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 “Gang of Eight” lawmakers will get a classified briefing today from White House officials on that alleged Russian bounty on American troops in Afghanistan, administration officials announced …
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President Trump was briefed on Russian bounties back in March 2019, the Associated Press reports today. That would mean, at a minimum, White House officials knew about the alleged secret efforts …
Russia “secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants for killing American troops in Afghanistan,” the Associated Press reports this morning, confirming an initial, explosive New York …
Some 40,000 Americans were newly discovered to be infected with the coronavirus on Thursday, beating the daily record set just one day prior, according to the Johns Hopkins University’s COVID-19 …
The U.S. has set a new record for single-day coronavirus infections, topping the previous peak of 36,400 on April 26. The New York Times put Wednesday’s case count at 36,935; the Washington Post …
New coronavirus cases are back to where they were at the peak of America’s outbreak, which was two months ago, the Associated Press reports this morning. On Tuesday, the U.S. added 34,700 cases, …
Twenty-five states are seeing COVID-19 cases rise again, with Oklahoma leading the way, followed by Arizona, Florida, Texas and Missouri. And in Arizona, officials reported 17,000 new cases last …
The Trump campaign dramatically underwhelmed in coronavirus-hit Tulsa on Saturday, where only a fraction of the expected attendees showed. It was the president’s first rally since the outbreak of …
The U.S. is down to 8,600 troops in Afghanistan, about a month ahead of schedule, CENTCOM’s Gen. Frank McKenzie said Thursday in a webinar organized by the Aspen Strategy Group. “We have met our …
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