He showed off the gilded interior of his planecalling me over to inspect a Renoir on its walls, beckoning me to lean in closely to see . Torture is a crime against humanity, but coercion is an issue that is rightly handled with a wink, or even a touch of hypocrisy; it should be banned but also quietly practiced. Many of them had been involved in running elections in their states and counties for any number of years, and nothing like this had ever happened, nor had anyone ever really questioned their honesty or integrity. McChrystals remarkably successful efforts were less of a factor in reversing the wars direction than General David Petraeuss surge, in 2007. Three more people died. He currently lives in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, the Mushroom Capital of the World. Because of its sub-rosa nature, Special Ops has not compelled the same kind of reckoningand, in fact, may foster the illusion that a strategic framework is not necessary. 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Most Americans are unaware that it has been active in a country until the announcement that its forces are being withdrawn. People often accuse the military of throwing money at problems, Bucky Burruss, the former Delta Force officer, told me. Norm said, Whoa, whoa, is this a training tape from back at Bragg? Thomas recounted. Money, McChrystal recalled, was available for whatever he needed. What she was saying was something considerably narrower, which was that she felt that her background and her gender would make her more empathetic and perhaps wiser in deciding cases involving sexual and racial discrimination. And I think, well, it will be very hard - it would be very hard - on a large scale to sway them from doing anything other than counting the votes accurately and reporting them as such. The early Delta Forces administrative staff was skeletal. From 1979 to 2003, Bowden was a staff writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer. German special forces had provided a snarea net made of sturdy elastic that could capture even a speeding vehicle. Former Florida State Seminoles football coach Bobby Bowden is his first cousin once removed.[3]. He has written for Men's Journal, The Atlantic Monthly, Sports Illustrated, and Rolling Stone over . Mark Bowden October 2009 Issue Subscribe Now I f you happened to be watching a television news channel on May 26, the day President Obama nominated U.S. The Kuwaiti ships had to be boarded and protected, which was not the kind of work the regular Navy did. Mr. MARK BOWDEN (National Correspondent, Atlantic Magazine): Thank you, Rebecca. Hostage rescue, manhunting, search-and-destroy missionsthese had become the U.S. militarys active pursuits worldwide. And considering that many of them were Republicans and some of them Trump supporters, I think it was particularly surprising and stinging that they were being accused of falsifying their own election results. GURA: You mentioned Sheryl Guy. Before I met him back in 1996, I felt bad for him. Sometimes Mark goes by various nicknames including Mark Biowden, Mark R Bowden and Mark Russell Bowden. The mission remains one of the most humiliating failures in American military annalsa failure that became the impetus for expanding Special Ops. And that gives me hope for the country. Mr. BOWDEN: My pleasure, Rebecca. Apart from the comical ego, the errors, and the self-serving bluster, what you get from Trump are commonplace ideas pronounced as received wisdom. Questions would be raised later about whether these attacks were taking out real missile launchers or decoys fielded by Saddam, but theres no doubt that the results achieved were fast and dramatic, and kept Israel off the battlefield. And, Matt, I want to ask you about her in particular. Bowden worked in many fields including humanitarian coordination in conflict and post conflict countries, development and recovery assistance. It risks evolving into the very self-justifying, calcified bureaucracy that it was designed to supersede. In The Men Who Stare at Goats by Jon Ronson, Bowden's article was noted as a reference to the CIA's Project ARTICHOKE. Bowden believes that young people are just as drawn to "deep" journalism as other generations of people have been. Execute! he ordered. Nevertheless, the hard-charging young developer appears to be studying the older mans pate-management techniques with an eye, as always, to the future. Mr. BOWDEN: Well, I just think that, you know, we are, as a society, adapting to an enormous, rapid change in technology. He explained the situation to me in a way that both made his position understandable and underlined the institutional imperatives that push in one direction only. The authoritative record of NPRs programming is the audio record. Its intelligence network and aerial assets would give Kurdish, Iraqi, and Syrian fighters an overwhelming advantage against ISIS. Tony Thomas, a former head of SOCOM, told me last year. McChrystal is not Sun Tzu. It was the brainchild of Colonel Charlie Beckwith, a profane, hard-drinking, stubbornly tenacious Army officer who had