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Threats

GOP natsec pros denounce Trump; Partition for Syria?; Pentagon taps Google chief for advice; Army’s next helicopters get set to fly; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
  • March 3, 2016
Threats

US captures ISIS guy. Now what?; Sitrep for the new US commander in Afghanistan; Boko Haram is starving; Does the Army need airborne?; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
  • March 2, 2016
Threats

Battle for Mosul begins; Who’s breaking the Syrian ceasefire?; Philippines fights ISIS; That’s a lot of classified medals; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
  • March 1, 2016
Threats

Syrian ceasefire, more or less; Bloody day in Baghdad; USAF activates new cyber weapon; When a bigger budget isn’t better; and a bit more.

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

SOF vs. Boko Haram; New USAF bomber gets a name; COCOMs will get a rethink; Senators slam Force of the Future; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
  • February 26, 2016
Threats

Aussie military spending jumps; How ISIS moves its money; Libyan fighting intensifies; Carter and Dunford head to the Hill; and a bit more.

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

China sends jets to disputed sea; US invites allies to buzz fake islands; Obama’s Gitmo plan, summarized; Contractors jump 8-fold in Iraq; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
  • February 24, 2016
Threats

Progress on Syrian cease-fire; Afghan troops rout ISIS wannabes; Russia seeks to overfly US with spy planes; China arms contested islands, ‘just like Hawaii’; and a bit more.

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

US jets hit ISIS in Libya; Syrian peace talks cancelled, for today; China blames US for SCS tensions; Betcha didn’t know tanks could do this; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
  • February 19, 2016
Threats

Car bomb turns up heat in Ankara; Did China lie about missiles?; Hackers paralyze hospital; Army symbols, interpreted, sort of; and a bit more.

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

China puts missiles on contested island; Bomber protest produces more than one winner; Apple ups encryption stakes; Time to prep for Saudi collapse?; And a bit more.

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

New front in the Syrian war; ASEAN grapples with South China Sea; Decision day for USAF bomber protest; Beijing to search for aliens with new telescope; and a bit more.

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

Syrian cease-fire agreed; US SOF want Russian arms; India to help patrol SCS; New body armor; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
  • February 12, 2016
Threats

NATO edges toward Syrian crisis; Anguish on the Turkish border; Meet the guerrilla fighters of Kurdistan: video; F-35 has 419 bugs; and a bit more.

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

Riyadh agitating to send troops to Syria; What the 2017 budget request says about DoD’s war visions; Money for Army in Europe; US, India to team up in South China Sea? and a bit more.

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

Happy Budget Day; Carter heads to anti-ISIS confab; US troops head back to Helmand; Meet the Army’s robot cockroach; and a bit more.

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

THAAD, coming to a peninsula near you?; Syrian rebels in dire straits; F-35 vs. Bomber; Twitter steps up anti-ISIS efforts; And a bit more.

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

Syrian rebels caught in a noose; Saudis offer ground force; Top German spy sees ISIS among the refugees; Women & the draft; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
  • February 5, 2016
Threats

White House eyes Libyan intervention; Baghdad walls itself in; Why Turkey chose, then rejected, a Chinese missile; Rumsfeld’s app party; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
  • February 4, 2016
Threats

NorK plans rocket launch; US to Kurds: go away; Warnings on Afghanistan; Nuclear secrets in the trash; and a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Bradley Peniston
  • February 3, 2016
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