Latest articles by David W. Brown
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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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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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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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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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INTERVIEW: Robert Greenwald's war on drones
feature In Pakistan, "people are angry, upset, hurting, grieving. This is not something that makes sense either morally or from a national security point of view."
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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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If Israel bombs Iran: Forecasting the next 24 hours
feature Absent total war, the day after an Israeli attack on Iran would see a flurry of conventional spycraft, cyber-snooping, and frantic diplomacy
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Drone warfare... in the Philippines?
feature A New York Times report on a secret U.S. missile strike threatens to damage America's relationship with a key ally
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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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How Google fights China on America's behalf
feature While cybersecurity legislation languishes in congressional committees, the search king mounts a full-frontal assault on Chinese hackers
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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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Inside the secret world of America's top eavesdropping spies
feature Officially, the Special Collection Service doesn't exist. Unofficially, its snoops travel the world intercepting private messages and cracking high-tech encryptions
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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