Latest articles by David W. Brown
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Does America really need a Space Force?
The Explainer Trump wants to militarize space. What would that even look like?
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Donald Trump's $10 trillion climate mistake
opinion Trump and his fellow climate change skeptics claim that the science is unsettled while simultaneously proposing to end studies that would settle it. This will cost us — big league.
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The odyssey of OSIRIS-REx
feature Inside mankind's 1.35 billion kilometer mission to kiss an asteroid that might destroy us
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How Alexander Hamilton solved America's gun problem — 228 years ago
opinion The case for well-regulated militias
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Here's the latest travesty of secrecy from the NSA
opinion The NSA is refusing to release its own ethical and legal guidelines, calling them "top secret." This is alarming.
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How U.S. government employees blew $150 million renting little palaces for themselves in Afghanistan
The Explainer Surprise, surprise: It's the same dopes who blew $43 million on a gas station
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Why I'm suing the State Department over Hillary Clinton's email scandal
opinion The State Department will let you keep classified documents — they'll even install a safe for you to protect them. But only if your client's name is Clinton.
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The scientists who conquered Pluto
feature The global response to New Horizons is more than a celebration of one mission; it's the celebration of science
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Believe it or not, we are living in a golden age of space exploration
feature The feat of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft should stand alongside the taming of the oceans and the first flight of the Wright Brothers
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The amazing triumph of Windows 8
feature Eat your heart out, Apple: Windows 8 is a vision of computing that is not only thoroughly re-imagined, but in many ways superior to anything else out there
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The CIA's shark-jumping censorship of former agents
feature Ex-intel officials are required to submit speeches, book reviews, essays, and movie scripts to be scrubbed of classified material. And often, the censors go overboard
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You've been designated a foreign terrorist organization. Now what?
feature The U.S. officially labels members of the Haqqani network terrorists. Don't expect that to turn the tide in Afghanistan
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What Iraq's chaos tells us about Afghanistan's coming spiral of drug-fueled violence and despair
feature Afghanistan is a mess, and we're preparing to declare victory and go home. But if Iraq is any indication, we'll be back — and soon.
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Why the world is preparing for war in Mali
feature Regional volatility, imported weapons from Libya, and a poisonous religious ideology have turned the West African nation into a new Afghanistan
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How American inaction is killing Syrians
feature 45,000 Syrians are dead. And all Western leaders do is talk
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How the U.S. military's idiotic tribal mentality leaves us vulnerable to cyber catastrophe
feature Our leaders could solve this problem. But they won't.
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Obama is right to oppose new sanctions on Iran
feature The White House's move is a good first step toward bringing Iran to the bargaining table
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The perks and perils of our newly indexed society
feature Paper documents have become unnecessary relics. But when everything is digital and searchable, it comes at a steep cost to your privacy
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Syria's PR campaign failed — and so did America's policy
feature Bashar al-Assad is on his last legs, but his campaign to crush the rebellion in Syria got a boost from Washington's astonishingly weak stance
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How NATO spent $200 million teaching Afghan cops to read — and failed
feature Well, Afghanistan is a burgeoning narco-criminal state that is being fueled by American blood and tax dollars, so...
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The irresponsibly stupid and dangerous camouflage patterns of the U.S. military
feature You'd think the military would want uniform patterns that keep its members safe. And yet somehow, "distinctiveness" has trumped safety
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America's embarrassingly redundant and entangled cyber security complex
feature Thank goodness no serious observer of electronic warfare considers a cyber-9/11 possible, let alone imminent
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The secret labs where America's most futuristic weapons are built
feature These days, conflicts aren't necessarily fought by gun-wielding soldiers, but instead by stealthy computer viruses and complex code-breaking computers
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The stupidity of how the U.S. government classifies secrets
feature In the name of national security, the feds spend $11 billion a year classifying things as secrets that often aren't really secrets at all
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