Podcasts about Tora Bora

Dans cette saison de La Traque, revivez l'une des plus grandes chasses à l'homme du 21e siècle, celle du terroriste Ben Laden. À la tête d'Al-Qaïda, l'une des plus grandes associations terroristes du début du 21e siècle, il a commandité les attentats des tours du World Trade Center qui marqueront pour toujours l'histoire de l'occident. Ennemi public numéro 1, sa traque restera l'une de celles qui marquera pour toujours l'histoire. Recherché par plusieurs forces armées pendant de nombreuses années et à travers le monde entier, revivez son incroyable traque.  La mort du chef d'Al Qaïda  Dans la vallée du Panchir tout juste libérée des talibans, Gary Bernsten dirige une unité opérationnelle de la CIA. Bernsten est convaincu que Ben Laden retourne à Tora Bora. Le terroriste espère certainement réitérer son exploit de 1987. Pour sa capture, la CIA ne peut pas compter sur les forces américaines, occupées sur d'autres fronts. Bernsten envoie donc un détachement d'agents pour prendre contact avec Hazrat Ali, l'un des seuls sympathisants du coin. Le chef de guerre accepte de mettre ses hommes au service des États-Unis. Le 3 décembre 2001, Ali et ses moudjahidins lancent l'offensive contre un camp situé à 3 000 m d'altitude. L'US Air force pilonne la base pendant 56 heures. Ben Laden ne peut pas en réchapper. Pour découvrir une autre traque, cliquez ci-dessous : [INEDIT] Kim Dotcom, le hacker qui se prenait pour le roi d'Internet : un gamin plein d'idées (1/4) [INEDIT] Kim Dotcom, le hacker qui se prenait pour le roi d'Internet : la création du plus grand site de piratage (2/4) [INEDIT] Kim Dotcom, le hacker qui se prenait pour le roi d'Internet : un raid policier à l'aube (3/4) [INEDIT] Kim Dotcom, le hacker qui se prenait pour le roi d'internet : une bataille juridique hors norme (4/4) Crédits : Production : Bababam  Textes : Cyril Legrais  Voix : Anne Cosmao, Aurélien Gouas Montage : Jean-Gabriel Rassat En partenariat avec Upday.  Première diffusion le 19 juillet 2024. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Retired CIA Operative and government whistleblower Gary Berntsen reveals the results of a four-year investigation into election tampering. His team's conclusion: Enemies of the United States including Venezuela, Cuba, China and Serbia have been determining the results of elections in the U.S. since 2006 through the use of electronic systems that they have developed. Using these systems, they now manipulate the results of elections in 72 countries around the world.Gary Berntsen is arguably the most decorated CIA operations officer in modern times. He is the man who recruited and led the combined CIA-Special Forces teams that helped overthrow the Taliban after the attack of 9/11 and had Osama bin Laden and his Al-Qaeda fighters trapped in the Tora Bora mountains of Afghanistan. He also served as a CIA Station Chief in three counties; led the Hezbollah working group; investigated the East Africa embassy bombings in 1998; and stopped various terrorist attacks around the world. Gary and his team are now going public with a criminal investigation that will shock the world. The evidence they have assembled is described in a new book by Ralph Pezzullo called "Stolen Elections: The Plot to Destroy Global Democracy" published by Skyhorse Publishing.Heroes Behind HeadlinesExecutive Producer Ralph PezzulloProduced & Engineered by Mike DawsonMusic provided by ExtremeMusic.com

Dans cette nouvelle saison de La Traque, revivez l'une des plus grandes chasses à l'homme du 21e siècle, celle du terroriste Ben Laden. À la tête d'Al-Qaïda, l'une des plus grandes associations terroristes du début du 21e siècle, il a commandité les attentats des tours du World Trade Center qui marqueront pour toujours l'histoire de l'occident. Ennemi public numéro 1, sa traque restera l'une de celles qui marquera pour toujours l'histoire. Recherché par plusieurs forces armées pendant de nombreuses années et à travers le monde entier, revivez son incroyable traque.  La mort du chef d'Al Qaïda  Dans la vallée du Panchir tout juste libérée des talibans, Gary Bernsten dirige une unité opérationnelle de la CIA. Bernsten est convaincu que Ben Laden retourne à Tora Bora. Le terroriste espère certainement réitérer son exploit de 1987. Pour sa capture, la CIA ne peut pas compter sur les forces américaines, occupées sur d'autres fronts. Bernsten envoie donc un détachement d'agents pour prendre contact avec Hazrat Ali, l'un des seuls sympathisants du coin. Le chef de guerre accepte de mettre ses hommes au service des États-Unis. Le 3 décembre 2001, Ali et ses moudjahidins lancent l'offensive contre un camp situé à 3 000 m d'altitude. L'US Air force pilonne la base pendant 56 heures. Ben Laden ne peut pas en réchapper. Pour découvrir une autre traque, cliquez ci-dessous : Linda Kasabian, complice malgré elle de Charles Manson : la famille “Manson” (1/4) Linda Kasabian, complice malgré elle de Charles Manson : le meurtre de Sharon Tate (2/4) Linda Kasabian, complice malgré elle de Charles Manson : une violence sans nom (3/4) Linda Kasabian, complice malgré elle de Charles Manson : une reddition libératrice (4/4) Crédits : Production : Bababam  Textes : Cyril Legrais  Voix : Anne Cosmao, Aurélien Gouas Montage : Jean-Gabriel Rassat En partenariat avec Upday.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Barebactrian S3E8: A NICE trip to Tora Bora This episode of Barebactrian is especially dear to me. Real Basil-enjoyers know that the first season of Barebactrian was intended to be a limited series leading up to my first ever trip to Afghanistan. Well, the trip happened, but for some reason I just wasn't able to make the episode work. Thank God for my friends twitter.com/Monty___Carlo and twitter.com/bigmac_mccarthy who joined me this week to help me unpack this once in a lifetime experience and share it all with you --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/barebactrian/support

A Bravo Zulu for a hard-working young student, a proud mom, and a Legion post supporting youth in their community. THE INTERVIEW Afghanistan War Commission Executive Director Jaime Cheshire discusses the commission's role, how veterans can help get answers to policy decisions made during the 20-year war and more.  THE SCUTTLEBUTT Adopt a Woman Veteran at the Military Women's Memorial The Ghost Army - Combat Con Artists of World War II Clarksville, Tenn., American Legion posts stepping up for neighbors in the aftermath of devastating tornadoes Special Guest: Jaime Cheshire .

2001 - 2011Osama bin Laden pulls off a disappearing act at the Battle of Tora Bora, and spends the rest of his life as the world's most wanted terrorist, on the run or in hiding.  After nearly a decade's worth of intelligence leads and special forces operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, the manhunt for the Al Qaeda leader culminates with a risky, top secret raid at a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.  

//The Wire Weekly Rollup//March 24-30, 2024//-----BEGIN TEARLINE------International Events-France: Authorities have increased the terror alert to its maximum level following the continual assessment of an increased likelihood of terrorism. Though authorities have not revealed any specific threat (beyond the violent attacks France experiences on a daily basis), the opening ceremonies for the Olympic games have been closed to tourists. Event officials are also considering closing the opening ceremonies altogether due to the security threats.Russia: Details continue to emerge following the Crocus City Hall music venue shooting last week. All four shooters have been arrested, along with a handful of other individuals accused of complicity in the attack. -HomeFront-Maryland: The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed after the M/V DALI collided with a support pylon after an unknown mechanical issue caused the vessel to deviate from her course. Details regarding the specifics of the incident have largely not been made public due to the ongoing investigation. The M/V DALI remains impaled on the bridge debris, which has caused Baltimore Harbor to be cut off from the outside world, stranding four major Military Sealift Command (MSC) ships in the harbor for the foreseeable future. Initial estimates have indicated that the bridge will take approximately 10 years to rebuild, despite only taking 5 years to build originally in 1972.Texas: Outrage continues following the revelation of clauses within the latest trillion dollar omnibus spending bill, which have mandated the federal tracking of all beef cattle in the United States.New York: City officials have announced the implementation of metal detectors in the subway system. These detectors will augment the existing military checkpoints currently in place throughout the subway system, and will be installed over the next few weeks.-----END TEARLINE-----Analyst Comments: To the unknowing citizen, the excuse of ISIS-K being responsible for the Moscow attack may seem as plausible as any other theory. However, those who have field experience combatting ISIS-K may assess that the chance that ISIS-K was responsible for this attack is nearly zero. The following are a few indicators that suggest the official story, spread throughout western Europe, the United States, and even Russia, is a lie.At this point, most media outlets claim that ISIS-K has claimed responsibility for the attack. Russian President Vladimir Putin has also blamed “radical Islamists” for the attack, though not going so far as to name a specific group. The Khorasan-derived ISIS offshoot has largely declined over the past few years for many reasons. Whereas the traditional Islamic State organization has roots in Iraq and Syria, the Khorasan splinter group known as ISIS-K is a completely different organization in practice. Largely being confined to the far-reaches of eastern Afghanistan as well as the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan, as recently as 2019 ISIS-K was on its way out as an organization. Numbering only a few hundred members, and taking refuge in the Tora Bora mountains (of Bin Laden fame), ISIS-K had lost so much influence that even attacks in Jalalabad were very rare. Taliban forces were at war with ISIS-K deep in the mountains, and on many occasions the United States undertook operations to target ISIS-K with the assumption that the Taliban would then move in and occupy the terrain. This was quietly the de facto policy for many years. In fact, diplomatic relations soured at the 2019 peace negotiations in Doha in response to a few high-profile instances where conventional American forces killed a few relatives of senior Taliban leadership, rather than ISIS-K. As such, the ability for ISIS-K to conduct operations outside of Afghanistan is extremely remote, especially considering that the

