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In the early days of the pandemic, Dawn Riegner, a chemist at an elite college, found she had time on her hands because of the empty classrooms. So she filled her downtime with an explosive diversion.
A US military officer reports on the increasing incidence of insubordination, desertion and rebellion in the US army over the course of the Vietnam War. While we obviously don't agree with the officer's political perspective, the article contains lots of useful information on the GI resistance movement during the Vietnam War.
Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist for The Cipher Brief. He spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on topics from nuclear weapons to politics. He is the author of Blown to Hell: America’s Deadly Betrayal of the Marshall Islanders (releasing in November 2021) OPINION — The current clash between Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark A. Milley and former-President Trump reminds me a bit of the Army’s confrontation back in 1954 with the late-Senator Joseph McCarthy. The issue 66 years ago, was McCarthy’s claim th...
Today, I’m joined by Congressman Mike Gallagher, who represents the 8th District in Wisconsin. In this episode, we delve into critical infrastructure security from the perspective of national security. Congressman Mike Gallagher: I mean, in the past, we sort of had the advantage of basic geography, and 1000s of miles of oceans, and friendly neighbors to protect us. But in the cyber domain, those geographic distances are essentially meaningless…..we’ve seen have been kind of a huge wake up call for me and a few other legislators who tend to focus on these issues. Bryson Bort: We talk t...
He helped Trump bring American hostages home. Now he's working for Biden. Jenna McLaughlin © Provided by Yahoo! News Roger Carstens, special presidential envoy for hostage affairs, at the State Department in February. (Eric Kayne for Yahoo News) WASHINGTON — Just days before Christmas last year, Roger Carstens, a former Green Beret turned diplomat, was thousands of miles away from home. He had flown to Saudi Arabia in a last-ditch attempt to attend the trial of two U.S. citizens, but he also hoped to meet Dr. Walid Fitaihi, a U.S.-educated physician who moonlighted as a m...