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.
Trump administration officials tried to sell nuclear power plants to Saudi Arabia “despite objections from members of the National Security Council and other senior White House officials, …
16 states sue Trump over emergency, border funds. “Contrary to the will of Congress, the president has used the pretext of a manufactured ‘crisis’ of unlawful immigration to declare a national …
Trump says he’ll declare a national emergency. Having failed for two years to persuade lawmakers to provide several billion dollars to extend barriers along the U.S. southern border, President …
VP Pence really wants the Europeans to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal. “Sadly, some of our leading European partners have not been nearly as cooperative in following the U.S. lead on Iran,” …
ISIS is almost finished in its “last holdout” at the Syrian city of Baghouz, Agence France-Presse’s Maya Gebeily reports on location. (Gebeily’s also on Instagram for this, very possibly the final …
China accused the U.S. of “tricks” after the U.S. Navy’s latest South China Sea sailthru. Two U.S. Navy warships just “conducted a freedom of navigation operation within 12 nautical miles of the …
The U.S. military is preparing to leave Syria by the end of April, “even though the Trump admin has no plan yet to protect its Kurdish partners from attack when they leave,” The Wall Street …
Nogales, Ariz., may have just become the first city to demand the Pentagon remove the C-wire just installed to deter southern migrants, KJZZ’s Michel Marizco reported Wednesday from Tucson. What’s …
Trump confirms U.S.-DPRK summit. President Trump used his third State of the Union speech to confirm a 2nd meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, to be held Feb. 27-28 in Vietnam. (More about …
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