Within weeks of the 9/11 attacks, Air Force Combat Controller Joe O'Keefe was in Afghanistan working with the CIA and other special operations units. Joe and his small team made their way into the mountains of Tora Bora with the help of the Northern Alliance. Armed with the element of surprise, he was able to […]

Richard Rumelt is a legend in the world of strategy. He's the author of Good Strategy/Bad Strategy and The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists, both of which are often recommended by guests on this podcast. From his early days teaching in Iran at a Harvard-sponsored business school to teaching at Harvard Business School itself to over four decades teaching at UCLA's Anderson School of Management, Richard's impact resonates globally. His strategic insights are sought after by major corporations including Microsoft, Shell, Apple, AT&T, Intel, and Commonwealth Bank and by governmental organizations such as the U.S. Army Special Operations Command. In this episode, we discuss:• The essential components of a good strategy• The importance of coherence in strategy• Common pitfalls that create a bad strategy• How “power” plays into strategy, and common sources of power• The value of knowing history when developing effective strategies• Why a strategy should simply be called an “action agenda”• The need for one decider in an organization—Brought to you by:• CommandBar—AI-powered user assistance for modern products and impatient users• Miro—A collaborative visual platform where your best work comes to life• Vanta—Automate compliance. Simplify security.—Find the full transcript at: https://www.lennyspodcast.com/good-strategy-bad-strategy-richard-rumelt/—Where to find Richard Rumelt:• Email: richard@generalimagination.com• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-rumelt-18520828/• Website: https://thecruxbook.com/—Where to find Lenny:• Newsletter: https://www.lennysnewsletter.com• X: https://twitter.com/lennysan• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lennyrachitsky/—In this episode, we cover:(00:00) Richard's background(04:29) What is a strategy?(06:23) The essential components of a good strategy (the “kernel”)(15:04) An example of good strategy(16:55) Bad strategy(25:17) The importance of focus and power(28:19) Identifying and utilizing power(34:38) Types of power(41:13) Implementing power(48:15) The importance of historical knowledge(55:23) How to write an action agenda(01:02:47) The crux(01:10:40) Challenges to executing a strategy(01:15:44) The need for a decider(01:20:39) Strategy for startups(01:26:04) Richard's “value denials” exercise(01:31:01) Closing thoughts(01:33:57) Lightning round—Referenced:• China's Xi says ‘reunification' with Taiwan is inevitable: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/31/chinas-xi-says-reunification-with-taiwan-is-inevitable.html• The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists: https://www.amazon.com/Crux-How-Leaders-Become-Strategists/dp/1541701240• Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters: https://www.amazon.com/Good-Strategy-Bad-Difference-Matters/dp/0307886239• Fundamental Issues in Strategy: A Research Agenda: https://www.amazon.com/Fundamental-Issues-Strategy-Research-Agenda/dp/0875843433/• Strategy, Structure, and Economic Performance: https://www.amazon.com/Strategy-Structure-Economic-Performance-Richard/dp/0875841090• There's more than the CIA and FBI: The 17 agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community: https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-17-intelligence-agencies-20170112-story.html• Programme for International Student Assessment: https://www.oecd.org/pisa/• Gerstner: Changing Culture at IBM—Lou Gerstner Discusses Changing the Culture at IBM: https://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/gerstner-changing-culture-at-ibm-lou-gerstner-discusses-changing-the-culture-at-ibm• Marvin Lieberman on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marvin-lieberman-2a6b72/• S&P 500: https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/indices/equity/sp-500/#overview• Battle of Tora Bora: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tora_Bora• Milton Friedman: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Friedman• The Louvre: https://www.louvre.fr/en• How does SpaceX build its Falcon 9 reusable rocket?: https://www.sciencefocus.com/space/how-does-spacex-build-its-falcon-9-reusable-rocket• Charles Darwin: History's most famous biologist: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/charles-darwin-most-famous-biologist.html• Donald Rumsfeld: https://www.defense.gov/About/Biographies/Biography/Article/602800/• Bush: The Decider-in-Chief: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bush-the-decider-in-chief/• Woodrow Wilson: https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/woodrow-wilson/• How the Sinking of Lusitania Changed World War I: https://www.history.com/news/how-the-sinking-of-lusitania-changed-wwi• Nokia: https://www.nokia.com/• The Rise and Fall of Nokia: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46041• Salesforce: https://www.salesforce.com/• These New Windows Let the Summer Breeze In, But Block the Street Noise: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-new-windows-let-the-summer-breeze-in-but-block-the-street-noise-7906121/• Stop it! 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Matt Crawford speaks with author and retired MH-47E pilot Alan Mack about his book: Razor 03: A Night Stalker's Wars. Mack shares his behind-the-scenes perspective of the Horse Soldier's infill into Afghanistan. The hunt for Osama Bin Laden at Tora Bora and describes his shootdown during Operation Anaconda. Years later, he chased Bowe Bergdahl, rescued hostages in Iraq, and the U.S Navy Seal 'Lone Survivor' from the Kunar Valley. Mack also discusses the sacrifices he and his family made while serving this country and how they coped. A truly inspirational read that all should pick up.

Razor 03: A Night Stalker's Wars by Alan C. Mack https://amzn.to/41uJ5sb “A truly extraordinary book by a phenomenal pilot and warrior. Alan Mack was in the thick of every sensitive, harrowing, high-stakes operation in the decade following 9/11. His account of combat from the cockpit of the world's most exceptional special ops aviation unit and of the toll it took on him and his family is forthright, riveting, raw, compelling, and inspirational. Readers will not be able to put Razor 3 down.” -General David H. Petraeus, US Army (Ret.), former Commander of the Surge in Iraq, US Central Command, and Coalition Forces in Afghanistan, and former Director of the CIAFinalist, 2022 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Awards The attacks of September 11, 2001, prompted the creation of a robust and deadly special operations force -- Task Force Dagger. Alan C. Mack, Callsign Razor 03, led a team of MH-47E helicopters and armed MH-60s. Their two-fold mission – Personnel Recovery (PR) and Unconventional Warfare (UW) involved flying in terrain and weather previously not thought possible. If that wasn't enough, they pushed the flight envelope of their specially modified Chinooks to the limit and beyond. Mack shares his behind-the-scenes perspective of the Horse Soldier's infill into Afghanistan. He discusses the hunt for Osama Bin Laden at Tora Bora and describes his shootdown during Operation Anaconda. Years later, he chased Bowe Bergdahl, rescued hostages in Iraq, and the U.S. Navy Seal ‘Lone Survivor' from the Kunar Valley. Mack's near-death experiences and frequent deployments not only affected him, but pushed his wife toward prescription opioids. Her developing addiction led to friction as he kept her secret and continued to deploy. He lived by his unit's motto, Night Stalkers Don't Quit! He wouldn't quit on his unit – he couldn't quit on his family. His story of success, tragedy, and ultimate happiness is as old as warfare itself. About the Author CW5 ALAN C. MACK retired from the Army as a Master Aviator. He served over 35 years in the Army, first as an aircraft mechanic then as a pilot. He flew CH-47s in support of Operations Desert Shield and Storm. Additionally, he spent 17 years flying MH-47 Chinooks with the 160th SOAR. As a Night Stalker Flight Lead, he participated in Operations Desert Thunder, Desert Fox, Enduring, and Iraqi Freedom. His awards include the Legion of Merit, 2 Distinguished Flying Crosses, 10 Air medals – 1 with ‘V,' and a Combat Action Badge. Alan finished his career as Commander of the West Point Flight Detachment. Now he and his wife Patti live happily in New York's Hudson Valley.

