David W. Brown
David W. Brown is coauthor of Deep State (John Wiley & Sons, 2013) and The Command (Wiley, 2012). He is a regular contributor to TheWeek.com, Vox, The Atlantic, and mental_floss. He can be found online here.
Latest articles by David W. Brown
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How Microsoft is failing Windows 8
feature The company's brilliant engineers must feel like velociraptors handcuffed to brontosauruses
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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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The Pentagon's bafflingly backward priorities
feature We can't afford to help veterans pay for school. We can afford missile defense systems that don't work. Brilliant!
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In praise of Prince Harry, soldier
The Explainer Whatever his flaws, the extraordinarily brave prince represents not only the best of England, but in many ways, the best of his generation
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Why women soldiers don't belong on the front lines
feature However unfair, however much it pains us to admit it, in some areas, men and women are simply not equal
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Boston is a tragedy, but it's not your tragedy
feature The violence on Monday was sickening. But unless you were actually there, it could not have "almost" happened to you
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INTERVIEW: War on Whistleblowers' director Robert Greenwald
feature "Here are people who are putting it on the line, and who don't have a lot to gain, unless you believe in things like values, truth, and democracy"
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The government's ludicrous obsession with secrecy
feature There's little point in refusing to acknowledge the existence of drones, or "unpublishing" widely known information
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This lawsuit could destroy FOIA
feature These days, every sunlight mechanism available to the public should be guarded jealously
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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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10 things you didn't know about the president's secret army
feature They're everywhere, and they're completely covert
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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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Matt Bell on readerly impulse, tastemakers, and the gatekeepers of publishing
feature An interview with the acclaimed author and scholar
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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 Hamas' rockets and Israel's missile-defense system work
feature The fate of the escalating conflict in the Middle East rests primarily on how effective machinery on both sides turns out to be
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The evolution of SEAL Team Six
feature How the celebrated unit went from being a ragtag band of outlaws to America's go-to guys
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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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How one inspector general is fighting fraud and waste in Afghanistan
feature John Sopko has done his job so well it's hard to believe he's been allowed to keep it
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Why the CIA should get out of the killing business. Again.
feature With the top job at the CIA now open, it's time to redirect the agency's mission away from paramilitary activity and back to intelligence
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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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