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EXCLUSIVE: Walter Reed scientists expect to announce that they have developed a vaccine that protects people from COVID-19 and all its variants, even Omicron | @TaraCopp
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EXCLUSIVE: The U.S. Air Force quietly flew 500,000 COVID-19 testing kits from Italy to Memphis on Monday | @MarcusReports
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BREAKING: US Planning to Evacuate Afghan Interpreters, Top US General Says // Milley: “…for not just the interpreters but a lot of other people that have worked with the United States.” @TaraCopp
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BREAKING: Catholic Troops Can Refuse COVID Vaccine, Archbishop Declares | @ECBHowe
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Eleven American troops were wounded in Iran’s Jan. 8 missile attack on Iraq’s al-Asad air base, @DefenseBaron reports.
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UPDATE: ISIS leader #Baghdadi is believed to have detonated his own suicide vest, multiple sources confirm to @DefenseOne . #Syria
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"The Crew Made the Decision to Go:" Inside Reach 871, A US C-17 Packed With 640 Afghans Trying to Escape the Taliban | @TaraCopp and @MarcusReports
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The Army Is Working on Augmented Reality Goggles for Military Dogs | @BrandiVincent_
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Hong Kong Is Losing its Freedom | Commentary by @Doug_Bandow
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The achievement is the result of almost two years of work on the virus. The Army lab received its first DNA sequencing of the COVID-19 virus in early 2020.
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"Over the last decade, individuals and groups fueled by this virulent ideology have committed 71 percent of the known politically or religiously inspired killings in our country — that is, 274 of the 387 Americans murdered by extremists."
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National Security Pros, It’s Time to Talk About Right-Wing Extremism | Commentary by @peterwsinger
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U.S. troops are volunteering to fly people seeking an abortion from states that have banned the procedure to states where they can receive care, arguing that they donned a uniform to fight for freedom—including “freedom of choice" | @jacqklimas
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US, UK Agree to ‘Further’ Restrict Huawei, Defense Secretary Says
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Inside Reach 871, A US C-17 Packed With 640 People Trying to Escape the Taliban | @TaraCopp and @MarcusReports
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s Pledge to Exit Afghanistan Was a Ruse, His Final SecDef Says | @DefTechPat
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Russia’s requests to Interpol for Red Notices—the closest instrument to an international arrest warrant—against Kremlin opponents are being met with increasing deference by the Department of Homeland Security. | @NatashaBertrand
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Military-Funded Study Predicts When You’ll Protest on Twitter
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U.S. Army Chief Denies Trump’s Claim That Generals Make War for Arms Makers | @KatieBoWill
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Hong Kong Is Losing its Freedom | Commentary by @Doug_Bandow
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IN COMMENTARY: FBI’s Mar-a-Lago Affidavit Reveals How Trump May Have Compromised National Security
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EXCLUSIVE: Trump Wanted a Cheaper Air Force One. So USAF Is Buying a Bankrupt Russian Firm’s Undelivered 747s
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So far, only House Democrats have chosen to hold themselves publicly accountable for how they plan to handle any stolen documents that come their way. | @NatashaBertrand
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JUST IN: US Has Evacuated 42,000 from Kabul; 16,000 in last 24 Hours Alone, Pentagon Says | @TaraCopp
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IN COMMENTARY: Putin’s War, and His Rule, Are In Trouble | @elisabethbraw
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US, UK Agree to ‘Further’ Restrict Huawei, Defense Secretary Says | @DefTechPat
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Mattis is telling you that the president lacks respect for allies and a clear-eyed view of malign actors and strategic competitors, writes @davidfrum |
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BREAKING: Anthony Tata Tapped to Perform Duties of Defense Undersecretary for Policy | @MarcusReports @KatieBoWill
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Donald Trump Has No Plan, writes @GrahamDavidA via @TheAtlantic
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Alexander Vindman: Trump Is Putin’s ‘Useful Idiot’ | @JeffreyGoldberg
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Ready for a new-look Air Force One? Lawmakers aren't. A House panel drafted legislation requiring congressional approval if President Trump wants to change the aircraft's Kennedy-era paint job.