OSAMA BIN WAITIN' FOR NEW YEARS: STRANGE DAYS and ZERO DARK THIRTY W/ BIGELOW CURATOR RYAN!We conclude our four film sweep through the filmography of Kathryn Bigelow with one of her notorious failures and one of her triumphs. 1995's STRANGE DAYS was a big budget summer movie that took place in the far-flung future of (checks notes) 1999! It's mix of contemporary social outrage and little bald caps that can record anyone's feelings and what they are seeing is a tough mix. Ralph Fiennes and Angela Bassett are as pretty as they have ever been on film wallowing around in a semi-futuristic hellscape where only terrible music is available. There are some sharp disagreements on this one, which was unavailable for streaming forever until HBO Max decided to flush it onto their platform as it was stinking up their vaults. Then 2012's ZERO DARK THIRTY! Bigelow and co-screenwriter Mark Boal had written an entirely different film about the battle of Tora Bora when Osama Bin Laden had the temerity to be killed by a team of Navy Seals. They scrapped the existing script and quickly changed direction to tell the decade-long manhunt for the man responsible for immense pain and suffering (but also had nothing to do with Iraq).  A fascinating character study of persistence and value judgements, it is one of Bigelow's knottiest films and makes for a knotty discussion between Big Bigelow fan Ryan and Ken, Jack and Thomas which, like the film itself, has no easy answers. Stick for the Bigelow Quiz to make sure you were paying attention the last two episodes. THEME SONG BY: WEIRD A.I.Email: thegoodthepodandtheugly@gmail.comFacebook: https://m.facebook.com/TGTPTUInstagram: https://instagram.com/thegoodthepodandtheugly?igshid=um92md09kjg0Twitter: https://twitter.com/thegoodthepoda1YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6mI2plrgJu-TB95bbJCW-gBuzzsprout: https://thegoodthepodandtheugly.buzzsprout.com/Letterboxd (follow us!):Ken: Ken KoralJack: jackk1096

Scott brings Bill Buppert on the show for a long discussion centering around U.S. attempts at utilizing irregular warfare since 1945. The two touch on the Afghan surge, the battle of Tora Bora, the Vietnam War, Color Revolutions, Suicide Bombings, Austrian Economics and much more.  Discussed on the show: Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn Quigley Down Under (IMDb) “A Clean Break” (The Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies) Stalin's War by Sean McMeekin Jawbreaker by Gary Berntsen Kill Bin Laden by Thomas Greer AKA Dalton Fury “This Air Force commando called in 688,000 pounds of bombs in one battle” (Task & Purpose) Bush at War by Bob Woodward Leap of Faith by Michael J. Mazarr Why The Vietnam War? by the great Mike Swanson Kill Anything That Moves by Nick Turse Dangerous History Podcast Woodrow Wilson Series, Part 1 Wilson's War by Jim Powell FDR's Folly by Jim Powell Yesterday's Man by Branko Marcetic By Way of Deception by Victor Ostrovsky Dying to Win by Robert Pape The Dash Podcast Touching the ‘Tism Podcast Bill Buppert is a retired Army officer, independent philosopher, military historian and systems engineer. He hosts two podcasts: Chasing Ghosts and The Dash. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Tom Woods' Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott. Get Scott's interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 Download Episode. Scott brings Bill Buppert on the show for a long discussion centering around U.S. attempts at utilizing irregular warfare since 1945. The two touch on the Afghan surge, the battle of Tora Bora, the Vietnam War, Color Revolutions, Suicide Bombings, Austrian Economics and much more.  Discussed on the show: Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn Quigley Down Under (IMDb) “A Clean Break” (The Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies) Stalin's War by Sean McMeekin Jawbreaker by Gary Berntsen Kill Bin Laden by Thomas Greer AKA Dalton Fury “This Air Force commando called in 688,000 pounds of bombs in one battle” (Task & Purpose) Bush at War by Bob Woodward Leap of Faith by Michael J. Mazarr Why The Vietnam War? by the great Mike Swanson Kill Anything That Moves by Nick Turse Dangerous History Podcast Woodrow Wilson Series, Part 1 Wilson's War by Jim Powell FDR's Folly by Jim Powell Yesterday's Man by Branko Marcetic By Way of Deception by Victor Ostrovsky Dying to Win by Robert Pape The Dash Podcast Touching the ‘Tism Podcast Bill Buppert is a retired Army officer, independent philosopher, military historian and systems engineer. He hosts two podcasts: Chasing Ghosts and The Dash. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Tom Woods' Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott. Get Scott's interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjY

2001 - 2002 In the aftermath of 9/11, the United States and its allies invade Afghanistan for the beginning of a decades-long stay.  Al Qaeda and the Taliban are decisively routed in a matter of weeks, but Osama bin Laden manages to give the U.S. military the slip at Tora Bora.  Meanwhile, the United States and other countries around the world begin to face new security challenges, from the outside as well as within.  

The attacks of September 11, 2001, prompted the creation of a robust and deadly special operations force — Task Force Dagger. Alan C. Mack, Callsign Razor 03, led one of two teams of MH-47E helicopters and armed MH-60s. Their two-fold mission – Personnel Recovery (PR) and Unconventional Warfare(UW) involved flying in terrain and weather previously not thought possible. But, if that wasn't enough, they pushed the flight envelope of their specially modified Chinooks to the limit and beyond. Alan shares his behind-the-scenes perspective of the Horse Soldier's infil into Afghanistan. He discusses the hunt for Usama Bin Laden at Tora Bora and describes his shootdown during Operation Anaconda. Years later, he chased Bowe Bergdahl, rescued hostages in Iraq, and the Lone Survivor from the Kunar Valley.CW5 Alan C. Mack is a Master Aviator with more than 6700 hours of flight time, of which over 3200 hours were flown with Night Vision Goggles. Alan C. Mack's awards include Legion of Merit, 2 Distinguished Flying Crosses, 3 Bronze Star Medals, 3 Meritorious Service Medals, 10 Air Medals; one with Valor device, Combat Action Badge, and the Army Broken Wing award.

Jake Stewart & James Hardy talk about homework, fanaticism, and coping.   The shows discussed are: ‘Come From Away' at the Comedy Theatre ‘Variations or Exit Music' at La Mama   INSTAGRAM: @praisedionysus @kissingboothproductions EMAIL: praisedionysus@gmail.com   It is a privilege to create, view, and contemplate theatre on the lands of the Wurundjeri People of the Kulin Nation. Sovereignty was never ceded. This always was and will be Aboriginal Land.

Introducing ‘Rapid Fire', new short-form episodes of Heroes Behind Headlines featuring our host Ralph Pezzullo himself, telling an amazing story about an incredible hero. There is no better person with whom to begin, particularly during the week of September 11, than CIA Case Officer Gary Berntsen.Gary is the man the CIA picked to lead the first Americans into Afghanistan in the wake of 9/11. Armed with less than 500 total CIA and Special Operations personnel - along with US air power and over $11 million in cash - Gary led one of the most consequential missions in American history. It is easy to forget in the two decades since, but the initial phase of taking the fight to Al-Qaeda and the Taliban was a massive success. A phase which cumulated before Thanksgiving 2001, with none other than Osama bin-Laden trapped in the mountain pass of Tora Bora.We hope you enjoy ‘Rapid Fire' and as always, thanks for listening to Heroes Behind Headlines.

Scott is joined by CIA officer turned whistleblower turned political commentator John Kiriakou to discuss the trial of Joshua Schulte, the man accused of leaking the CIA's Vault 7 program to Wikileaks. Schulte denies being involved in the leak. His next trial is fast approaching. Kiriakou explains how the Justice Department also accused Schulte of having child pornography on his computer, although they walked it back when the judge requested they actually press charges. Scott and Kiriakou discuss past cases where the U.S. government weaponized false allegations of sexual crimes against whistleblowers. They then get into a discussion about former CIA officer Robert Grenier who Kiriakou worked with. He talks about their falling out. And any discussion of Robert Grenier is inevitably going to include Bin Laden's escape into Pakistan at Tora Bora in December of 2001. Scott goes through some of the best books on the topic and Kiriakou gives his account of that critical time period from inside the Agency.  Discussed on the show: “A Whistleblower's Agony” (Scheer Post) Kiriakou's books  @innercitypress on Twitter Robert Grenier's post-Jan 6th interview on NPR 88 Days to Kandahar by Robert Grenier Jawbreaker by Gary Berntsen Kill Bin Laden by Dalton Fury/Thomas Greer “This Air Force commando called in 688,000 pounds of bombs in one battle” (Task & Purpose) Bush at War by Bob Woodward John Kiriakou is a former CIA officer and author of The Convenient Terrorist: Two Whistleblowers' Stories of Torture, Terror, Secret Wars, and CIA Lies and Doing Time Like A Spy. He is the host of Loud and Clear on Sputnik Radio. Follow him on Twitter @JohnKiriakou. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: The War State and Why The Vietnam War?, by Mike Swanson; Tom Woods' Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; EasyShip; Free Range Feeder; Thc Hemp Spot; Green Mill Supercritical; Bug-A-Salt and Listen and Think Audio. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjYu5tZiG. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

 Download Episode. Scott is joined by CIA officer turned whistleblower turned political commentator John Kiriakou to discuss the trial of Joshua Schulte, the man accused of leaking the CIA's Vault 7 program to Wikileaks. Schulte denies being involved in the leak. His next trial is fast approaching. Kiriakou explains how the Justice Department also accused Schulte of having child pornography on his computer, although they walked it back when the judge requested they actually press charges. Scott and Kiriakou discuss past cases where the U.S. government weaponized false allegations of sexual crimes against whistleblowers. They then get into a discussion about former CIA officer Robert Grenier who Kiriakou worked with. He talks about their falling out. And any discussion of Robert Grenier is inevitably going to include Bin Laden's escape into Pakistan at Tora Bora in December of 2001. Scott goes through some of the best books on the topic and Kiriakou gives his account of that critical time period from inside the Agency.  Discussed on the show: “A Whistleblower's Agony” (Scheer Post) Kiriakou's books  @innercitypress on Twitter Robert Grenier's post-Jan 6th interview on NPR 88 Days to Kandahar by Robert Grenier Jawbreaker by Gary Berntsen Kill Bin Laden by Dalton Fury/Thomas Greer “This Air Force commando called in 688,000 pounds of bombs in one battle” (Task & Purpose) Bush at War by Bob Woodward John Kiriakou is a former CIA officer and author of The Convenient Terrorist: Two Whistleblowers' Stories of Torture, Terror, Secret Wars, and CIA Lies and Doing Time Like A Spy. He is the host of Loud and Clear on Sputnik Radio. Follow him on Twitter @JohnKiriakou. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: The War State and Why The Vietnam War?, by Mike Swanson; Tom Woods' Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; EasyShip; Free Range Feeder; Thc Hemp Spot; Green Mill Supercritical; Bug-A-Salt and Listen and Think Audio. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjYu5tZiG.

