United States Defense and Military Forces

• ICE Is a ‘Secret Police’ Americans Didn’t Ask For - Amid national protests, the round table convenes to debate what anti-ICE tactics should look like.
• War Threats and Ambiguous Evidence: Trump Again Confronts Iran - There is little sign that Iran has made significant progress in reconstituting its nuclear program, leaving questions about the timing and motive behind potential plans for further attacks.
• Maps: Where the U.S. Is Building Up Military Force Near Iran - President Trump has not authorized military action in Iran, but the U.S. has built up its presence in the region in recent days.
• Trump Weighs New Military Options Against Iran - The plans being weighed by the president go beyond those he considered weeks ago amid widespread protests against Iran’s government.
• The Journey of a Group of Cuban Deportees Stuck at Guantánamo - The tale illustrates how inefficient the ICE operation has been in the year since President Trump ordered the base to prepare for up to 30,000 “criminal aliens.”
• How Battlefield Tech Was Used in Minneapolis - Our reporter Thomas Gibbons-Neff, who deployed twice to Afghanistan as a Marine and later was our Kabul bureau chief, looks at the battlefield technology used for an immigration arrest at a home in Minneapolis.
• Why the NORAD Cold War Pact Between the U.S. and Canada Is News - The State Department clarified comments made by the U.S. Ambassador to Canada that NORAD would be “altered” if that country did not purchase American F-35 jets.
• U.S. allies in the Middle East have been pressing for weeks to prevent a conflict with Iran. - Diplomats in the region have spent weeks trying to prevent a confrontation that they say risks a wider conflict.
• Trump Says U.S. ‘Armada’ Is Heading to Iran, Raising Pressure on Regime - President Trump said the United States was “watching Iran” and sending a naval force there, despite also saying that his threats had halted executions.
• Trump’s Turnabout on Greenland Shows the Limits of His Coercive Powers - President Trump’s faith in his ability to wring concessions by taking maximalist positions was on full display this week. So were the costs, as he splintered NATO and then undercut his credibility by climbing down from his threats.