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Threats

The D Brief: Is IS in Afghanistan?; CENTCOM gets hacked; The Navy’s workaround on exoskeletons; Hagel, wheels up for the last time; An architecture lesson, failed; And a bit more.

By Gordon Lubold with Ben Watson

  • Gordon Lubold and Ben Watson
  • January 13, 2015
Threats

The D Brief: Carter’s transition team continues to form; Feinstein: P4 has suffered enough; Clapper loves North Korean food, not the company; Musical chairs for journos; And a bit more.

By Gordon Lubold with Ben Watson

  • Gordon Lubold and Ben Watson
  • January 12, 2015
Threats

The D Brief: French police close in; Yemen connection confirmed; Five months of airstrikes in Iraq, Syria; A workaround for F-35; Dempsey eyeing more aid for Iraq; Romley to CNAS; And a bit more.

By Gordon Lubold with Ben Watson

  • Gordon Lubold and Ben Watson
  • January 9, 2015
Threats

The D Brief: Why didn’t security cameras help in Paris?; Yemen burns; Iraqi veteran wants to rein in bennies; Lockheed to extend range of it’s THAAD; The Pentagon’s Warren to reporters: watch us; And a bit more.

By Gordon Lubold with Ben Watson

  • Gordon Lubold and Ben Watson
  • January 8, 2015
Threats

The D Brief: 12 dead in Paris; U.S. trainers to flow into Iraq; Pentagon Correspondents rejoice; Kirby: we don’t count every nose we shwack; And a bit more.

By Gordon Lubold with Ben Watson

  • Gordon Lubold and Ben Watson
  • January 7, 2015
Threats

The D Brief: An Islamic State police official, decapitated; Ash Carter to face Senate in Feb.?; Why Bill Moran’s efforts to reform the Navy’s personnel system are critical; Maxim pinups still in Taji; And a bit more.

By Gordon Lubold with Ben Watson

  • Gordon Lubold and Ben Watson
  • January 6, 2015
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Threats

The D Brief: Support for the Afghan war is up; The Air Force’s drone problem; How military families grieve; Is the M4 flawed or what?; And a bit more.

By Gordon Lubold with Ben Watson

  • Gordon Lubold and Ben Watson
  • January 5, 2015
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
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
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