Ne gariptir ki bu sorunun bir benzeri yıllar önce Amerika'nın önde gelen Bin Ladin uzmanlarından olan Profesör David Ray Griffin'in El kaide lideri Ladin için, “Yaşıyor Mu, Öldü Mü” adlı kitabında sorulmuştu. Çünkü güvenilir kaynaklar El-Kaide lideri Usame Bin Ladin'in 13 Aralık 2007'de Tora Bora dağlarında öldüğü istihbaratını paylaşmışlardı. Yıllar önce sol böbreği işlemez hale gelen El- Kaide lideri, 2004 yılında sağ böbreğinde de sorun yaşadı. “ABD'yi titreten” Ladin, Tora Bora'daki ilkel şartlar altında, 3 yıl tek böbreğiyle hayatta kalmaya çalıştı. 13 Aralık 2007 sabahı hayatını kaybetti. Yine güvenilir kaynaklardan alınan bilgilerde Ladin hastalığını tedavi ettirebilmek için Kabil'deki CIA istasyonundan yardım dahi almıştı. Profesör Griffin kitabında sunduğu bilimsel kanıtlarla Amerikan kamuoyunun dikkatini çekmeyi başarmıştı. Dönemin El Kaide lideri Bin Ladin'in 2001-2008 döneminde yayınlanan tüm mesajlarını inceleyen Griffin, tüm kasetlerin ses ve video kayıtlarının ABD ve İngiliz gizli servislerinin işi olduğunu yazıyordu. Bin Ladin'e ait olabileceği açıklanan ses bantlarının da ABD gizli servisleri tarafından üretilmiş olabileceği iddialarına dayanan komplo teorisi etkisini az da olsa yitirerek böylece inanırlık kazanmaya başlamıştı. Bin Ladin'in son gerçek ses kaydı, 28 Eylül 2001'de yayınlandı. El Kaide lideri o kasette 11 Eylül saldırılarının sorumluluğunu reddetmiş, “Biz masum öldürmeyiz” demişti. Profesör Griffin'e göre; “Bu tarihten sonra yayınlanan ve 11 Eylül'ün sorumluluğunu üstlenen görüntülerdeki kişi, makyajla Bin Ladin'e benzetilmiş bir aktördü. Kalın burnu, cüssesi, büyük elleri, esmerliği ve farklı sakal rengi onu ele veriyor. Vahhabi'ler asla altın takmaz. Bazı görüntülerde Bin Ladin altın yüzük takıyor. Ayrıca Bin Ladin solak, oysa görüntülerde sağ elle yazıyordu. Bin Ladin bir kasetinde '11 Eylül'de demir iskeletli o koca binaları yıktık' diyor. Oysa bir inşaat mühendisi olarak bunu söylemez, çünkü gökdelenlerin demir değil, çelik iskeletli olduğunu bilir. Videolardan biri de Ekim 2004'te ABD Başkanlık seçimlerinden günler önce yayınlandı. Bu video George W. Bush'un ikinci kez başkan seçilmesini sağladı.”

Although no one in the United States could have realized it at the time, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in late 1979 was a seminal moment in the life of a young, devout Sunni Muslim whose father was a billionaire construction magnate in Saudi Arabia. Osama bin Laden, then 22, was “deeply upset” when he heard an “infidel” army attacked Afghanistan, an event that would turn out to be “the most transformative of his life, launching him into a full-time job helping the Afghan resistance,” writes Peter Bergen in his new biography, The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden. And few in the West noticed when bin Laden, a decade and a half later, issued his first public declaration of war against the United States, a vow of holy war repeated in 1997 during a television interview produced by this episode's guest. The journalist and al-Qaeda expert Peter Bergen discusses the purpose of his short, comprehensive biography of al-Qaeda's dead leader: to explain why and how bin Laden chose to dedicate his life to mass murder. Among the subjects covered in this episode: Islam at the heart of al-Qaeda; bin Laden's battlefield exploits in Afghanistan; the myth of CIA-bin Laden cooperation; why so few people in the West noticed him prior to 1998; and his escape from Tora Bora in late 2001.

I 1990'ernes Randers gik han under kunstnernavnet DJ Hoolie og var kendt for at spille op til techno-raves. Ved siden af musikken begyndte religionen at trække i Slimane Hadj Abderrahmane, og kort efter angrebet 11. september 2011 blev han taget til fange af amerikanerne efter at have flygtet gennem de afghanske Tora Bora-bjerge. Siden blev han kendt som den eneste dansker på Guantánamo-basen i Cuba. Gamle båndoptagelser med Slimane kaster lys over hans historie, der blev et symbol på kampen mod en ny og indre fjende. For hvad fik en ung mand født i Danmark til at blive hellig kriger? Havde han forbindelse til terrorangrebene i USA? Og hvad blev der egentlig af ham, efter han med hjælp fra den danske stat blev løsladt fra Guantánamo? 

In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Peter Bergen about the US exit from Afghanistan, the resurgence of the Taliban, and his new book, “The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden.” They discuss the Neo-isolationist consensus on the Right and Left, the legitimacy of our initial involvement in Afghanistan, our ethical obligations to our Afghan allies, Biden's disastrous messaging, the weakness of the Afghan army, the advantages of the Taliban, the implications for global jihadism, the relationship between the Taliban and al-Qaeda, how Osama bin Laden came to lead al-Qaeda, bin Laden's sincere religious convictions, our failure to capture bin Laden at Tora Bora, the distraction of the war in Iraq, the myth that the CIA funded al-Qaeda, bin Laden's wives, his years of hiding in Pakistan, his death at the hands of US Special Forces, and other topics. SUBSCRIBE to listen to the rest of this episode and gain access to all full-length episodes of the podcast at samharris.org/subscribe.   Learning how to train your mind is the single greatest investment you can make in life. That's why Sam Harris created the Waking Up app. From rational mindfulness practice to lessons on some of life's most important topics, join Sam as he demystifies the practice of meditation and explores the theory behind it.

In this episode of the podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Peter Bergen about the US exit from Afghanistan, the resurgence of the Taliban, and his new book, “The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden.” They discuss the Neo-isolationist consensus on the Right and Left, the legitimacy of our initial involvement in Afghanistan, our ethical obligations to our Afghan allies, Biden’s disastrous messaging, the weakness of the Afghan army, the advantages of the Taliban, the implications for global jihadism, the relationship between the Taliban and al-Qaeda, how Osama bin Laden came to lead al-Qaeda, bin Laden’s sincere religious convictions, our failure to capture bin Laden at Tora Bora, the distraction of the war in Iraq, the myth that the CIA funded al-Qaeda, bin Laden’s wives, his years of hiding in Pakistan, his death at the hands of US Special Forces, and other topics. Peter Bergen is the author or editor of nine books, including three New York Times bestsellers and four Washington Post best nonfiction books of the year. His most recent book is The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden. Bergen is a Vice President at New America, a professor at Arizona State University, and a national security analyst for CNN. He has testified before congressional committees eighteen times about national security issues and has held teaching positions at Harvard and Johns Hopkins University. Website: peterbergen.com Twitter: @peterbergencnn Learning how to train your mind is the single greatest investment you can make in life. That’s why Sam Harris created the Waking Up app. From rational mindfulness practice to lessons on some of life’s most important topics, join Sam as he demystifies the practice of meditation and explores the theory behind it.

