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Threats

The D Brief: Ash Carter’s troika; Sony about faces; Bin Laden shooter under investigation; The grim reality for U.S. allies in Iraq; An actual war on Christmas?; And a bit more.

By Gordon Lubold with Ben Watson

  • Gordon Lubold and Ben Watson
  • December 24, 2014
Threats

The D Brief: Who broke the Internet in North Korea? What the intel community thought would happen in 2015 – in 2000; Bob Brewin has died; Trench warfare and a holiday moment; And a bit more.

By Gordon Lubold with Ben Watson

  • Gordon Lubold
  • December 23, 2014
Threats

The D Brief: Boko Haram’s impact is widening; A major cyber vulnerability, revealed; Obama’s approval rating among troops sinks; A win for the Kurds; Militants hanged in Pakistan; And a bit more.

By Gordon Lubold with Ben Watson

  • Gordon Lubold and Ben Watson
  • December 22, 2014
Threats

The D Brief: Is “Iraq first” the right way?; An about face for the Army; Avril Haines gets the nod; The wars cost $1.6 trillion; Does Elf on a Shelf create a spy culture?: And a bit more.

By Gordon Lubold with Ben Watson

  • Gordon Lubold and Ben Watson
  • December 19, 2014
Threats

The D Brief: Landmark shift in US-Cuba relations; The spies in the middle; Rubio rising; A view from inside Langley; What Hollywood gets wrong about North Korea; And a bit more.

By Gordon Lubold with Ben Watson and Kevin Baron

  • Gordon Lubold, Ben Watson and Kevin Baron
  • December 18, 2014
Threats

The D Brief: Rajiv Shah to step down; Pakistan unites in outrage; A Yemen school attack; A Navy pilot in the ISS; The flak jacket of the future; And a bit more.

By Gordon Lubold with Ben Watson

  • Gordon Lubold and Ben Watson
  • December 17, 2014
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Threats

The D Brief: A major attack in Pakistan; A giant drone-hunting blimp; What kind of a general are you?; Behind the music on the CIA briefing; And a bit more.

By Gordon Lubold with Ben Watson

  • Gordon Lubold and Ben Watson
  • December 16, 2014
Threats

The D Brief: Derek Chollet to German Marshall; Montel Williams: Coburn jumped the shark; Stewart to DIA; A skinny puppy sues DoD; Stavridis: arm the Ukrainians; And a bit more.

By Gordon Lubold with Ben Watson

  • Gordon Lubold and Ben Watson
  • December 15, 2014
Threats

The D Brief: House hands $554b to DoD; Senate weighs in on “boots on the ground”; Brennan rebuts; Yoda’s office survives another day; A mod for the Navy’s LCS; And a bit more.

By Gordon Lubold with Ben Watson

  • Gordon Lubold and Ben Watson
  • December 12, 2014
Threats

The D Brief: Your brain, on torture; Carl Levin, disappointed; Watch a midair refueling; Strongman Rangel to head Lockheed in DC; And a bit more.

By Gordon Lubold with Ben Watson

  • Gordon Lubold and Ben Watson
  • December 11, 2014
Threats

The D Brief: Did torture get bin Laden or not? Kerry: expand the fight against IS; Mike Flynn to Dartmouth; Hunter to Obama: review raids; Dempsey takes on Bill the Goat; And a bit more.

By Gordon Lubold with Ben Watson

  • Gordon Lubold and Ben Watson
  • December 10, 2014
Threats

The D Brief: Hagel is in Baghdad; About 1,500 intl. troops to Iraq; The layers of Layer Cake; What almost scrubbed the Iraq trip; What concerns Joe Anderson?; And a bit more.

By Gordon Lubold with Ben Watson

  • Gordon Lubold and Ben Watson
  • December 9, 2014
Threats

The D Brief: The Post-Karzai government seeks a slower drawdown in Afg; What will Ash do on cyber?; Bush 43 challenges torture report; The Navy won’t let go of a recruiting lead; And a bit more.

By Gordon Lubold with Ben Watson

  • Gordon Lubold and Ben Watson
  • December 8, 2014
Threats

A Special Sunday D Brief: Mehsud reportedly transferred to Pakistan; D Brief with Chuck Hagel in Afghanistan; Why a Yemen raid went bad; Ash’s budget problems; What Hagel fears most; And a bit more.

By Gordon Lubold

  • Gordon Lubold
  • December 7, 2014
Threats

The D Brief: Why the Pentagon confiscates pepper spray; Hagel on Hagel; Jessica Wright, out; More troops for Afg; The Navy and Bill Cosby: like it never even happened; And a bit more.

By Gordon Lubold with Ben Watson

  • Gordon Lubold
  • December 5, 2014
Threats

The D Brief: Sexual assault rates up; $100 million dropped from commissaries; Don’t put Dakota in (the social media) corner; NBC’s Kube has a couple of bruisers; And a bit more.

By Gordon Lubold with Ben Watson

  • Gordon Lubold and Ben Watson
  • December 4, 2014
Threats

The D Brief: Could Ash put the band back together?; Why industry loves the Pentagon trifecta; Iranian jets strike IS; Black Suburbans surround the Pentagon; Bob Work’s sweaters; And a bit more.

By Gordon Lubold with Ben Watson

  • Gordon Lubold and Ben Watson
  • December 3, 2014
Threats

The D Brief: Jeh Johnson’s out; Ash Carter still standing; Congress has a ton of nat-sec decisions to make; A buffer zone for Turkey under consideration; A British Pat Tillman? And a bit more.

By Gordon Lubold with Ben Watson

  • Gordon Lubold and Ben Watson
  • December 2, 2014
Threats

The D Brief: Kabul grows dangerous; Wendy Anderson leaves Commerce; What about Bob (McDonald)?; Embedded media, the military and blind dates; And a bit more.

By Gordon Lubold with Ben Watson

  • Gordon Lubold and Ben Watson
  • December 1, 2014
Threats

The D Brief: The horse race for the Pentagon; Flournoy out, Carter in?; Hagel’s ear for the military and taste for Runzas; Odierno on Iraq; And a bit more.

By Gordon Lubold with Ben Watson

  • Gordon Lubold and Ben Watson
  • November 26, 2014
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