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Everything That’s Wrong With That McMaster Op-Ed | @davidfrum
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Confederate Military Base Names Just Met Their Gettysburg
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Acting DNI Shows Why Generals and Admirals Should Not Become Top Civilians Commentary by @Sarah_Chayes
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“I think it’s going to be vitally important that Congress step into the void and become the champion of democracy and human rights,” says Rep. Adam Schiff. | @UriLF
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Mattis is telling you that the president lacks respect for allies and a clear-eyed view of malign actors and strategic competitors. | Commentary by @davidfrum
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Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin urged lawmakers to pass a full-year defense budget arguing investments in new, more modern weapons are needed to counter China and Russia.
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JUST IN: Putin’s DNC Hackers Actively Targeting French Elections - @DefenseOne @DefTechPat
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JUST IN: No US Military Dogs Were Left Behind in Afghanistan, DOD Says | @ECBHowe
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Trump Doesn’t Have the Authority to Attack North Korea Without Congress by @Profepps via @TheAtlantic
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The U.S. Navy may become like the Russian fleet if it focuses solely on the quantity of ships instead of on whether vessels are properly maintained, armed, and crewed by well-trained sailors, the top admiral said Monday | @MarcusReports
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ICYMI: No, We Cannot Shoot Down North Korea’s Missiles by @Cirincione
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The Boogaloo Bois Have Guns, Criminal Records and Military Training. Now They Want to Overthrow the Government.
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America Is Acting Like a Failed State, writes @DKThomp , because the White House has failed to perform the most basic function of a state: to accurately assess a threat to the country. via @TheAtlantic
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Elon Musk is not the only defense-industry exec who showed up for the Space Force’s first change-of-command ceremony. But the SpaceX founder and controversial new owner of Twitter was the only one who got a by-name call out from the CJCS.
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Russia stole US agencies' emails from Microsoft systems, CISA says | The alert comes a week after DHS faulted the company for a security culture that enabled a similar China-backed cyberattack last year.
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GOP lawmakers used to oppose Trump's embrace of Russia. But not anymore, writes @RonBrownstein
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Senior White House Official: Wagner Mercenaries More ‘Aggressive’ Than Russian Military | The Wagner group is doing what the regular Russian military can’t. But it’s still losing. by @DefTechPat
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Why Would Biden Pick Susan Rice? His ticket doesn’t need another foreign-policy expert — nor another easy Obama-era target. | Commentary by @DefenseBaron
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No Military Has Done More for Corona-Stricken Allies Than Germany’s | Commentary by @elisabethbraw
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Considerable evidence shows that the Wikileaks dump was an orchestrated act by the Russian government.
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How Putin Weaponized Wikileaks to Influence the Election of an American President by @DefTechPat #dncleaks
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Saudi Arabia must be held accountable for Jamal Khashoggi. | Commentary by Sen. @RandPaul
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DARPA puts millions behind effort to power drones with ground-based lasers | Raytheon gets $10 million to develop energy “webs” that could keep drones in the air indefinitely. #darpa
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Today's D Brief: • Russia progressing slowly in E. Ukraine • Incendiary use spreading? • US mulls long-range rockets • Iran's new ship; And a bit more. (illustration via @TheStudyofWar )
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NEW: US Air Force Flew a Half Million Coronavirus Test Kits From Italy to Tennessee | @marcusreports
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No, We Cannot Shoot Down North Korea’s Missiles - @DefenseOne @Cirincione
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A Minuteman III ICBM test launch scheduled for this week is now postponed, @PentagonPresSec says at the Pentagon just now, so there is no possibility of the U.S.'s intentions being misunderstood
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NEW: The Biden administration will not lift the Trump administration’s ban on Turkey buying F-35 stealth fighters, which was a punishment for Ankara’s 2019 purchase of a Russian air-defense system, a senior Pentagon official said Friday. | @MarcusReports
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Biden Must Press Armenia to Hand Over Minefield Maps | Commentary by @ElinSuleymanov
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“The women’s movement in northern Syria is more like a women’s earthquake. In this sliver of the Middle East a tectonic shift of politics & governance is underway in which women’s equality now sits at the center of everything that comes next.” @gaylelemmon
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Possible ties between Trump's Azerbaijani project and Iran's Revolutionary Guard, plus other updates to our tracker
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10 U.S. Army installations are named for Confederate officers. It's time for that to change, writes @markondefense .