Taliban yeniden Kabil'de. Uluslararası ajanslara bakarsanız, Taliban yüzünden Kabil başta olmak üzere Afganistan'da büyük bir kaotik ortam var. Türk matbuatını da dün neredeyse baştan sona takip ettim, birkaç istisna dışında onlar da Amerika'nın çekilmesine ve Taliban'ın yeniden yönetimi ele geçirmesine Batılı gözlüğüyle bakıyorlar. Ama durum çok da öyle değil. Dedim ya birkaç istisna var. Bu istisnaların başında elbette gazetemiz Yeni Şafak geliyor. TORA BORA'DA BİN LADİN'İ BULMAK İÇİN İŞGAL ETTİKLERİ AFGANİSTAN'DA REZİL OLUP GİTTİLER Afganistan dediğimizde, 1979'dan bu yana işgale uğramış bir ülkeden söz ettiğimizi bilmemiz gerekiyor. En son 2001 yılında Tora Bora'da Usame Bin Ladin'i bulmak için yola çıkan Amerikan askerinin işgal ettiği ve bu işgal ile zaten kırılgan olan devlet otoritesinin de yerle bir olduğunu hatırlayalım. Bakmayın siz “ulus inşa ettik” diyen Amerikalılara ve onların işbirlikçilerine. Kabil ve merkez şehirlerde “yeni bir zümre” oluşturmak için trilyon dolar harcadılar. Afganistan ordusunu donatıp eğittiler. Ama hepsinin fiyasko olduğu ortaya çıktı. Çünkü doğal bir süreç değildi Afganistan gerçeğinden çok uzak bir “proje”yi dayattıkları. TALİBAN İLE DİĞER GÜÇLER ANLAŞIRSA KAZANAN AFGAN HALKI OLUR 2016'dan bu yana önce gizli gizli sonra açıktan görüştükleri Taliban'a Afganistan'ı bırakıp çekip gittiğinde Amerika, onun beslediği kim varsa bir kurşun bile atmadan teslim oldu. Aslında iyi de oldu..!

BioThomas Joscelyn is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and is senior editor of FDD's Long War Journal, a widely read publication on counterterrorism and related issues. His main focus is on jihadism and how al-Qaeda and the Islamic State operate around the globe. He has served as a consultant for the FBI's Counterterrorism Division and has testified before Congress on more than twenty times.He has constructed dossiers on hundreds of terrorists during the course of his work. He's been described as one of “the most trusted authorities on the al-Qaeda network because of his encyclopedic knowledge of terrorist biographies.” In 2017, as a result of Thomas's efforts, the CIA declassified and released the vast majority of the files captured in Osama bin Laden's compound. Times1:00 - Intro to Tom2:00 - Bin Laden files & al-Qaeda intro7:15 - What was Bin Laden working on at the end?9:45 - The narrative that Bin Laden was “retired”15:30 - What is al-Qaeda?19:15 - Rationale for 9/1122:00 - Abdul Azzam23:15 - Ayman al-Zawahiri's role and is he still active?27:00 - Media exposure of Zawahiri31:00 - Day to day operations of al-Qaeda & Its history w/ ISIS37:00 - Would al-Qaeda leave us alone if we got out of the Middle East?43:00 - Congressional authorization of war48:45 - What would the world have looked like if we got Bin Laden at Tora Bora?51:15 - Challenging the narrative of “2001 invasion of Afghanistan was a success”52:45 - The Taliban in Afghanistan57:00 - Does the Taliban have the appetite to sponsor another Bin Laden?60:45 - What's the goal of al-Qaeda?1:02:30 - Final recap of narratives1:06:30 - American elites & leadership LinksTom's Long War JournalTom's twitterJeff's twitternarrativemonopoly.com

In this episode, Tom Blakely interviews international security expert Peter Krause on the US decision to withdraw from Afghanistan by September 11th, 2021.  Peter Krause's research and teaching focus on international security, Middle East politics, terrorism and political violence, nationalism, and rebels and revolution. He has recently published one book and two co-edited volumes Rebel Power: Why National Movements Compete, Fight, and Win (Cornell University Press, 2017), Coercion: The Power to Hurt in International Politics (Oxford University Press, 2018), and Stories From the Field: A Guide to Navigating Fieldwork in Political Science (Columbia University Press, 2020). He has published articles on the causes and effectiveness of terrorism and political violence, why states negotiate with ethno-political organizations, social movements and territorial control in Israel, U.S. intervention in the Syrian civil war, the politics of division within the Palestinian national movement, the war of ideas in the Middle East, a reassessment of U.S. operations at Tora Bora in 2001, and field research amidst COVID-19. Krause has conducted extensive fieldwork throughout the Middle East. He currently teaches courses on Middle East politics, terrorism and political violence, research methods, and international relations. He is a faculty associate in the International Studies Program and the Islamic Civilization and Societies Program at Boston College, as well as a research affiliate with the MIT Security Studies Program. Krause was formerly a Research Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs of the Harvard Kennedy School, the Crown Center for Middle East Studies of Brandeis University, LUISS University, and Uppsala University.

When the Taliban were ousted from power in Afghanistan in 2001, the hunt for Osama bin Laden began in earnest. One American in particular led the search. He was CIA commander, Gary Berntsen, who had been tracking the al-Qaeda leader for years. In December 2001 he ordered a small group of special forces soldiers and Afghan fighters into the White Mountains, close to the border with Pakistan, in the hope of cornering bin Laden in the caves of Tora Bora. But as Gary Berntsen tells Rebecca Kesby, in spite of heavy bombardment bin Laden managed to give them the slip. (PHOTO: Local anti-Taliban fighters help US special forces in the assault on the White Mountains and Tora Bora cave complex in Afghanistan, December 2001. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

EVENT: If you'd like to attend a Q&A session with Combat Story's Ryan Fugit, please fill out this form. Today we hear the combat story of Sergeant Major (ret) John “Shrek” McPhee AKA “The Sheriff of Baghdad,” who spent 20 years in the Army's Special Operations community, from Ranger Battalion to Group to Delta Force. He is one of the handful of operators to have served in multiple theaters from Bosnia and South America to Iraq and Afghanistan. John's one of a smaller group of operators to successfully execute raids in combat by himself during hundreds of solo operations. After leaving the military, John created SOB Tactical that helps people, law enforcement, and special operators improve shooting skills and security. He also hosts a channel called Booze N Views that talks about current events and new whiskey! John brings me to tears with laughter in this episode, which is just a byproduct of John's sense of humor and way of life. I hope that like me, your jaw hurts from laughing by the end of this interview. Enjoy. From the website: SOB Tactical is a word of mouth based business. As such we stand ready, willing, and passionately able to serve anybody important to you. Giving them exceptional service, products, training and treating them in a very special way. Find John Online: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/sobtactical/ SOB Tactical - https://sobtactical.com/ SOB TV - https://watch.sobtactical.com/ Booze N Views - https://watch.sobtactical.com/booze-n-views Show Notes: 0:00 - Intro 0:49 - John McPhee's bio. 2:46 - “Talking s&*% should be a PhD in school.” 5:16 - Growing up as the little guy. 10:46 - Military history in the family. 11:40 - “I've always been incredibly mechanically inclined.” 15:04 - Why the infantry? That was not the intended route. 17:59 - “You can't follow my path ‘cause I didn't have one.” 19:07 - “I want to win.” 23:48 - “Never seen anyone run like that.” A guy John couldn't shake. 27:34 - Combat Story #1: Jumping into Iraq and why static line jumps are so bad. 30:29 - How not to lie to people. 39:22 - Feelings on the Q Course and the route to Delta. 41:47 - How hard was Delta selection? It's a great response! 49:48 - Where does the nickname “Shrek” come from? 52:00 - Combat Story #2: The Battle of Tora Bora. 55:37 - “Chaos is my jam…” 1:06:23 - Combat Story #3: Solo operations with The Unit. 1:11:33 - Combat Story #4: Craziest thing I've ever done. 1:16:44 - How you get soldiers, including the elite, to decompress after multiple hits each night. 1:18:39 - What's a “hall pass?” 1:25:26 - Tell us about the “Pornstache.” 1:28:04 - Sheriff of Baghdad aka SOB Tactical. Where the name came from and what type of training and work SOB does. 1:37:04 - Booze N Views. https://watch.sobtactical.com/booze-n-views 1:42:17 - What did you carry with you on missions? 1:44:09 - Would you do it all again?

Edwin het Betonboertje draait vanaf de jaren 90 mee in het Twentse piratenwereld. Hij draaide onder andere onder PCH, De Twentse Tukker en de Tora Bora. In deze podcast het verhaal over de piratenhobby van het Betonboertje.

06DEC2001: Serving as a combat controller with the 24th Special Tactics Squadron, T/Sgt Michael Stockdale was working with teams from the U.S. Army SFOD-D in Afghanistan.  With word that bin Laden had moved into a mountain range bordering Pakistan, Stockdale's team along with their Afghan allies moved in. Holed up in what's known as Tora Bora in eastern Afghanistan, bin Laden and al-Qaeda had built a substantial defensive network amidst what was already a formidable natural fortress.  In order to assault the defenders, American air power would be critical. The first three days of the fight would see T/Sgt Stockdale masterfully employing close air support in a devastating manner.  As the fight raged, Stockdale moved to the front lines to gain a better view of the enemy positions and started servicing one after the other. Working non-stop for days on end, T/Sgt Stockdale was regularly coordinating between multiple aircraft, sending targets, and aligning attack headings all while more aircraft came on and off station.  An incredible feat from a secure environment, Stockdale accomplished this in the midst of a deadly close-range fight. Over a three day span, T/Sgt Stockdale averaged 13 hours a day of uninterrupted air support, directing over 300 missions and 600,000 lbs of munitions.  This overwhelming firepower had bin Laden so shaken that he notated a last will and testament, found later by US forces. For his incredible skill in the midst of the deadly fight, T/Sgt Michael Stockdale was awarded the Silver Star.

