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• Unions ask for injunction restoring collective bargaining at Defense

  23-07-2026 18:00 via defenseone.com
  
  A pair of federal employee unions on Monday urged a federal judge to issue a preliminary injunction restoring their collective bargaining agreements with the Defense Department, arguing that Secretary Pete Hegseth failed to follow the Trump administration’s own process for implementing two executive orders banning organized labor at most federal agencies.Earlier this month, the American Federation of Government Employees and National Federation of Federal Employees sued the Pentagon over t
  
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• Hegseth’s conflicting statements, evasions drain lawmakers’ patience, support

  23-07-2026 02:50 via defenseone.com
  
  Given a rare chance to press top Pentagon leaders, senators from both parties on Tuesday pleaded with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to outline a strategy for the U.S. war on Iran or simply to defend his previous statements about it.  Hegseth responded at times combatively or evasively. The meeting highlighted growing frustration over the costly war and the Trump administration’s multiple and shifting rationales for it—all of which appear to be reducing lawmakers’ appetite
  
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• Defense Business Brief: Dispatch from Farnborough

  23-07-2026 02:44 via defenseone.com
  
  LONDON—Private capital is becoming a key part of the defense industrial bases on both sides of the Atlantic, but distinct “cultural differences” in the UK may stymie progress, finance experts say. Asked what the UK could learn from how private capital has rallied behind defense tech in the U.S. in recent years, Fiona Walters, CEO of Serco’s UK and Europe business, cited a sense of enthusiasm to move quickly—and to persist even when things get hard. “
  
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• The antifa terrorism threat the Trump administration describes does not exist

  23-07-2026 02:35 via defenseone.com
  
  The State Department on July 16, 2026, hosted what officials billed as a ministerial on the resurgence of left-wing political terrorism.Secretary of State Marco Rubio invited representatives from more than 60 countries to Washington to hear an argument that many of them appear not to believe: that a transnational far-left terrorist movement called antifa threatens the democratic world. At the event, allies were asked to mobilize against that enemy despite nations li
  
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