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Bradley Peniston

Deputy Editor

Bradley Peniston
Bradley Peniston is deputy editor of Defense One. A national security journalist for two decades, he helped launch Military.com, served as managing editor of Defense News, and was editor of Armed Forces Journal. His books include No Higher Honor: Saving the USS Samuel B. Roberts in the Persian Gulf, now part of the Chief of Naval Operations' Professional Reading Program.
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Today's D Brief: New NDAA veto threat; OMB’s unusual budget moves; ISIS-Defeat chief was fired; No significant election fraud, AG Barr says; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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Today's D Brief: Navy to scrap burned ship; Robot battle buddies; Defeat-ISIS chief leaves; Mapping China’s talent net; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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Today's D Brief: Iranian nuke scientist killed; CIA agent KIA in Somalia; NATO & China; New COVID record; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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Today's D Brief: COVID deaths draw WH call for nationwide “behavior change”; Biden, NATO chief talk; Afghan talks ‘deadlocked’; B-1 test-rigged for hypersonics; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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Today's D Brief: Transition begins at last; Biden’s first natsec picks; NDAA veto threat; Army’s airborne artillery; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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Today's D Brief: Biden natsec team; IS attacks Kabul; Army reorganizes commands; More COVID records; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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Today's D Brief: US COVID deaths hit 250,000; DoD’s shifting tech priorities; UK to boost defense budget; Green Beret spied for Russia; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson, Marcus Weisgerber and Bradley Peniston
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Today's D Brief: Miller tries again; Faster Afghanistan drawdown?; ICBM downed in test; COVID & boot camp; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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Today's D Brief: Miller’s memo; COVID packing ICUs; Helicopter victims, ID’d; Army’s next missiles; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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Today's D Brief: ‘The most secure’ election; Syria ‘shell games’; China’s new joint ops doctrine; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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Today's D Brief: Deadly helo crash; What’s with the Pentagon churn?; 400K COVID deaths predicted; Navy’s ghost ship; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston

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Pentagon purge continues; Still no evidence of election irregularities; Worst COVID day since March; Virtual flight-test for a nuke; and a bit more...

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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Esper fired; Trump keeps fighting; Election-crimes chief quits; SDF to Biden: ‘send more troops’; Caucasus cease-fire; and a bit more...

  • Kevin Baron and Bradley Peniston
Policy

Trump Fires Esper, Taps NCTC Director to be Acting SecDef

Christopher Miller becomes Trump's fourth acting defense secretary just 72 days before Inauguration Day.

  • Marcus Weisgerber, Bradley Peniston and Katie Bo Williams
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Today's D Brief: Transition on hold; Biden’s natsec priorities; COVID accelerates; Promising vaccine results; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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Today's D Brief: Election update; Disinfo spreads online; Esper’s next moves?; COVID hospitalizations rise sharply; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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Today's D Brief: New COVID peak in the US; 800,000 get misleading robocalls; NSA sees no big hacks; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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Today's D Brief: Too close to call; HASC, SASC races; Cyber ops; UK sees “severe” terror risk; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson, Marcus Weisgerber and Bradley Peniston
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Today's D Brief: Another vice chief has COVID; New warnings for hospitals; Anti-ISIS air strikes; Mass shootings, up; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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Today's D Brief: Home by Christmas? No; FBI eyes potential disinfo; Sweden’s big spending boost; Turkish S400 fired? And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson, Bradley Peniston and Katie Bo Williams