And a bit more.
Ben Watson
January 14, 2021
Today's D Brief: Armed troops defend the Capitol; Joint Chiefs decry the “riot”; Social-media crackdown; New warship updates; And a bit more.
Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
January 13, 2021
Today's D Brief: Armed unrest expected in US; Illegal Afghanistan drawdown?; CNO’s shipbuilding concerns; Syria update; And a bit more.
Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
January 12, 2021
Today's D Brief: After the insurrection; Trump’s social-media ban; US diplomats decry POTUS; Navy’s coming missile gap; And a bit more.
Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
January 11, 2021
Today's D Brief: Officer dies after Capitol riot; Thousands of troops head to DC; The foreign spin; 4K die of COVID; And a bit more.
Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
January 8, 2021
Today's D Brief: Failed insurrectionists storm Capitol; Biden’s victory, certified; Senate flips; New COVID records; And a bit more.
Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
January 7, 2021
Today's D Brief: Drama in DC; COVID deaths hit new high; Russia backed hack, IC says; Green Berets to Sweden; And a bit more.
Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
January 6, 2021
Today's D Brief: DC Guard called up for protests; ‘Anti-disinformation Monday’; Iran boards S. Korean tanker; Mozambican insurgency grows; And a bit more.
Ben Watson
January 5, 2021
Today's D Brief: SecDefs avow military neutrality; Trump pushes to alter election results; Iran’s enriching; NDAA veto overriden; And a bit more.
Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
January 4, 2021
Today's D Brief: Outrage over Blackwater pardons; Miller spotlights SOF; Shutdown watch; Big vaccine buy; And a bit more.
Kevin Baron and Ben Watson
December 23, 2020
Today's D Brief: Deadliest year in US history; A carrier off Somalia; Missile sub through Hormuz; Sanctions on Russia and China; And a bit more.
Kevin Baron and Ben Watson
December 22, 2020
Today's D Brief: Vaccines, compared; NSA/CYBERCOM split?; More Trump deference to Russia; Welcome, ‘guardians’; And a bit more.
Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
December 21, 2020
Today's D Brief: ‘Biggest breach in decades’; Lawmakers beg Trump to sign NDAA; Vaccine-notification snafu; Energy bans Chinese products; And a bit more.
Ben Watson
December 18, 2020
Today's D Brief: Joint Chiefs chair meets Taliban; COVID deaths hit new high; New sea-services strategy; AI flies on a U-2; And a bit more.
Ben Watson and Katie Bo Williams
December 17, 2020
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Today's D Brief: Epic password fail; Russian anti-satellite test; COVID & natsec; Chess for grunts; And a bit more.
Ben Watson
December 16, 2020
Today's D Brief: 300,000 US COVID deaths; The race to contain SolarWind hack; Electors affirm Biden; Sticky bomb kills Kabul leader; And a bit more.
Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
December 15, 2020
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