served briefly with the British Special Air Service in Malaya. In Pennsylvania he called into a state legislative hearing where they were entertaining claims of fraud. The clip wasn't unearthed by a professional journalist. But I think in discussions with me where I raised these issues with them and explained to them what the difference was, in my opinion, and what the motivations and ethics of journalists are as opposed to those of someone who's a political activist, they retreated from calling themselves journalists and now no longer do. He has written for Men's Journal, The Atlantic Monthly, Sports Illustrated, and Rolling Stone over . And any - I think any journalist looking at those comments in context would find them unremarkable. There is still a lack of trust in the way elections are administered and the way these machines work. Who sifted through hours of archived video at the university's Web site to find it? ROBERTS: Do you see any difference between this and a video press release? His latest outrageous edict on banning all Muslims from entering the country comes as no surprise to me based on the man I met nearly 20 years ago. The advent of nuclear weapons, in the 1940s, presented leaders with urgent ethical and strategic imperatives. Ad Choices, Charity Begins at Home: The Saga of Royal Rent and Monarchs As Landlords, Donald Trump Still Collects Six-Figure Pension from SAG-AFTRA: Report. Inside Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushners Gilded Florida ParadiseFar From Donald Trump or 2024, Chaos lingers at the periphery, but the Trump-Kushner marriage is thriving in exile. This past November, an NPR Marist Poll found that 75% of Republicans say Trump has a legitimate claim that fraud changed the results. Written more than a year before the violations of prisoners were revealed at Abu Ghraib and other detention centers, he wrote, in part: The Bush Administration has adopted exactly the right posture on the matter. Then he asked, What do you mean?, These guys just arent McChrystal thought he was about to say heroes but had stopped himself. David Gura speaks with journalists Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague about their new book "The Steal: The Attempt to Overturn the 2020 Election and the People Who Stopped It.". His death was important in the moment, but it also illustrated the limits of even a highly skillful application of force. It is also smart not to discuss the matter with anyone. ROBERTS: You're listening to TALK OF THE NATION from NPR News. And yet even a versatile knife can do only so much. But it's also laziness. GURA: Those are supporters of then-President Trump, and that's the rally cry they used while trying to prevent Congress and the vice president from certifying the election of Joe Biden. The signature. From her greed is good heyday to her post-divorce denouement cavorting with a series of freaky Italian lovers, it was Ivana, all along, who gilded the Trump name. you see how the national political priority of anti-communism in the 1950s and '60s effectively rooted out people in . As SOCOMs leaders recognize, one cannot defeat a culturally rooted movement, such as al-Shabaab, by occasionally bumping off its leaders. Bobby Bowden's vote for Trump By Jason Peirce No matter a person's lifelong integrity, if he dares to support Trump, the left will instantly malign him as a racist even when all the facts show. ROBERTS: Well, of course, this - the rise of this, sort of, taking a video from another source and throwing it up on the air coincides with both the gaping maw of the 24-hour news cycle, but also, you know, lack of resources in those news rooms. Stop the steal. He left the choice to her, saying only, I want it really rich. Special Ops is lodged today under the Special Operations Command, or SOCOM, a combatant command that reports directly to the secretary of defense. It was on the occasion of a - an annual talk honoring an Hispanic faculty member at Berkeley. And so he found it without actually too much trouble. Silverman closes by listing three takeaways for newsrooms, one of which is, "Whether or not you like the tone or approach taken by an outside critic, you still have a responsibility to examine claims of factual error or ethical malfeasance," and he notes further that it might have been easier for T&T and Vanity Fair to deal with the issue if they had spoken to one another directly. It works to locate hidden nuclear-missile sites in North Korea. Sen Tim Scott on Wednesday announced the launch of an exploratory political campaign for the Republican nomination; in doing so, he also previewed what is likely to be the defining weakness of his campaign. Bowden has produced a fascinating story that is a harsh description of rough justice in the world. By NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images. But within the military, it was seen as an embarrassment. