Threats

The D Brief: Russia increases drone strikes; US troops attacked in Syria; Missing aviators declared dead; Trump’s radical view; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Threats

The D Brief: Israeli strikes in Lebanon, Syria; More Red Sea attacks; Bad online trends; Space plane’s new trick; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Threats

The D Brief: Israeli troops in Lebanon; More Red Sea ship attacks; NATO’s new chief; Navy’s sub spending; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Threats

The D Brief: Israel kills Hezbollah chief; $600M for Taiwan; DOD’s uneven study of Ukraine; BBC visits Diego Garcia; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Threats

The D Brief: New bomb for Ukraine; Congress averts shutdown; Army hits recruiting goal; SECDEF in London; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Threats

The D Brief: US troops to Mideast; Navy oiler aground; US sets date for Iraq exit?; Dueling robot wingmen; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Threats

The D Brief: Hatch Act violations; ICBM costs are a ‘collective failure’; Fiscal-year-end negotiations; Taiwan’s anti-invasion board game; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Threats

The D Brief: Fires in Russia; Rising morale in Ukraine; US fugitive fighting for Putin; Assessing troops in Syria; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Lauren C. Williams
Defense Systems

Pentagon unveils new biodefense-focused supercomputer 

The new system is part of a collaboration with the Department of Energy-sponsored Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

  • Natalie Alms
Ideas

The military needs to make human-performance optimization part of daily ops

Congress is about to pass new legislative prodding the Pentagon to do better.

  • Katherine Kuzminski
Threats

The D Brief: Ukraine loses another town; Report: US might lose a war; Anti-drone “sugar boxes”; Missile-defense debunking; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Threats

The D Brief: New-ICBM chief fired; US contractors to Ukraine?; SecDef’s convo with Russian counterpart; UXO-hunting robots; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Threats

The D Brief: Israel eyes ‘Phase C’; Ike ends Red Sea ops; B-21’s cost cleared to rise; Meet SecDef’s chief-of-staff pick; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Ideas

The Day Private Willie Mays Threw Out My Dad

Two lives intersect in a story of baseball, military service, and American society in the Korean War era.

  • Tom Shoop
Exclusive Defense Systems

Pentagon pauses development of its go-to data analytics tool

New data chief orders infrastructure improvements to Advana platform, which tracks Ukraine aid and many other things.

  • Lauren C. Williams
Threats

The D Brief: More aid to Ukraine; NATO to up military goals?; Gaza pier running again; China’s latest aircraft carrier; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Threats

The D Brief: US, Chinese defense leaders meet; Zelenskyy slaps Beijing; Retired Navy 4-star, arrested; Disinfo, powered by OpenAI; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Defense Systems

CYBERCOM, DARPA pen agreement to speed up advanced cyberwarfare research

The accord follows a 2022 announcement of the joint-agency Constellation cyber prototyping program.

  • David DiMolfetta
Policy

Defense One Radio, Ep. 154: Behind the rise in global defense spending, Part 3: The wider world

In the final episode in a three-part series, we revisit the guns-vs.-butter debate and take another look at the consequences of Washington's "porcupine" strategy for Taiwan's defense.

  • Ben Watson
Threats

The D Brief: Gaza pier opens; Israel closes border crossing; Russia’s space-nuke R&D; Congressional split; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson, Patrick Tucker and Bradley Peniston
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