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Some Good Reading for the 2016 Nuclear Security Summit

As the curtain prepares to rise on tomorrow's opening in Washington, take a moment to read the best from Defense One staff and contributors.

  • Bradley Peniston
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Policy

Why Is The Pentagon’s Personnel-Reform Chief Stepping Down? It’s Complicated

Even before Brad Carson got beat up on Capitol Hill, he was ensnared in a Catch-22.

  • Bradley Peniston
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Russia's Withdrawal from Syria Isn't All That Unexpected

It was never clear exactly what Putin wanted to accomplish, nor how his stay-at-home military was going to do it.

  • Bradley Peniston
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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US carrier to South China Sea; N. Korea in ‘pre-emptive attack mode’; McCain blasts USAF chief; Navy drafts Iran ‘fiasco’ report; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
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