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.
“Our president is falling for deepfakes. Or knows it’s fake and doesn’t care,” Politico’s cybersecurity reporter Tim Starks wrote on Twitter Thursday evening after Trump tweeted a doctored video …
Pentagon prepares another surge to the Middle East. If President Trump wants to put another 10,000 troops in the Middle East, the Pentagon on Thursday is expected to tell the White House how it …
“We’re not about going to war” with Iran, President Trump’s acting defense secretary told reporters on Tuesday after twice briefing lawmakers on the alleged rising threat Tehran poses to the …
President Trump wants an immigration czar, and one infamous candidate has stepped forward with a bold list of 10 “conditions” that must be met before he will take the job, according to the New …
President Trump’s on-again, off-again angry rhetoric toward Iran is back on. “If Iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of Iran. Never threaten the United States again!” the president …
Newsflash: Iran has been reacting to U.S. threats, according to the latest publicly available U.S. intelligence. American officials now believe Iran’s leaders thought “the U.S. planned to attack …
President Trump declared America’s 33rd concurrent national emergency on Wednesday, signing a new executive order intended to keep adversaries from owning sensitive American technology. The EO was …
The U.S. is not ramping up for war against Iran with 120,000 troops, President Trump said Tuesday (AP) from the South Lawn of the White House. The news of that plan from the Pentagon is fake, the …
Trump’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia wants “reasonable responses short of war” for the alleged attacks this weekend at a UAE port near the Hormuz Strait, John Abizaid said today in Riyadh (Reuters). …
Trump’s military shifted another $1.5 billion in other programs to fund the president’s border wall, the Pentagon announced late Friday afternoon. This new-acquired money now enables another 80 …
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