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.
The U.S. Senate invoked the War Powers Act for the first time ever on Thursday, the Washington Post’s Pentagon reporter Missy Ryan noted early, calling it a “big, symbolic blow to U.S.-Saudi …
Turkey had better not attack Kurds in Syria who are partnered with the U.S. military, the Pentagon told Turkish officials Wednesday before telling CNN about it, too. The warning came just hours …
Oval Office argument, broadcast live. On Tuesday morning, President Trump surprised Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer by inviting the White House press into what the lawmakers thought was a private …
Border wall update via POTUS45 this morning, on Twitter: “If the Democrats do not give us the votes to secure our Country, the Military will build the remaining sections of the Wall. They know how …
President Trump abruptly changed his mind last week and OK’d a $750-billion defense budget, Politico’s Wesley Morgan reported on Sunday. The decision comes amid growing and unprecedented legal …
F-35 combat testing begins. The extensive tests are getting off the ground some 15 months behind schedule, thanks to “an extension in flight testing, software glitches and delays, and quality …
Developing this morning: A Marine Corps KC-130 and an F/A-18 fighter jet collided in midair this morning about 55 nautical miles off southern Japan’s Kochi Prefecture, Marine Corps Times reports. …
GOP senators say the Trump administration is covering up Khashoggi’s killing. Emerging from a long-sought Capitol Hill briefing by CIA Director Gina Haspel on Tuesday, Sens. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., …
Thousands of green-card-holding recruits will finally head off to boot camp, thanks to a court order cancelling a Trump administration policy that has kept them in limbo for months. The year-old …
Yemen peace talks in Sweden this week? Reps from the Houthi rebel group of central and northern Yemen are expected to fly to Sweden for talks with the UN and the Saudi-led coalition, Reuters …
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