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Target USA

Whether its terrorists, anarchists, cyber criminals or nation states, America has a target on its back. WTOP National Security Correspondent J.J. Green investigates the threats facing the U.S., the people behind them, the agencies fighting them and their impact on Americans.

Latest Episodes

Target USA — Episode 75: North Korea will have a nuclear capable ICBM within a year
Target USA — Episode 75: North Korea will have a nuclear capable ICBM within a year
The Defense Intelligence Agency has produced a new assessment that indicates the North Korean regime, led by Kim Jong Un, will have an intercontinental ballistic missile that can carry a nuclear weapon as early as 2018. Joby Warrick from The Washington Post, ...
Target USA — Ep 74: Robert Young Pelton: The future of terrorism, private armies and tracking Joseph Kony
Target USA — Ep 74: Robert Young Pelton: The future of terrorism, private armies and tracking Joseph Kony
Robert Young Pelton's book "Licensed to Kill" chronicled his time with a team of government-hired guns in the war on terror in 2003. Since then, he's found himself at the heart of numerous major news events -- from U.S. soldier Bowe ...
Target USA — Ep 73: Is IS group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi dead or alive? What’s next?
Target USA — Ep 73: Is IS group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi dead or alive? What’s next?
This week the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it had confirmation that IS group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was dead. It never produced any proof, but it is the first "credible " organization to go that far. On this program ...
Target USA — Ep 72: US Central Command facing tough challenges
Target USA — Ep 72: US Central Command facing tough challenges
Responsible for U.S. military activity in 20 countries, U.S. Central Command is faced with multiple difficult, generational challenges. The Taliban is surging in Afghanistan. The Islamic State group 's so-called "caliphate" is crumbling in Iraq and Syria. Al-Qaida in the ...
Target USA: Episode 71 — Exclusive interview with National Counterterrorism Center Director Nick Rasmussen
Target USA: Episode 71 — Exclusive interview with National Counterterrorism Center Director Nick Rasmussen
If the momentum of U.S.-led coalition is any indicator, the black flag of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) may be completely eradicated from Syria and Iraq in a matter of months. But Nick Rasmussen, the head ...
Target USA — Episode 70: Stopping the Taliban surge
Target USA — Episode 70: Stopping the Taliban surge
Defense Secretary James Mattis said on June 13 that the Taliban is surging. Whats driving the resurgence and what will the U.S. strategy to fight the Taliban look like? We dig into those questions, plus we get a look at the ...
Target USA — Episode 69: ISIS’ ‘caliphate’ crumbles
Target USA — Episode 69: ISIS’ ‘caliphate’ crumbles
ISIS is running out of territory, money, fighters and time. Some experts fear the damage has already been done. However, on this episode of Target USA, Operation for Inherent Resolve spokesman Col. Ryan Dillon says, "There is absolutely nowhere that they can ...
Target USA — Episode 68: Terror on London Bridge
Target USA — Episode 68: Terror on London Bridge
This riveting episode features the tense moments during the attacks in London, analysis of what happened, what Europol's European Counter Terrorism Centre's chief is doing about it, and the U.S. role in tackling a growing terrorism problem.
Target USA — Bugles Across America, making sure America’s fallen military personnel are treated with dignity
Target USA — Bugles Across America, making sure America’s fallen military personnel are treated with dignity
Often times people who served this country, some of whom who gave their lives, are laid to rest without a live rendition of taps. They end up with a prerecorded version. It was especially bad in the early-to-mid 2000s, when hundreds of ...
Target USA — Ep 66: Terror in Manchester, England
Target USA — Ep 66: Terror in Manchester, England
The suicide bombing at pop star Ariana Grande's concert on May 22 literally shook the ground all around Europe's second largest indoor arena. But it also sent shockwaves around the world because the attack on a concert where very young children were ...