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Threats

CJCS slams 'NATO is obsolete' line ; Obama opens Nuclear Summit; Ukraine pleads for arms; Inside look at Navy’s stealth destroyer; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
  • March 31, 2016
Threats

Iraqis slooow to take Mosul; How ISIS infiltrates Europe; Hijacker idiot, not terrorist; Slo-mo F-15 takeoff; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
  • March 29, 2016
Threats

ISIS driven from Palmyra; Taliban bring carnage to Lahore; DoD wants to add U.S. troops in Iraq; Bad parts sideline a Navy sub; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
  • March 28, 2016
Threats

Citing ‘Momentum Shift,’ Pentagon Wants to Deploy More Troops to Iraq

ISIS is on their heels in Iraq and Syria, say U.S. military leaders who plan to ask the White House for more forces.

  • Ben Watson and Patrick Tucker
  • March 25, 2016
Threats

ISIS is retreating; 2 Americans among Brussels dead; F-35’s feel-good tour; Pentagon hiring freeze; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
  • March 25, 2016
Threats

Iraq: Mosul offensive has begun; Europe’s intel crisis; Obama on US values in Brussels’ wake; Sci-fi for officers; Taiwan’s ‘Happy Farm’; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Marcus Weisgerber
  • March 24, 2016
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Threats

Manhunt in Belgium; Foreign policy tensions on 2016 trail; Brussels and the ‘mother of Satan’; Pentagon strikes kill ‘dozens’ in Yemen; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
  • March 23, 2016
Threats

Terror in Brussels; FBI backs off backdoor demand; Expect more NorK missiles until May; Crete, V-22s, Benghazi! And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
  • March 22, 2016
Threats

More Marines to Iraq; More NorK rocket fire; Op-ed: Move NATO brigades east; Pentagon calls on Watson; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
  • March 21, 2016
Threats

NorK fires missile from truck; Former ISIS recruit speaks; An insider’s painfully honest look at the space industry; The week’s biz roundup; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
  • March 18, 2016
Threats

Punishment for Kunduz hospital strike; Army, USMC unready for war?; China rewrites the rules; Fewer bombs away! And just a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
  • March 17, 2016
Threats

Tallying the Russian exit; Kurds eye Syrian partition; Taliban gain in Helmand; Skunk Works chief looks ahead; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
  • March 16, 2016
Threats

Russia exiting Syria, mostly; Pentagon wants to buy your garage bomb; Which candidate do the troops back?; A Catch-22 for personnel reforms; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
  • March 15, 2016
Ideas

Hey, America: Don’t Forget Your Soldiers While Spending Billions on Future Weapons

AUSA President Gordon Sullivan describes what a smaller, busier Army means for American power, global instability, and the troops themselves.

  • Ben Watson
  • March 14, 2016
Threats

Turks hit Kurds after Ankara bombing; US-backed Syrians lose more arms to AQ's JAN; Russia wants to help take Raqqa; More wayward Hellfires; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
  • March 14, 2016
Threats

Syrian partition, on the table; F-35 chief offers some advice; North Korean hackers pour it on; What do the Taliban actually control? And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
  • March 11, 2016
Threats

The D Brief: ISIS, doxxed; Syria becomes a combat lab; Trump could cost US jobs; Ukraine’s malicious blackout; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
  • March 10, 2016
Threats

Taliban control a third of Afghanistan; Iran launches two test missiles; Has North Korea built a warhead?; Bye-bye, Bitchin’ Betty; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
  • March 9, 2016
Threats

Big US strike in Somalia; DoD draws up plans for Libya; What the candidates get wrong about future war; Albania auctions Soviet jets; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
  • March 8, 2016
Threats

Gitmo: ‘It’s all BS’; Quarrels delay Mosul offensive; Dem debate skips natsec; Russian subs reheat Cold-War chokepoint; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
  • March 7, 2016
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