I was recently on Life or Death podcast with former SAS Chris Ryan. I talk about my time clearing the caves of Tora Bora in search of Osama bin Laden, my solo mission tracking down the last man who knew of his location, and what it's like going into combat sat on the edge of a MH-6 Little Bird helicopter.  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/life-or-death-with-chris-ryan/id1532933911  

Former Green Beret and Delta Force Sniper John McPhee talks about his time clearing the caves of Tora Bora in search of Osama bin Laden, a solo mission tracking down the last man who knew of his location, and what it's like going into combat sat on the edge of a MH-6 Little Bird helicopter.

durée : 00:37:50 - Rendez-vous avec X - C’est la plus grande erreur militaire des états-Unis dans leur lutte contre Al-Qaïda ! C’est en tout cas l’avis d’un éminent journaliste anglo-saxon, Jonathan Randal, auteur d’une biographie de Ben Laden.

Quote: “Where do you want to start?” —Farhad Azad About: Afghanistan has far too often been referred to as a place where countries go to die, it is a graveyard of empires. This moniker has been cited so many times and for so long that it’s unclear who first said it. Even the Afghan community will recite this pride. But what a title like this fails to convey is that while this might be a country responsible for the many tombstones of others, it very well is also a moratorium of progress for itself, a state in perpetual arrested development. This is also a cemetery for countless Afghans who, in more modern times, failed to see any empire rise. Why do some countries get to debate their histories while others have their legacy determined by outsiders? And what gets lost along the way? This is Part II of a multi-part story on how history, current events, and culture all complicate the Afghan identity.  Show Notes: [00:30] “The Layers of Heaven” by Jovica [00:45] The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini [00:50] The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis [01:15] Re: Is it hard to have fun when you have a library card? [01:20] More on Jamil Jan Kochai (@jamiljankochai) Read his book, 99 Nights in Logar Read his New Yorker story [01:35] The renovation project on the West Sacramento Public Library [02:35] Listen to Part 1 here [02:50] A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini  [03:10] Sea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini  [03:15] “Mirrored Seduction” by Walt Adams [04:40] SparkNotes for The Kite Runner  [05:05] The Kite Runner movie trailer [07:50] “Attan-Khatme Zanzeri” s/o to the original “afghan-music.com”  [09:50]  Books here: Afghanistan: A Short History of Its People and Politics by Martin Ewans The Dressmaker of Khair Khana by Gayle Lemmon Killing the Cranes: A Reporter's Journey through Three Decades of War in Afghanistan by Edward Girardet Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia by Ahmed Rashid Zinky Boys: Soviet Voices from the Afghanistan War by Svetlana Alexievichy Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Steve Cole Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan by Doug Stanton [11:55] “Walk Like an Egyptian” cover by The Cleverlys [12:20] Light reading on Napoleon’s conquest of Egypt Related reading here [12:35] French Suite No. 2 in C Minor [13:20] Light reading on the late Edward Said [13:30] A recent review of Orientalism by Edward Said [13:45] “Choose Your Outfit” by Colors of Illusion [14:10] Edward Said with the Media Education Foundation in 1998 [15:20] More on Farhad Azad and afghanmagazine.com [16:10] “Over the Dunes” by Jon Sumner [16:55] Light reading on Nader Shah [17:10] Light reading on the Pashtuns More on Pashtunwali Light reading on Ahmad Shah Durrani [20:05] “Portobello Road” by David Celeste [20:30] More on Dr. Nivi Manchanda (@ManchandaNivi) Her blog on the disorder of things Her book, Imagining Afghanistan: the History and Politics of Imperial Knowledge  A Q&A on her book [21:00] Light reading on the British East India Company [21:10] Light reading on the geopolitical context of the 1800s [21:50] An Account of the Kingdom of Caubul, and its Dependencies in Persia, Tartary, and India [22:30] Some of Dr. Manchanda’s other writings “The Imperial Sociology of the ‘Tribe’ in Afghanistan” “Queering the Pashtun: Afghansexuality in the homo-nationalist imaginary” [23:45] “Fairy’s Fear” by Deskant  [26:30] “Leavy Quickly” by Alan Carlson-Green [26:35] Light reading on the US-Afghan war [26:50] Light reading on the Great Game [27:00] “Oh Motherland” by Sight of Wonders  [27:25] “Devil’s Disgrace” by Deskant [27:35] Light reading on the British Intelligence officer who coined the term “The Great Game”    Related: A 1901 review of Rudyard Kipling’s Kim [29:05] See 'Remnants of An Army’ Read some backstory of the painting here [29:30] Light reading on William Brydon [29:45] Technically, it was the winter of 1841-42, but more reading on that retreat here. [31:20] Light reading of that first occupation in 1842 [31:25] ”Alive Without Breathing” by Deskant [32:30] Light reading on Dost Muhammad Khan’s reflections on the British empire More on First Anglo Afghan War (1839-42) [32:50] Light reading on Sher Ali Khan  More on the Second Anglo Afghan War (1878-80) [33:50] Light reading on Abdur-Rahman Khan (aka The Iron Emir) Light reading on the state of the Hazara population Light reading on the Hazara genocide of the 1890s More reading on the Hazara genocide More reading on the Hazaras His rationale of his brutal reign [33:55] “Pepper Seeds” by Rune Dale [35:40] News of Afghanistan’s latest railroad here and here [36:05] Light reading on the assassination of Habibullah Khan [37:20] “Crusade” by Max Anson [37:50] Light reading on the Third Anglo Afghan War (1919) Light reading on Ammanullah Khan Light reading on the bombings of Kabul Light reading on Afghan Independence Day Related: Independence movements in Egypt, Ireland and Malta Light reading on the Durand Line [39:35] More on Wazhmah Osman And her book: Television and the Afghan Culture Wars And her film: Postcards from Tora Bora [41:40] Light reading on Khushal Khan Khattak [44:00] “Nothing in This World” by Telmo Telmo  

Everything you ever wanted to know about the 9/11 conspiracy theory in under 5 minutes. Sadly, with all of the overwhelming and irrefutable scientific evidence Proving that ALL 3 buildings on 9/11 were brought down by controlled demolition, and that No plane hit the Pentagon; it still seems that so many people don't question the official story. An official story that is absolutely preposterous on it's face, and grows increasingly absurd the more it is examined. Perhaps even more discouraging is knowing that the official lie is in textbooks and being taught in public schools (indoctrination centers). Ensuring the next generation of students are brainwashed into the United States's "righteousness".~ Audio and transcript credit: Corbett Report- http://www.corbettreport.com (website)- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7TvL4GlQyMBLlUsTrN_C4Q (YouTube channel)TRANSCRIPT: On the morning of September 11, 2001, 19 men armed with boxcutters directed by a man on dialysis in a cave fortress halfway around the world using a satellite phone and a laptop directed the most sophisticated penetration of the most heavily-defended airspace in the world, overpowering the passengers and the military combat-trained pilots on 4 commercial aircraft before flying those planes wildly off course for over an hour without being molested by a single fighter interceptor.These 19 hijackers, devout religious fundamentalists who liked to drink alcohol, snort cocaine, and live with pink-haired strippers, managed to knock down 3 buildings with 2 planes in New York, while in Washington a pilot who couldn’t handle a single engine Cessna was able to fly a 757 in an 8,000 foot descending 270 degree corskscrew turn to come exactly level with the ground, hitting the Pentagon in the budget analyst office where DoD staffers were working on the mystery of the 2.3 trillion dollars that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had announced “missing” from the Pentagon’s coffers in a press conference the day before, on September 10, 2001.Luckily, the news anchors knew who did it within minutes, the pundits knew within hours, the Administration knew within the day, and the evidence literally fell into the FBI’s lap. But for some reason a bunch of crazy conspiracy theorists demanded an investigation into the greatest attack on American soil in history.The investigation was delayed, underfunded, set up to fail, a conflict of interest and a cover up from start to finish. It was based on testimony extracted through torture, the records of which were destroyed. It failed to mention the existence of WTC7, Able Danger, Ptech, Sibel Edmonds, OBL and the CIA, and the drills of hijacked aircraft being flown into buildings that were being simulated at the precise same time that those events were actually happening. It was lied to by the Pentagon, the CIA, the Bush Administration and as for Bush and Cheney…well, no one knows what they told it because they testified in secret, off the record, not under oath and behind closed doors. It didn’t bother to look at who funded the attacks because that question is of “little practical significance“. Still, the 9/11 Commission did brilliantly, answering all of the questions the public had (except most of the victims’ family members’ questions) and pinned blame on all the people responsible (although no one so much as lost their job), determining the attacks were “a failure of imagination” because “I don’t think anyone could envision flying airplanes into buildings ” except the Pentagon and FEMA and NORAD and the NRO.The DIA destroyed 2.5 TB of data on Able Danger, but that’s OK because it probably wasn’t important.The SEC destroyed their records on the investigation into the insider trading before the attacks, but that’s OK because destroying the records of the largest investigation in SEC history is just part of routine record keeping.NIST has classified the data that they used for their model of WTC7’s collapse, but that’s OK because knowing how they made their model of that collapse would “jeopardize public safety“.The FBI has argued that all material related to their investigation of 9/11 should be kept secret from the public, but that’s OK because the FBI probably has nothing to hide.This man never existed, nor is anything he had to say worthy of your attention, and if you say otherwise you are a paranoid conspiracy theorist and deserve to be shunned by all of humanity. Likewise him, him, him, and her. (and her and her and him).Osama Bin Laden lived in a cave fortress in the hills of Afghanistan, but somehow got away. Then he was hiding out in Tora Bora but somehow got away. Then he lived in Abottabad for years, taunting the most comprehensive intelligence dragnet employing the most sophisticated technology in the history of the world for 10 years, releasing video after video with complete impunity (and getting younger and younger as he did so), before finally being found in a daring SEAL team raid which wasn’t recorded on video, in which he didn’t resist or use his wife as a human shield, and in which these crack special forces operatives panicked and killed this unarmed man, supposedly the best source of intelligence about those dastardly terrorists on the planet. Then they dumped his body in the ocean before telling anyone about it. Then a couple dozen of that team’s members died in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan.This is the story of 9/11, brought to you by the media which told you the hard truths about JFK and incubator babies and mobile production facilities and the rescue of Jessica Lynch.If you have any questions about this story…you are a batshit, paranoid, tinfoil, dog-abusing baby-hater and will be reviled by everyone. If you love your country and/or freedom, happiness, rainbows, rock and roll, puppy dogs, apple pie and your grandma, you will never ever express doubts about any part of this story to anyone. Ever.This has been a public service announcement by: the Friends of the FBI, CIA, NSA, DIA, SEC, MSM, White House, NIST, and the 9/11 Commission. Because Ignorance is Strength.

