Policy

'Winning' or Not, Trump Doesn't Seem to Be Listening To His Generals

Based on what he says, Trump already is defying his generals. The real test is what he actually does.

  • Kevin Baron
Threats

Coalition troops storm into west Mosul; USAF’s new weapons to kill ISIS drones; POTUS and the nukes; VX in Malaysia; When ‘military’ isn’t ‘military’; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Kevin Baron
Threats

Coalition takes Mosul airport; McRaven lectures Trump on the 'enemy'; Turkey’s rebels ‘liberate’ Al-Bab; McCain to Syria; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Kevin Baron
Threats

Mosul’s new phase; McMaster to the Situation Room; WH confuses Europe; Mattis says no to Iraqi oil theft; Gorka, in context; Drone suicide boat in Yemen; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Kevin Baron
Policy

Trump: I’m Not Being Tough On Russia Because I Want to Make A Deal

The president, who joked about sinking Moscow’s spy ship off the Atlantic coast, didn’t say what kind of deal he wants.

  • Kevin Baron
Policy

Trump’s Empty Ultimatum to NATO

Defense Secretary Mattis just called for Europe to increase defense spending or else...what exactly?

  • Kevin Baron
Ideas

Trump’s Dangerous 'Dishonest' Message to the Troops

It’s politics when a candidate disparages “the media.” But it’s potentially dangerous when the commander in chief tells U.S. troops not to trust the reporters who cover them.

  • Kevin Baron
Threats

Afghanistan Needs ‘Thousands’ More Troops, US General Says

The commander of U.S. forces there lays the first major war decision on Donald Trump’s desk.

  • Kevin Baron
Threats

Trump’s big natsec day; More US troops to Afghanistan?; China incensed; Iraq wants clarity on ‘take the oil’; and just a bit more...

  • Ben Watson, Bradley Peniston and Kevin Baron
Threats

CinC Trump takes command; The state of defense in 2017; ships eye North Korea; Army picks a new gun; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Kevin Baron
Threats

Carter warns against ISIS war buildup; B-2s bomb Libya; Assad teases reconciliation; Most ISIS commanders in Mosul are dead; Private air force for sale; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Kevin Baron
Threats

Trump’s ISIS war plans are in the works; The determination of Russian hackers; Manning and Cartwright get early release; Gabbard goes to Syria; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Kevin Baron
Ideas

SPECIAL REPORT: The Military Loves the Obama Doctrine. Can It Survive Trump?

Commanders say they’re already fighting ISIS the right way: “by, with, and through” local forces.

  • Kevin Baron
Threats

Trump tweet bombs defense industry; Wants a nuclear arms race?; Berlin attacker killed; Airline hijacking; Aleppo; Turkey; CNO stopping by; And just a bit more...

  • Kevin Baron and Ben Watson
Threats

Trump and Pentagon brass talk future weapons; UN to prep cases on Syrian war crimes; Blackout in Ukraine (again); How the DNC hackers bugged Ukraine’s military; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson, Marcus Weisgerber and Kevin Baron
Threats

New twist in Berlin; Trump convenes natsec team; Palantir at Trump’s table; 100 Russian spies in the U.S.; New fighter jet from design to flight in 1 year; And a bit more.

  • Ben Watson and Kevin Baron
Threats

Terror by truck in Berlin; Russia’s CSI in Ankara; F-35 chief fires back at Trump; Bye-bye, F-4s; and just a bit more….

  • Ben Watson, Bradley Peniston and Kevin Baron
Threats

5 terrorist attacks in 5 cities; Syria war heats up; Grappling with Russian hacking; Trump on China, IC, F-35; and just a bit more...

  • Ben Watson, Kevin Baron, Marcus Weisgerber and Bradley Peniston
Policy

What You Don’t Know About Gen. John Kelly

The four-star boy from Boston brings to DHS the grief of losing friends to America’s drug epidemic and a son to the war on terrorism.

  • Kevin Baron
Policy

How Trump Will Fight ISIS Worries Top House Armed Services Democrat

HASC's Rep. Adam Smith, in a C-SPAN-hosted interview, challenged Trump's incoming team to produce a national security strategy that doesn’t alienate the U.S. military's Muslim partners fighting terrorism.

  • Kevin Baron
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