One of the nice things about working in counterintelligence is the acceptance of the notion that some things are not quite what they seem to be. (One of the bad things is that it can make you weird, even slightly...
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What if everything you know is wrong?
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Drone of Honor
Yesterday the Pentagon announced the first new combat decoration for the U.S. military in sixty-nine years, the Distinguished Warfare Medal. The creation of the DWM has caused some controversy, since it’s not exactly a “combat” decoration as it will be...
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Thinking about Chris Kyle
Today Texas is having something of a state funeral for native son Chris Kyle, the famous Navy sniper who was senselessly murdered at a shooting range by a clearly unbalanced Marine veteran whom he was trying to help. There has...
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American Hero, Soviet Agent: Lt.Col. Linn Farish, OSS
Over at his blog, Tom Ricks recently noted that in March 1943, President Roosevelt observed presciently about the future of Yugoslavia: “the Croats and Serbs had nothing in common and that it is ridiculous to try to force two such...
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Is East Asia about to experience its “July Crisis”?
Recent tensions between China and its neighbors, particularly Japan, over disputed islands have Asia-watchers aflutter. The prospect of a war, of any sort, between the PRC and Japan has observers of all stripes in overdrive, not least those who pay...
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Update on Canada’s Big Beta Spy
The Royal Canadian Navy’s Sub-Lieutenant Jeffrey Delisle was today sentenced to twenty years in jail for espionage on behalf of Russia (or a bit over eighteen years counting time served), and he will have to pay back at least some...