
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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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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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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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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Matt Bell on readerly impulse, tastemakers, and the gatekeepers of publishing
feature An interview with the acclaimed author and scholar
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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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How our love of gadgets makes us hate each other
feature Apple and Google evangelists are nearly as zealous as their religious counterparts. And these tribal divisions will only get worse as technology gets better
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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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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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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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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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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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Cyber is a fraudulent weapon in a nonexistent war
feature Corporate fearmongers are eager to make a fortune from the phony threat of cyber-terror
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