Threats

The D Brief: Commandant’s ARG/MEU push; Army acquisition reform; B-21, ICBM projects; ‘DoW’ price tag; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Threats

The D Brief: Acquisition reforms; SecDef’s purge; Army’s million-drone plans; Shutdown deal?; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson
Threats

Defense One Radio, Ep. 198: Jon Wolfsthal and “A House of Dynamite”

A veteran of the National Security Council shares what the movie got right and wrong on U.S. missile defense and nuclear command and control.

  • Defense One Staff
Threats

The D Brief: Acquisition-reform draft; US pitches Gaza force; Nuke-test differences; Vietnam’s fake islands; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson, Thomas Novelly and Bradley Peniston
Threats

The D Brief: Venezuela targets picked?; STRATCOM nom pressed on tests; USAF fighter plan; New Guard quick-reaction forces; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Threats

STRATCOM nominee takes heat hours after Trump’s nuclear-test bombshell

In and around Vice Adm. Richard Correll’s confirmation hearing, senators criticized the president's new interest in testing.

  • Lauren C. Williams
Threats

The D Brief: New nuke tests?; Pushback on European drawdown; Arms-export overhaul expected; Marines axe planned regiment; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson
Threats

The D Brief: Hurricane evacuation; B-1s off Venezuela; DOD civs fret amid shutdown; Plutonium for sale; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Threats

The D Brief: Caribbean buildup; Carrier loses two aircraft; Court reverses Guard ruling; China’s AI-powered robots; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Policy

End furloughs that have idled 80% of nuclear-security staff, lawmakers urge

Sidelining the National Nuclear Security Administration puts the country at risk, 27 U.S. representatives tell Energy Dept. leaders.

  • Carten Cordell
Science & Tech

Army wants to break ground for a microreactor on a US base by 2027

The service is pushing to make bases energy-independent, but safety and fuel-supply concerns persist.

  • Thomas Novelly
Threats

The D Brief: AFSOC’s Caribbean exercise; NATO’s new Ukraine aid-pool; Saudi-Pakistani pact; Back to Bagram?; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Threats

The D Brief: Deadly force in the Caribbean; How China arms Russia; SPACECOM HQ to move; Drone conundrum; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Defense Systems

Second B-21 will fly by year’s end, USAF says

Also: official won't confirm US nukes are back in UK but says B61 is “deployed throughout the continent.”

  • Audrey Decker
Threats

Inside Israel's June 13 attack on Iran

How the Mossad secretly recruited Iranian dissidents to attack their country from within.

  • Yossi Melman and Dan Raviv, ProPublica
Threats

The D Brief: Shooting at Ft. Stewart; Spain rejects F-35; China’s nuclear endgame; DNI’s document; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Ideas

How big will China’s nuclear arsenal get?

No one knows, but we can game out potential endpoints of Beijing’s buildup.

  • Jacob Stokes
Threats

The D Brief: Fighter-jet builders strike; China’s rare-earth squeeze; Army’s huge IT contract; DHS signals more troop deployments; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Threats

The D Brief: Two mass shootings; US nukes to UK?; Trump’s new deadline; Europe’s defense-AI startups; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Threats

The D Brief: Houthis sink second ship; UK-France nuke deal; Russia’s drone factories; 3 Marine bases get ICE agents; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
Next