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, and a 1973 graduate of Loyola College in Maryland, Bowden was a staff writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer from 1979-2003, and has won numerous awards. And they join us now. His trademark techniques are used by top leaders and political players around the world who want to gain an advantage beyond wordswhen they speak. That doesn't make it completely illegitimate, but it does raise questions in my mind, as a journalist, that I would like to have answered before I would use that material. Over a long weekend on assignment for Playboy magazine, Mark Bowden found that behind the garish Trump faade lies only more ugliness. But as McChrystal acknowledged, there would always be skeptics, within SOCOM and elsewhere, who believed that we ought to go back to being a tiny group of people. And, as he also acknowledged, a revolution in Special Ops tactics isnt the same thing as strategic wisdom, or success. As Obama explained when I spoke with him after the bin Laden mission: Ultimately, none of this stuff works if were not partnering effectively with other countries, if were not engaging in smart diplomacy, if were not trying to change our image in the Muslim world to reduce recruits to extremism. From June 2012 through March 2013, the legal blog Trials & Tribulations (T&T), which reports on California trials and legal affairs, ran a seven-part series titled "Fact Checking Mark Bowden's Curious Vanity Fair Article on Stephanie Lazarus". And perhaps because Special Ops is such a flexible tool, that growth has enabled the U.S. to multiply the way it uses force abroad without much consideration of overarching strategy. And I wonder where you see us going from here, given the trust - the lack of trust - that was infused because of this? Obviously, we dont want to do this, said Major Lewis Bucky Burruss, Beckwiths operations officer, as he briefed the brass in the Tank. Shes a genius!who had selected a sampling of fabrics for him to choose from, all different shades of gold. He has taught journalism and creative writing at Loyola University Maryland, and was Distinguished Writer in Residence at the University of Delaware from 2013 to 2017. For Mark Bowden, in the end, this book is about the arrogance of power. ROBERTS: On the other hand, the fact that these people had an agenda and a political point of view doesn't necessarily make it invalid that, you know, ACORN did something illegal and immoral. The if we must plan he outlined was a bold and daring Rube Goldberg scenario. The elections are very decentralized, and local officials are, for the most part, deeply patriotic and honest. Happy to keep American forces below the radar, Obama was eager to act when the occasion was ripe. Plus new fiction by Paul Yoon, pandemic merch, Beirut after the blast, Kazuo Ishiguros radiant robot, Sam Siftons no-recipe recipes, and more. Much of SOCOMs action takes place in secret. Last week, a video made the news rounds - two conservative activists posing as a pimp and a prostitute, soliciting tax advice from ACORN. Why is - considering it was a video of her in her own words, what was unfair about it? In less than 24 hours she had corrected it and said, I've made a mistake; and that's all it is. If interrogators step over the line from coercion to outright torture, they should be held personally responsible. Ban all Muslims from entering the country? Thomas was second in command on that mission, under JSOCs Admiral William McRaven, who became SOCOM commander later that year. To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Barring the outbreak of a catastrophic war between major powers, SOCOM will likely remain a primary way America projects force, one that is well suited to the global, varied, and collaborative nature of war in the 21st century. At the conclusion of the briefing, he recalled, Obama made two points: One, We dont know enough about the problem. And two, Maybe the best thing we can do is mow the grassmeaning, manage the problem around its edges, quietly. There have been all of these audits - this has really dragged on well past after Inauguration Day and well into President Biden's - first-year President Biden's term. GURA: Much of the book centers on an assortment of strategies by Trump and his allies, particularly Rudy Giuliani. Beckwiths stock abruptly rose. It was the first time that we really started to see them in the field, he recalled. The bottom line was plain: Were not ready. Theyre not like we were., What are you talking about? McChrystal replied. If I remember correctly, she's somebody who made a mistake, acknowledged the mistake, worked quickly to correct that mistake, and, yet it didn't end there. Trump remains the only person I have ever written about who tried to bribe me. How is this different? And people noticed. . Mr. BOWDEN: young people who did it. Mark's ethnicity is unknown, whose political affiliation is currently a registered Republican; and religious views are listed as unknown. In 1987, Stavridis was a lieutenant commander on a cruiser stationed in the Persian Gulf as part of Operation Earnest Will, the largest naval-convoy mission since World War II. No. Today, SOCOMs central command, at MacDill Air Force Base, in Tampa, Florida, is large and complex. Using nuclear weapons? Currently, Mark