Jamey Caldwell is a former U.S. Army Ranger and Delta Force Operator who previously joined us on Episode 230 and was on the ground in Afghanistan not longer after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center hunting for Osama Bin Laden in the extensive cave complex of Tora Bora. We talk about this mission, the lessons learned, and what he would share with those in the fight today or who are preparing for the next fight. _______ Support a veteran owned business at https://veteranownedus.com today. If you are a veteran-owned business, join Veteran Owned US at https://veteranownedus.com/joinup/ This podcast is being brought to you by UnCanna. Visit http://mentorsformilitary.com/partners/uncanna/ and use the code Mentors4mil for your discount. Read our disclaimer at http://mentorsformilitary.com/disclaimer/ Join our new closed Facebook Team Room at https://www.facebook.com/groups/mentors4mil Visit https://www.patreon.com/join/Mentors4mil? to support our podcast. Follow Mentors for Military: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mentors4mil Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/mentors4mil Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/mentors4mil Homepage: http://www.mentorsformilitary.com

An ATF Agent deployed to the Gulf War as a part of the Army National Guard, Sean Hoover’s Apache Helicopter had crashed and disintegrated in a fireball. He and his co-pilot were severely injured. Taliban Fighters hunted for him as he struggled against the steep terrain in Afghanistan’s Tora Bora mountains for a long-shot chance at rescue. He was on an escape-and-evade mission and trapped Behind Enemy Lines.

Latif investigates the mystery around Abdul Latif’s classified time in Afghanistan. He traces the government’s story through scrappy training camps, bombed out Buddhas, and McDonald’s apple pies to the very center of the Battle of Tora Bora.  Could Abdul Latif have helped the most sought-after and hated terrorist in modern history, Osama bin Laden, escape? The episode ends with a bombshell jailhouse interview with Abdul Latif, the most reliable evidence yet of what was going on in this man’s mind in the months after 9/11. This episode was produced by Annie McEwen, Sarah Qari, Suzie Lechtenberg, and Latif Nasser. Fact checking by Diane Kelly and Margot Williams. Editing by Jad Abumrad and Soren Wheeler. With help from Neel Dhanesha, Kelly Prime, and Audrey Quinn. Original music by Jad Abumrad, Alex Overington, Annie McEwen, and Amino Belyamani.  Support Radiolab today at Radiolab.org/donate. 

The Other Latif Radiolab’s Latif Nasser always believed his name was unique, singular, completely his own. Until one day when he makes a bizarre and shocking discovery. He shares his name with another man: Abdul Latif Nasser, detainee 244 at Guantanamo Bay. The U.S. government paints a terrifying picture of The Other Latif as Al-Qaeda’s top explosives expert, and one of the most important advisors to Osama bin Laden. Nasser’s lawyer claims that he was at the wrong place at the wrong time, and that he was never even in Al-Qaeda. This clash leads Radiolab’s Latif into a years-long investigation, picking apart evidence, attempting to separate fact from fiction, and trying to uncover what this man actually did or didn’t do. Along the way, Radiolab’s Latif reflects on American values and his own religious past, and wonders how his namesake, a fellow nerdy, suburban Muslim kid, may have gone down such a strikingly different path.   Episode 4: Afghanistan  Latif investigates the mystery around Abdul Latif’s classified time in Afghanistan. He traces the government’s story through scrappy training camps, bombed out Buddhas, and McDonald’s apple pies to the very center of the Battle of Tora Bora.  Could Abdul Latif have helped the most sought-after and hated terrorist in modern history, Osama bin Laden, escape? The episode ends with a bombshell jailhouse interview with Abdul Latif, the most reliable evidence yet of what was going on in this man’s mind in the months after 9/11. This episode was produced by Annie McEwen, Sarah Qari, Suzie Lechtenberg, and Latif Nasser. Fact checking by Diane Kelly and Margot Williams. Editing by Jad Abumrad and Soren Wheeler. With help from Neel Dhanesha, Kelly Prime, and Audrey Quinn. Original music by Jad Abumrad, Alex Overington, Annie McEwen, and Amino Belyamani.  Support Radiolab today at Radiolab.org/donate. 

Happy Thanksgiving! John describes his thoughts on the new Star Wars Mandalorian series and how it resembles his Tora Bora days. Other topics include current events and all the craziness happening in the world. 

