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• The D Brief: ‘Perfidy’ in boat strike?; Pentagon’s new AI plan; Venezuela’s broken air defenses; Quantum space cameras; And a bit more.

  13-01-2026 17:09 via defenseone.com
  Did Trump’s attacks on boats off Latin America involve a second type of war crime? The Defense Department is accused of killing shipwrecked survivors after a strike on an alleged drug-running boat on Sept. 2 in the Caribbean Sea near Trinidad and Tobago. But the New York Times reported Monday that the attack may also have involved a second war crime: “perfidy”—that is, disguising military equipment as civilian in order to sneak up and kill someone. The Pentagon&rsquo
  
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• Quantum cameras could remake space-based intelligence

  13-01-2026 05:05 via defenseone.com
  Can quantum physics enable better, cheaper, faster satellite photos? In a month or two, a startup will test a “quantum camera” aboard an orbital telescope. If it works, it could slash the cost of missile defenses and give smaller NATO allies and partners spy-satellite capabilities that were once exclusive to major powers.Funded in part by NASA and DARPA, the Boston-based Diffraqtion is testing a radically different way to make images from photons.You might think that the cameras on t
  
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• Sen. Kelly sues Hegseth over penalties for 'illegal orders' video

  13-01-2026 04:42 via defenseone.com
  Arizona Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly sued Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the department on Monday for trying to demote Kelly’s retirement rank and pay after he appeared in a video where he and other lawmakers told service members they didn’t need to follow illegal orders. Kelly’s suit, filed in the federal district court for the District of Columbia, says attempts by the Trump administration to punish him violate the First Amendment, the separation of powers, due process
  
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• DHS adds office to fly, counter drones

  13-01-2026 02:00 via defenseone.com
  The Department of Homeland Security has created an office to operate drones and counter bad ones, with millions of dollars already slated to protect upcoming high-profile mass gatherings across the United States, agency officials said on Monday.The new Program Executive Office for Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems will “oversee strategic investments in drone and counter-drone technologies that can outpace evolving threats and tactics,&rdquo
  
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