December 1972. John Wayne sees a homeless veteran standing in the rain holding a cardboard sign. Wayne drives past. Two blocks later, he…
November 1952. A communist walks up to John Wayne in a crowded Hollywood restaurant and calls him a fascist. Everyone freezes. They expect…
The hospital hallway is dark at 2:00 in the morning. Patricia Morgan has been a night nurse for 12 years. She knows the…
The folder arrived on Lieutenant Commander Bradley Vicker’s desk at 0632 on a Thursday morning in March of 2009. He had been in…
The last line of the memo read, “We thought the warning was about protecting them. It was about protecting our assumptions. They did…
Marcus Brennan watched the thermal feed from the Predator drone circling at 4,000 m above Sangin Valley. The screen showed four heat signatures…
Major Marcus Thornton did not believe in ghosts. He believed in satellite imaging, in thermal optics worth $47,000 per unit, in precisiong guided…
Marcus Henderson did not believe in ghosts. He believed in satellite imagery, in real time thermal tracking from predator drones circling at 20,000…
In early March, Thornton participated in a planning session examining lessons learned from Desert Storm. One proposal was to adapt SAS methods for…
Picture this. An American general looks at a group of unshaven Brits in torn jackets and jeans who just rolled up to his…