Ben Watson is news editor for Defense One. He previously worked for NPR’s “All Things Considered” and “Here and Now” in Washington, D.C. Watson served for five years in the U.S. Army, where he was an award-winning combat cameraman and media advisor for southern Afghanistan’s special operations command during the 2010-11 surge.
President Trump’s on-again, off-again angry rhetoric toward Iran is back on. “If Iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of Iran. Never threaten the United States again!” the president …
Newsflash: Iran has been reacting to U.S. threats, according to the latest publicly available U.S. intelligence. American officials now believe Iran’s leaders thought “the U.S. planned to attack …
President Trump declared America’s 33rd concurrent national emergency on Wednesday, signing a new executive order intended to keep adversaries from owning sensitive American technology. The EO was …
The U.S. is not ramping up for war against Iran with 120,000 troops, President Trump said Tuesday (AP) from the South Lawn of the White House. The news of that plan from the Pentagon is fake, the …
Trump’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia wants “reasonable responses short of war” for the alleged attacks this weekend at a UAE port near the Hormuz Strait, John Abizaid said today in Riyadh (Reuters). …
Trump’s military shifted another $1.5 billion in other programs to fund the president’s border wall, the Pentagon announced late Friday afternoon. This new-acquired money now enables another 80 …
North Korea wants everyone’s attention (or more negotiating leverage), so it carried out its second weapons launch in a week, this time from its western coast, Bloomberg reports this morning from …
Iran says it will inch away from the 2015 nuclear deal as it tries for the next 60 days to negotiate some more favorable economic situation despite intensifying U.S. sanctions, which Iranian …
We have a more clear understanding of the White House’s latest wave of anti-Iran messaging after a few administration and defense officials spoke to a four-person team of reporters from the New …
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