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Until now, there was room for reasonable disagreement over impeachment as both a matter of politics and a matter of tactics. But not anymore, says @RadioFreeTom
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A U.S. senator is stalling the promotion of an Air Force colonel who urged his peers to talk about racism and its effects on the military. Read:
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Stalin ignored his spies when their findings contradicted his assumptions. Now Trump is doing the same, writes @john_sipher |
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National Security Pros, It’s Time to Talk About Right-Wing Extremism | Commentary by @peterwsinger
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UK Defense Secretary: We Need a Stronger NATO Now More Than Ever
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Under SecDef Esper, senior defense officials and uniformed military commanders have begun to appear on right-wing talk shows. That’s not taking care to avoid partisan politics; that’s feeding them up to the lions in the Colosseum, writes @DefenseBaron
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A group of Ukrainian hackers says it has found ways to disrupt Russian military units’ navigation and is working on ways to disrupt artillery fire as well | @DefTechPat
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NEW: Pentagon Will Shift to ‘Maximum Telework’ on Monday #coronavirus | The Prognosis: Latest News on COVID-19 & National Security
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A Suspicious Death and Three Cyber Arrests Point to a New Twist in the US Election Hack
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The Air Force Is Rebuilding Its Pacific Plans Around the B-21 | via @DefTechPat
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Exclusive commentary by @tedlieu and @SenMarkey : New, More Usable Nukes for Trump? No.
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Colombia will bring the total to 19 countries | @caitlinmkenney , @jacqklimas , @TaraCopp
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BREAKING: Petraeus Trashes Biden Decision to Quit Afghanistan | From @DefenseBaron
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Nationwide router reboot was related to a massive Russian attack still infecting global systems, warns NSA’s top hacker, writes @DefTechPat |
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ULA has an ambitious plan to ‘reuse’ Vulcan rocket: keep it in space | The heavy-lift rocket’s upper stage might extend its service as a tug or defender. by @audrey_decker9
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White Supremacists Killed More Americans Last Year Than Any Other Domestic-Extremist Group | @JGreenblattADL via @TheAtlantic
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The move follows months of warnings about the Moscow-based cybersecurity firm and speculation about its possible connections to the Kremlin.
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Breaking: @DHSgov Orders US Government To Delete All @kaspersky Software | @Joseph_Marks_ @DefTechPat
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So Much for Keeping the Military Out of Politics | Commentary by @DefenseBaron
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“What we're learning from the war in Ukraine is big, slow things are big, slow targets, whether it's warships or tanks,” Raytheon Technologies CEO Greg Hayes said in an interview last week | @MarcusReports
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Mattis to Generals: Start Talking to the Press | @DefenseBaron
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Stockholm is a reminder: As terror attacks become less sophisticated, they also become more difficult to prevent.
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Btw, Pentagon would like the world to know the additional US tanks ordered up by President Obama have arrived in Europe. And they work.
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Days after combat vehicles rolled off cargo ships in Germany, #soldiers fired their first rounds in Europe.
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Here’s a suggestion for U.S. defense firms struggling to find skilled workers to build ships and weapons, straight from the chief of naval operations: hire Ukrainian and Afghan refugees | @MarcusReports
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"If so many Americans believe Russia is an ally, China is a good business partner, and terrorism isn’t worth fighting anymore, how can the United States be counted on for global security?"
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My #ChristmasEve letter to America:
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NEW: It Really Was 800+ Afghans on That Plane, Possibly the Largest C-17 Rescue Mission Ever Flown | Tara Copp, Marcus Weisgerber
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No one is joining Trump's anti-Iran coalition, writes @CSISMidEast 's Jon Alterman
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