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.
Two Koreas agree to de-escalate along the DMZ, the South Korean defense ministry announced this morning. Involved (via Reuters): “…withdraw[-ing] 11 guard posts within a 1-km (0.6-mile) radius …
Taliban violence has delayed parliamentary elections in southern Afghanistan by a week following the group’s brazen assassination attempt Thursday on key Afghan officials and — if the group is to …
Violence rips a huge void in southern Afghanistan’s future, and U.S. troops are wounded as a result. Here’s what we know so far: The U.S. commander of the Afghanistan war, U.S. Army Gen. Scott …
Brace yourself: Islamic extremism is likely gonna be here for a fairly long while. That’s because “little progress had been made in dealing with the underlying conditions that have given rise to …
America’s relationship with Saudi Arabia is getting a bit dicey after Turkish media alleged Riyadh sent an assassination squad to Istanbul and the Washington Post reported “U.S. intelligence …
Says a British general: Moscow is “better than us” in using social media to shape the strategic landscape. UK Army Maj. Gen. Felix Gedney, who just finished a year as deputy commander of Operation …
17 years and one day since America began the war in Afghanistan, here’s what’s going on over there: The Afghan military carried out operations in 14 of the countries 34 provinces, The New York …
Big, if true: China put tiny spy chips on many U.S. servers. That’s the word from Bloomberg Businessweek, whose cover story published Thursday asserts that Beijing persuaded Chinese hardware …
Looks like someone tried to send some poorly-made ricin to the Pentagon this week, and possibly the White House, too. Said the Defense Department in an announcement Tuesday: “On Monday, the …
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