is married. Pitbull is a pal, Carbone is for dinner, and. The Florida governor is the Fox-loving, lib-owning successor-in-waiting to Donald Trumps cult of personality. The researchers, Eitan Hersh, formerly a political scientist at Yale, and Gabrielle Malina, a graduate student at Harvard, identified about 180,000 clergy and were able to match about 130,000 to . Or until something goes wrongas in Niger in 2017, when four Special Ops soldiers were killed in an ambush. The comment about being a wise Latina woman and thereby being able to make superior judgment, which was aired universally, was actually the second part of a paragraph that began by looking at a case involving sexual or racial discrimination. So it's clear that the line between truth and lie is something that runs through every human heart, that it's not just a matter of partisan politics. The services fought it and fought it and fought it, at every level.. Ron DeSantis: The Making and Remaking (and Remaking) of a MAGA Heir. Their new book is called "The Steal: The Attempt To Overturn The 2020 Election And The People Who Stopped It." So long as you did not disappoint himand it was never clear how to avoid doing soyou were gold. GURA: Something that smelled - and Matthew, the root of this, as you write in the book, was distrust. She became a piece of the larger stratagem. Author Mark Bowden says the capture of Hue, Vietnam, was part of a wave of well-planned Communist attacks that shocked American commanders and helped turn U.S. public opinion against the war.. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. Mark Robert Bowden (/badn/; born July 17, 1951) is an American journalist and writer. He remembers attending a military conference in 2007. Along the story, Bowden makes clear show more content When the Tehran embassy was seized, Delta Force had yet to undertake a mission, and the challenge posed was beyond any imagined for it. Nevertheless, it's not journalism. Big ships, strategic bombers, nuclear submarines, flaring missiles, mass armiesthese still represent the conventional imagery of American power, and they absorb about 98 percent of the Pentagons budget. As for the second quote, it was - she was on a panel at Duke University. Thomass platoon was part of an assault on the Calivigny barracks, where several hundred Cuban and Grenadian forces had reportedly retreated for a last stand. She had an error - switched about 3,000 votes, I think it was, from Trump to Biden, immediately realized what she had done. It occurred to him: This is where we are going in the future. ROBERTS: So is this a one-way curve? Utilizing SOCOM, the U.S. was still in the fight, just not openly in the lead, and no longer carrying the full load. The Navy pilots flying the helicopters across the desert had not even conducted the practice runs the planners had requested. I mean, it's a revelation, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with what they did. Mark's ethnicity is Caucasian, whose political affiliation is currently a registered Republican; and religious views are listed as Christian. At the same time, the insularity and elitism of these units have bred a culture with elements that some of their own leaders, to their credit, have described as troubling, and that have, in certain instances, evidenced contempt for the traditional values of Americas armed forces. Thomas was then a Ranger company commander. He said in March 2009: "Nothing will ever replace language as the medium of thought, so nothing will replace the well-written, originally-reported story, or the well-reasoned essay."[10]. And he was trying to make a good impression. In the October 2003 issue of The Atlantic, Bowden's article "The Dark Art of Interrogation"[8] advocated an official ban on all forms of "coercive" interrogation but argued that they should still be practiced in secret and should go unpunished if revealed. How did Special Ops come to occupy such a central role in American military operationsand even foreign policy? But Carter wanted a military option. Gunplay was a possibility, so Thomas had a list of strict no-go scenarios, among them the presence of local police, Russian troops, or children. Donald Trumps words and policies were unpredictable, but SOCOMs mission continued to enlarge. [4] This series disputes elements of Bowden's July 2012 Vanity Fair article, "A Case So Cold It Was Blue". Now, once again, you know, I think it's very important for viewers of their video to know who they were, what their motivations were. And I know this is on tape, that I should never say that, because we don't make law. Mark Bowden, thanks so much. So what Sotomayor was saying was not that her gender and her ethnicity made her superior across the board. If the Israelis entered the war, it would offend Arab states and possibly cripple the coalition. Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague have a new book called "The Steal," documenting the rise of this conspiracy across the country and the lives destroyed by it. Mark's relationship status is married. 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