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The D Brief: WH mulls Greenland options; China’s invasion barges; New OPSEC failure; 4th missing…
White House mulls Greenland takeover options, the Washington Post reports. One option: offer Greenlanders more than the $600 million annual subsidy provided by NATO ally Denmark. “This is a lot higher than that,” said one official…
US-Europe divorce unlikely—absent a new crisis
Growing concerns about the U.S. relationship with NATO allies—fueled by Donald Trump’s overtures to Russia and attacks on Ukraine and Denmark—have spurred European officials to biweekly meetings about replacing American defense…
Add special operators to the Joint Simulation Environment
The 2006 film X-Men: The Last Stand opened with an action-packed battle in the Danger Room, the superheroes’ futuristic virtual training facility. Weapons seemingly flew through the air, explosions were felt, and the stress was…
How NORAD could be hurt by US-Canada tensions
If President Trump’s tariffs and threats shatter the U.S.-Canadian defense partnership, the Pentagon would lose some ability to track incoming enemy threats.Without Canada’s radar sites, “the northern approaches would be severely…
Administration, unions trade lawsuits over ‘national security’ order to reduce feds’…
It’s been just days since President Trump signed an unprecedented executive order aimed at stripping two-thirds of the federal workforce of their collective-bargaining rights, but both the White House and federal employee unions are already…
The D Brief: US soldiers’ bodies found; Raising Nordic defenses; Russia’s new draft; A-10s to Middle…
Developing: The bodies of three U.S. soldiers were recovered Monday after their sunken M88A2 Hercules vehicle was finally retrieved from a swampy bog in eastern Lithuania, just a half-dozen miles from the border with Belarus. “We will…
Signalgate spurs DOD interest in chat-archiving services
Federal law requiring agencies to preserve electronic messages—and a lawsuit in the wake of the infamous group chat about strikes in Yemen—have officials with Defense, Justice, and Homeland Security reaching out to at least one company…
The D Brief: DOD-shakeup proposals due in days; Border-ops price tag; New Army tech; Rocketmakers’…
Senior Defense Department leaders have less than two weeks to submit proposals to shrink and reorganize their commands, agencies, and departments, Secretary Pete Hegseth said in a Friday memo that also proffered early-retirement and…
SecDef gives DOD leaders less than two weeks to lay out cuts, changes
Updated: March 29, 3:47 p.m. ET.Senior Defense Department leaders have less than two weeks to submit proposals to shrink and reorganize their commands, agencies, and departments, Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered in a Friday memo that also…
The Army wants simple, cheap unmanned tech—here are some options
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has brought into stark relief that the U.S. Army needs not just powerful vehicles and artillery, but lots and lots of simpler unmanned and counter-unmanned systems for drone warfare.“When…
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