13-01-2026 17:09 via defenseone.com

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

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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