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Black Hawk Down
Staff Sgt. Matt Eversmann’s lanky frame was fully extended, hanging from a Blackhawk helicopter 70 feet above the streets of Mogadishu…How to Deal With North Korea
There are no good options. But some are worse than others.The Last Ace
A small F-15 Eagle is visible in the distance, but larger and more immediate, filling the center of the shot, staring right at the viewer, is an incoming missile…The Professor of War
The unceasing drive, groundbreaking methods, and darkest moments of a four-star rebel.The Kabul-ki Dance
Inside the cockpit with the pilots and wizzos of the 391st Fighter Squadron, the top guns of America’s air war in Afghanistan.The Enemy Within
Microsoft security programmers came up with the name Conficker, which stuck partly because ficker is German slang for “motherfucker,” and the worm was certainly that.Misc.
The Man Who Broke Atlantic City
Don Johnson won nearly $6 million playing blackjack in one night at Atlantic City’s Tropicana casino. Not long before that, he’d taken the Borgata for $5 million and Caesars for $4 million. Here’s how.Dumb Kids’ Class
The benefits of being underestimated by the nuns at St. Petronille’sThe Measured Man
Larry Smarr, an astrophysicist turned computer scientist is charting his every bodily function in minute detail. What he’s discovering may be the future of health care.The Case of the Vanishing Blonde
How could a 21-year-old woman disappear from her hotel room, unseen by security cameras?
Interrogation
The Dark Art of Interrogation
A survey of the landscape of persuasion.The Ploy
The inside story of how the interrogators of Task Force 145 cracked Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s inner circle—without resorting to torture—and hunted down al-Qaeda’s man in Iraq.Books
Black Hawk Down
An operation gone badly wrong in the snipers nest of Mogadishu.Worm
The amazing story of the world’s first digital war.Killing Pablo
On the hunt for Pablo Escobar, leader of the Medellin cartel.Guests of the Ayatollah
Inside the Iran hostage crisis.See also…
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