D. B. Grady
Autor(a) de Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry
About the Author
Image credit: David W. Brown in Times Square, 2014
Obras por D. B. Grady
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Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Grady, D. B.
- Nome legal
- Brown, David Wayne
- Outros nomes
- Grady, D.B.
Grady, D B
Grady, DB
Brown, David W. - Data de nascimento
- 1979
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Locais de residência
- Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
- Educação
- Louisiana State University (BS ∙ Computer Science)
University of Arkansas at Monticello (MFA|Creative Writing) - Ocupações
- freelance writer
- Organizações
- Authors Guild
Association of Writers & Writing Programs
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- D.B. Grady is the pseudonym of author David W. Brown. He is the coauthor of Deep State: Inside the Government Secrecy Industry (Wiley, 2013) and The Command: Deep Inside the President's Secret Army (Wiley, 2012). He is a correspondent for The Atlantic and a regular contributor to The Week and Mental Floss. Other publications include short stories and essays.
David holds a master of fine arts in creative writing from the University of Arkansas at Monticello and a bachelor of science from Louisiana State University. He is a former U.S. Army paratrooper and a veteran of Afghanistan. He is a member of the Authors Guild and the Association of Writers & Writing Programs.
David lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana with his wife and family.
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- 3
- Membros
- 108
- Popularidade
- #179,297
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Críticas
- 12
- ISBN
- 7
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- 2
It is always interesting how basic tenets of combat get re-invented and then lost, and so on in cycles. This is what happened with JSOC - in a move very much like one taken by Israel, steps were made to make a nimble and deadly corps capable of striking wherever it is necessary. I mention Israel here because this country is in almost constant war footing with its neighbors from the very beginning and to be able to cope with it, Israel had to create force able to match the more numerous enemies. And this happened by combining all the intelligence and combat resources at the disposal of relatively small security force.
It takes a very capable commanders (generals Flynn and McChrystal) to break the inter-agency barriers and pursue the goal of creating small and versatile strike force. When they finally enabled the forces to share information and participate in combined operations JSOC started to grow and its special operations capabilities grew almost exponentially. They pretty soon became force multiplier and enabled the rest of deployed forces to fight more efficiently.
Author shows how rivalry remained but (hah, could not guess) on management level while on operational level things continued to flourish.
Final few chapters tackle the question of where is JSOC aiming for in the future. Heavy utilization in CT operations seem to be a sole focuse of the entire command. But in light of events after the book was published it is visible that JSOC certainly has place in the modern world. But with such a capable force extra level of care is required to avoid issues that happened in the past (1980's events described in excellent book "Secret Warriors", especially Iran Contra affair that blemished US SOCOM for decades).
I have to admit that I am slightly surprised by some of the comments where people are shocked by covert JSOC operations outside of Middle East (namely China). It is like being surprised by India's role in Sri Lanka conflict with Tamil's, or constant Pakistan's paramilitary operations in Punjab, or both Pakistan's and India's secret war with China, China's covert wars especially against ROC, or North/South Korea infiltrations, European stand behind armies, or [not so] secret war against narco cartels in Central and South America....... and so on and so on. I like it when people decide to think that nations love each other. There are only and there will be only alliances and these are always temporary (remember the CIA industrial espionage affair in France at the start of 90's). And forces used to combat these silent wars are forces exactly like JSOC.
Excellent book, highly recommended to everyone interested in military and special operations in particular.… (mais)