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BLACK SWAN
While the president was still downplaying the COVID-19 epidemic, an Army briefing shared with The Daily Beast shows the service warning of the scale of death Trump now concedes.
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OVERBOARD
And the fallout isn’t just aboard the USS Roosevelt. In Kuwait, the brigade deployed to deter Iran is now caught in the Pentagon’s 60-day movement freeze.
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COVID-22
In one of the first accounts from inside the precautionary military lockdown, a returning Afghanistan veteran describes unpreparedness and absurdity.
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TURN YOUR HEAD AND COUGH
The U.S. military is withholding more than $100 million from its leading chemical and biological research facilities—including a world-famous infectious diseases lab.
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TOUGH TALK
The commander in chief got on the phone with people his government officially wants jailed or dead, Defense Department sources told The Daily Beast.
INTERCEPTED
At Goodfellow Air Force Base, servicemembers train on how to collect phone calls, texts, and other communications. How will immigration lawyers securely represent their clients?
STOLEN VALOR
The Pentagon ‘is participating in a scheme that appropriates the concept of military honor to perpetrate a human rights abuse,’ one decorated veteran tells The Daily Beast.
PARAMILITARY
Patriot Front formed after Charlottesville, and leaked messages reveal members are getting trained like they’re in boot camp.
PRANK TOO FAR
Hogg and cops said a prank call targeted the teenage school-shooting survivor’s home, triggering a substantial law-enforcement response.
SEMPER SILENCE
At the Defense Language Institute, students keep a low profile so they can be approved to see the nation’s secrets. Sometimes that protects predators.