The D Brief: DOD workforce, whipsawed; Russia cool on ceasefire; Industrial-policy nom; Gitmo migrants sent back to US; And a bit more.

Confusion, fear as changes whipsaw Defense workforce. A number of DOD civilian employees, speaking anonymously for fear of retribution, described to Defense One’s Meghann Myers what the first few weeks under SecDef Pete Hegseth’s leadership have been like for them.On the personnel cuts: “Understaffing was so rampant already – ‘do more with less’ has been a thing since at least the early 2000s,” an Army civilian said. On the firing of probationary em