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. Navy downed a flying object in the Hormuz Strait Thursday, an object that today Iranian officials insist was not in fact Iranian, despite President Donald Trump’s allegations at an …
The U.S. is sending thousands more troops to the U.S.-Mexico border as well as to…Saudi Arabia? Some 500 troops are slated to deploy to Prince Sultan Air Base, two U.S. two defense officials tell …
Pakistan just arrested a key militant linked to the 2008 Mumbai attack, the Wall Street Journal reports. The man in question: Hafiz Saeed, who “denies founding or leading Lashkar-e-Taiba, the …
Esper to the Hill. Mark Esper is presently trying to convince the Senate Armed Services Committee that he’s the man to lead the Pentagon, which has been without a confirmed leader for its longest …
Navy Secretary Richard Spencer’s big day…and Acting Defense Secretary Mark Esper’s kinda big day. Spencer is expected to become Acting SecDef this afternoon when Esper’s nomination paperwork is …
U.S. Army Chief Gen. Mark Milley sailed through his confirmation hearing to be the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. The tough-talking four-star sat before the Senate Armed Services Committee …
Three Iranian paramilitary ships tried to block a 140,000-ton BP oil tanker in the Hormuz Strait, but the situation changed “dramatically” once an accompanying British warship, HMS Montrose, …
Newsflash from the Pentagon: “It’s very important for everyone in the world to know we have a plan.” That’s what the chief of staff to the previous and the current acting defense secretaries, Eric …
1,000 more troops to the U.S.-Mexico border? That’s what the Department of Homeland Security requested of the Pentagon last week, on top of the roughly 5,000 already there, including about 3,000 …
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