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SecDef Austin’s last trip to Europe America’s European allies are reeling from President-elect Trump’s talk of annexing Greenland and Canada, Defense One’s Patrick Tucker reports from the Pentagon-led Ukraine Defense Contact Group,…

Pentagon officials are devising new plans to defend air bases worldwide—plans that prioritize collaboration across all the military services, rather than relying solely on the Army for protection. The growing threat of long-range…

As White House cyber-policy lead, Harry Coker has helped oversee efforts to develop the federal workforce, harmonize regulations, and promote memory-safe programming. On Tuesday, the outgoing National Cyber…

Spotlight on TrumpPresident-elect Donald Trump has seized headlines with another extreme suggestion: leaving open the possibility of using military or economic force to expand U.S. territory by annexing Greenland, Canada, and/or the Panama…

The New Year’s Day terror attack in New Orleans is a warning that ISIS, and foreign terror groups in general, still have influence in the United States, the Pentagon’s civilian head of special operations said Tuesday.Though the Islamic…

A service member from the U.S.-led, counter-ISIS coalition was killed during a flurry of operations in the region over the past week, Central Command officials announced Monday. It’s unclear just yet who perished and where they’re from. Two…

The nation’s top oversight office is considering penning a study to assess the cost of administering a far-reaching operation to rip out and replace swaths of at-risk or compromised telecommunications equipment owned by small communications…

Domestic extremism update: Last week’s Las Vegas Cybertruck bomb suspect was a supporter of Donald Trump and Elon Musk, as well as an active-duty Green Beret with PTSD who left notes (PDF) in his phone stating he believed the U.S. was…

Update: New Orleans attacker acted alone, vowed allegiance to ISIS, officials say. Reversing an early assessment, FBI officials said Thursday that Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a 42-year-old Texas native who served as a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan,…

Army veteran behind New Orleans truck attack Investigators say they’ve uncovered ISIS-related videos posted online just hours before a Houston-based Army veteran drove into a crowd of people early Wednesday in New Orleans, and then…