Interviews, Special Operations Teams
SEAL Team Six Somalia Mission
By: CommandPosts | January 25, 2012
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News broke this morning with the second successful mission from the usually secretive SEAL Team Six in the last year. Early Tuesday evening about two dozen troops from SEAL Team Six parachuted into Mogadishu, Somalia and took out nine Somali kidnappers, freeing two hostages who had been held since October.

We spoke today with Navy SEAL sniper head instructor Brandon Webb about this dangerous mission and his insight into the role of SEAL Team Six.

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Interviews
Matthew Alexander, author of Kill or Capture: How a Special Operations Task Force Took Down a Notorious al Qaeda Terrorist
Matthew Alexander
By: CommandPosts | February 4, 2011
Matthew Alexander is an eighteen-year veteran of the Air Force and Air Force Reserves and a four-time combat veteran of Bosnia, Kosovo, and Iraq.

As a former senior military interrogator, he conducted or supervised over 1,300 interrogations in Iraq and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for his achievements.

He is the author of Kill of Capture and How to Break a Terrorist.

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Read an excerpt from To Kill or Capture. [More...]
Interviews
Stephen Coonts
By: CommandPosts | January 21, 2011
We want to thank Stephen Coonts for doing this capsule interview with us. We caught him in between flights, on his way to promote his new book. Thank You, Stephen!

What inspired the plot of Deep Black: Death Wave?

We were looking for an exciting plot for the Deep Black team. The Canary Island fault is well known. I used the threat of nukes on a fault in Fortunes of War, my first novel for St Martins. [More...]
Interviews
Scott Oden
By: CommandPosts | January 12, 2011
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Hailing from the hills of rural North Alabama, Scott Oden’s fascination with far-off places began when his oldest brother introduced him to the staggering and savage vistas of Robert E. Howard and Harold Lamb.

Though Oden started writing his own tales at the age of fourteen, it would be many years before anything would come of it. In the meantime, he had a brief and tempestuous fling with academia before retiring to the private sector, where he worked the usual roster of odd jobs—from delivering pizza to stacking paper in the bindery of a printing company to clerking at a video store. Nowadays, Oden writes full-time from his family home near Somerville.

The Lion of Cairo is his third novel. [More...]
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LT. COL. Anthony Shaffer
By: CommandPosts | October 16, 2010
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"There was confirmation of terabytes of data being destroyed relating to the ABLE DANGER project. So with that as an assumed fact, that data was destroyed, how could anyone have a conclusion with such certainty that 'ABLE DANGER did not identify Mohammed Atta'?" [More...]
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General Hugh Shelton
By: CommandPosts | October 14, 2010
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I wrote the book for four basic reasons, the first being to present an unbiased, accurate historical record—one that reflects the unsanitized raw truth without resorting to gossip or revision of the facts as they actually played out. The second reason is to give hope and inspiration to others facing adversarial situations. [More...]
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Dwight Jon Zimmerman and John D. Gresham
By: CommandPosts | October 6, 2010
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Common threads connect Medal of Honor recipients: "One is that when the time came, they all acted with the goal of trying to save their buddies or the troops under their command. The second is that all did so knowing that their actions were either severely life-threatening or life ending." [More...]
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