The D Brief: More DOD cuts; Trump’s Putin pivot; N. Korea’s failed launch; Qatar’s gift, accepted; And a bit more.

Space Force is losing 14% of its civilian workers to SecDef Pete Hegseth’s hurry-up effort to cut Pentagon headcount. That’s a higher proportion than the rest of the Defense Department, whose overall civilian workforce Hegseth is trying to cut by five to eight percent in ways that have caused widespread uncertainty and fear among federal employees.The loss of civilians is a “large hit” because the service heavily relies on them for acquisition, Chief of Space Operations G