Robert McNamara’s subservience to Lyndon Johnson led America to disaster in Vietnam.
Jeff Stein
Jeff Stein, a onetime case officer with U.S. Army Intelligence in South Vietnam, is a longtime Washington, D.C.–based national security reporter and the author of A Murder in Wartime: The Untold Spy Story That Changed the Course of the Vietnam War. In 2020, he founded SpyTalk: Intelligence for Thinking People, a Substack newsletter and podcast.
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New Kabul Scare: Terror Groups and Anti-Aircraft Missiles
No one knows the number of shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles left behind in Kabul. But the DoD-linked RAND Corp estimated 4,500 last year.
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The CIA Officer Who Became a “Formidable Foe” of the U.S. Government
Janine Brookner took on the KGB, sexist rivals, and Justice Department lawyers alike during a pioneering career as a spy and lawyer.
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Bill Burns’s CIA and the Roads Not Taken
The spy agency’s new chief gets a second chance to tell truth to power.
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Intel Panel Chair: Retool Spec Ops for China War
Arizona Congressman Ruben Gallego also aiming at using more military spies and rooting out extremists in the ranks.
