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A journey through the strange, semiprofessional world of volunteers and foreign fighters who, one year into Russia’s invasion, are risking everything to defeat the invaders.

US agencies have directly and indirectly trained and empowered Nazis and ultra-nationalists at home and abroad to fight Russians in Ukraine. This program follows the blueprint established by Western intelligence agencies in Afghanistan and Syria....

TJ COLES US agencies have directly and indirectly trained and empowered Nazis and ultra-nationalists at home and abroad to fight Russians in Ukraine. This program…

I'm a U.S. veteran. In early March, I went to Ukraine to train civilian volunteers how to fight.

combat hospital." she spoke at this years savannah book festival. >> dr. kraft received a phn clinical psychologist in 1996. during her psychology internship at drake medical center, she joined the navy as both an in-flight specialist and clinical psychologist. in february 2004, when her twins were 15 months old, she was deployed in iraq for seven months, with a marine surgical unit. her book, "rule number two," is about her experience in iraq. today she is a consultant for the navy an...

question nobody asked. i get asked one question all the time and its never, not been asked, knowing you asked. the question i get asked all the time is, how do you go from being a seal team six sniper to being a coward after taking care of people? does anybody here know that? its the same job. you just put people out of their misery in a different way. [laughter] thank you, guys. >> chuck hagel will deliver his first major address as defense secretary did at the national defense univer...

benjamin busch served the tours in iraq as a marine corps infantry officer. he recounts his childhood, his military career and adjustment to life upon his return from iraq next on booktv. this is just over an hour. >> thank you so much for coming out and supporting independent bookstores and in support of books. i wrote a book, kind of shocked actually, but its my great pleasure tonight my editor mcclelland who was pivotal in keeping under control as i tried to craft perhaps the most u...

>> i am going to read a couple of small selections from my book, which will give you a look. i exist in this book is a messenger. its not a portrait of me and my family, its not a biography. it is a portrait of my perspective and what is most important. what is most important is the reader. hopefully what i have done will guide you into your own memory. this is a book of memory. the power of the child and the childs belief. and how that child actors and i live on jan -- how that child ...

dangerous man is in the house, my editor matt, who was keeping me under control as i tried to craft perhaps the most unlikely structured book in the history of writing where i attempted to replicate very closely the way we remember which of course has no chronology, and she was kind enough to suggest each chapter might begin and chronologically progress towards its end, which is how it is in its final form. each chapter does reset to childhood following the themes. it does replicate in...

ive got two kids myself, and im never going to push em towards the military, and im never going to push em away because one great thing, the military, it is a volunteer force. and if youre going to be there, i want it to be because you want it. and youre going to understand that honor that goes into serving your country. as far as preparing them, i mean, they need to know that when you sign up to go into the military, theres a very high likelihood -- especially now -- youre going to go...