Bret Weinstein on The Jim Rutt Show, Barry O’Reilly on The Product Experience, Dave Farley on Engineering Culture at InfoQ, Jim Mattis on Coaching For Leaders, and Ben Mosior on Agile Uprising. I’d love for you to email me with any comments about the show or any suggestions for podcasts I might want to feature. Email podcast@thekguy.com. And, if you haven’t done it already, don’t forget to hit the subscribe button, and if you like the show, please tell a friend or co-worker who might be interested. This episode covers the five podcast episodes I found most interesting and wanted to share links to during the two week period starting November 25, 2019. These podcast episodes may have been released much earlier, but this was the fortnight when I started sharing links to them to my social network followers. BRET WEINSTEIN ON THE JIM RUTT SHOW The Jim Rutt Show featured Bret Weinstein with host Jim Rutt. Brett talked about the sustainability crisis (not necessarily related to climate) in which we are using resources and creating waste in a way that, mathematically, cannot continue indefinitely. Jim added that half of the mass of large animals on earth are now humans and domestic animals, most of which are cattle. He says this tells us that we are at or beyond the ability of our ecosystem to allow us to carry on the way we have been. Jim believes that the engine that is driving us toward eco-cide is the pursuit of money-on-money return powered by psychologically-astute advertising that got underway in the 1930s and is now reaching near-perfection with the highly-instrumented attention-hijacking mechanisms of social media. He compared it to the paperclip maximizer idea in artificial general intelligence. Brett says that the way you can tell that AI algorithms are out-of-control is to look at the behavior of people in the best position to understand the power of these algorithms. Defectors from Facebook or elsewhere describe the extreme measures they go through to retain control of the own lives in the face of algorithms they had a hand in writing. Apple Podcasts link: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/ep24-bret-weinstein-on-evolving-culture/id1470622572?i=1000456522456 Website link: https://jimruttshow.blubrry.net/bret-weinstein/ BARRY O’REILLY ON THE PRODUCT EXPERIENCE The Product Experience podcast featured Barry O’Reilly with hosts Lily Smith and Randy Silver. Lily asked Barry where his notion of “unlearning” came from. Barry said that while writing the book “Lean Enterprise,” he had an “aha” moment in which he realized that, while teaching people new things was tough, what was even harder was getting them to unlearn their existing behavior, especially if it made them successful in the past. Randy asked Barry what signs indicate when you are unlearning well as opposed to simply getting lucky. Barry says that a lot of people think knowing when to adapt is serendipitous or intuitive to other people, but there is a system you can learn that can make the process intentional and deliberate. People get stuck. They stick to the sets of behaviors that they know and understand or that feel comfortable to them. When those behaviors aren’t driving the results or outcomes that they are aiming for, often people’s natural reaction is to point at other people as the cause of the failure. If you’re serious about making progress, you have to own the results. You have to ask yourself what you can do differently to change the outcomes that you are getting. You need to get comfortable with being uncomfortable. You need to think big about the aspiration or outcome you are trying to achieve, but you start small as you start to relearn. Starting small creates safety. You get a fast feedback loop, learn quickly, and you feel successful as you try new behaviors. Barry asked Lily and Randy where most people in product roles spend most of their time and they said, “meetings.” They estimated that the effectiveness rate for such meetings was about 50%. As a product manager, Barry says, he would be trying to make that number better, but most people blindly walk into meetings and never make any changes to how meetings are run. Barry gets leadership teams to describe a better outcome and one small thing they can do to make things better. For meetings, one team came up with a simple step: five minutes before the meeting would end, the leader would stop it and ask the team how effective they thought the meeting was and what outcomes they were taking away from the meeting. When a leader starts to demonstrate a new behavior in meetings like pausing five minutes before the end and asking people how effective the meeting was, other people start to take these behaviors back to their teams. Role modeling these new behaviors in your organization can have a systemic impact because people see you trying out these new behaviors and that inspires them to be serious about making their own improvements. Berry went on to say that the belief that you cannot influence these kinds of changes needs to be unlearned. Apple Podcasts link: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/learning-to-unlearn-barry-oreilly-on-product-experience/id1447100407?i=1000456659421 Website link: https://www.mindtheproduct.com/learning-to-unlearn-barry-oreilly-on-the-product-experience/ DAVE FARLEY ON ENGINEERING CULTURE BY AT INFOQ The Engineering Culture at InfoQ podcast featured Dave Farley with host Shane Hastie. Shane asked about Dave’s talk about taking back software engineering. Dave says that software engineering is a term that is falling out of favor. People started to think of software development as a craft and of themselves as craftspeople. Working on high performance trading systems, he adopted practices that he considers a genuine engineering discipline and this made a dramatic difference in performance, effectiveness, quality, and speed of development. He says we’ve been too prescriptive in trying to define what software engineering means. An engineering discipline for software need to be general enough to still be true in a hundred years. He says we suffer in our industry from not having very many measuring sticks and we choose technologies, processes, and approaches based on who is the most persuasive person or guru. His talk was about five principles that are likely to be durable, broadly applicable, and broadly acceptable to people. First, we’ve learned that planned approaches don’t work. Working iteratively through a process of discovery is foundational. Second, we’ve discovered from continuous integration and delivery that fast, efficient, high quality feedback has a dramatic impact on our ability to move forward with confidence and quality. Third is being experimental and adopting the scientific method. Fourth is working incrementally, building software from a modular point of view, and growing complex systems from simple systems. Fifth is being empirical and testing what we build against reality, learning from that, and adapting. Shane asked whether these ideas are just common sense. Dave agreed that they are common sense but they are uncommonly practiced. He says that the majority of his own career in software development was built around guesswork. They would guess about what users wanted, guess about whether the software was going to be fast enough, resilient enough, and scalable enough, and guess about whether there were going to be bugs in it. They would guess about these things instead of testing these things as an experiment. He cited Extreme Programming and Continuous Delivery as genuine engineering disciplines. Shane pointed out that this requires a significant level of discipline that is rare in our industry. Dave agreed and gave the example of the team he worked with to build the trading system mentioned earlier. They were not only the best team he worked with, but also the most productive, solving problems in genuinely original ways, and they did it all by consciously adopting these techniques. It wasn’t because they were smarter than other teams, but because of their disciplined, agile approach. Shane asked how we can get a more experimental mindset in software development. Dave says we first need to get more data-driven and figure out useful measures to apply. For example, in high-performance software, we want to know things like how fast, what throughput, what latency, and what percentage of messages need to get through at a particular rate. The difference between an engineer and anyone else is that engineers spend a lot of time thinking about how things can go wrong. He gave the example of how he does Test-Driven Development: before he runs a test he has just written, he will say what error message he expects to get. This is a genuine experiment: he forms a hypothesis and he’s precise about the nature of the failure he is expecting. Shane asked Dave for his opinion about pair-programming. Dave considers pairing one of the most powerful tools an organization has to start becoming a learning organization and he considers pairing a foundational idea for establishing engineering rigor. Shane asked how we can convince the individual hero developer that it is a good idea to work with somebody else. Dave encourages his clients to experiment with pair-programming and you cannot do that for an hour or two. He encourages a minimum of a sprint or two and he combines it with rotating people who are in the pairs (also known as promiscuous pair-programming). In his experience, when you ask people who have never paired before it to pair, the majority do not want to. After they have done it for a reasonable period of time, the majority then want to keep doing it. Often, only a small number of people hate it and will never like it and companies need to make a tough decision about what to do about that. Apple Podcasts link: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/dave-farley-on-taking-back-software-engineering/id1161431874?i=1000456425449 Website link: https://soundcloud.com/infoq-engineering-culture/interview-dave-farley JIM MATTIS ON COACHING FOR LEADERS The Coaching For Leaders podcast featured Jim Mattis with host Dave Stachowiak. Dave asked about 1990 when Mattis was in the Saudi Arabian desert, preparing for an invasion that would become the first Gulf War. He employed a technique called the focused telescope. Mattis said that he faced the challenge of information flow. Leaders typically have sufficient information somewhere in their organization, but the pipes of information flow need to be open such that this information is available in time to make decisions. Mattis would take young, capable officers who would go out to units that were executing the mission and those officers would clarify and confirm to the attacking commanders the mission and report back to Mattis. This opened up the information flow in real-time to make better decisions. Dave asked where Mattis got the idea. Mattis said that every time you are promoted in the military you are given a new reading list and he got this idea from the readings. Dave then asked about 2001, when Mattis was in command of the marines in Afghanistan searching for Osama Bin Laden. Mattis said that he had shifted from being under a naval commander to an army commander and he did not spend the time getting to know his new commander. When intelligence came in that Osama Bin Laden was in the Tora Bora region, he knew they needed to stop him from escaping to Pakistan. Mattis had studied the Geronimo campaign of the U.S. cavalry in the late 1800s and saw how they set up communication stations to track activity on the border. He wanted to do the same to block escape routes in Tora Bora. He forgot the inform his boss and his boss did not understand the urgency of the situation or the plans to block Bin Laden’s escape. He says you have to ask yourself three questions everyday: “What do I know?”, “Who needs to know?” and “Have I told them?” Dave then asked about 2003 when Mattis was commanding a division to remove Saddam Hussein from power. One of his colonels was failing to move with haste. Mattis says that the officer, who he admires to this day, had a tempo that was less than needed at the time and Mattis determined that he was asking this officer to do something that was beyond his moral ability to do. Mattis said that war is a harsh auditor of your recruiting, your equipment, your training, and your leadership. He needed everyone in the fight and he knew he had to delegate the decision-making to the lowest competent level but it had to be consistent with his intent which was to move fast enough to confront the enemy with cascading dilemmas to prevent them from digging back in. So he removed that officer from command. Dave then jumped ahead one year to 2004 in Fallujah when four allied contractors were killed and Mattis had a plan to recover the bodies and track down those responsible. The President of the United States made the decision to attack the city instead. Dave asked Mattis what kept him from resigning in this situation. Mattis reminded us that the military has civilian control. When the civilian leadership says to do something, you keep faith with the constitution and get on with it. Mattis had read enough history to know the challenges associated with attacking a city with 300,000 innocent civilians. Mattis’s idea was to work with the other tribes in town that were repulsed by this terrorist activity and to use the spies they had in the city to hunt down the perpetrators. Given the known brutality of urban fighting, this was a better plan, but they were ordered to attack instead. Mattis said he could have resigned but the 19-year-old lance corporals in his army of 23,000 couldn’t quit and he wasn’t going to leave them on the battlefield. Apple Podcasts link: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/440-leadership-in-the-midst-of-chaos-with-jim-mattis/id458827716?i=1000456425891 Website link: https://coachingforleaders.com/podcast/leadership-chaos-jim-mattis/ BEN MOSIOR ON AGILE UPRISING The Agile Uprising podcast featured Ben Mosior with host Jay Hrcsko. Ben started out as a sysadmin and started taking more interest in the people side of technology. He now runs a company called Hired Thought where he makes systems more purposeful. Ben came across Wardley Mapping when people he was following in the DevOps community started to reference it. At the time, he was dealing with a difficult decision about whether to spend money that was tied to buying server hardware and thereby shifting attention away from the cloud that had been his focus. He learned that Wardley Mapping was a way to make sense of these kinds of situations and make a good call. He ultimately decided to decline to money and he now had an explicit strategy where before he had none. Wardley Mapping highlighted how much he originally didn’t know what he was doing. Ben describes a Wardley map as being two things: a visual way to represent a system oriented around users and a way to articulate how parts of that system are changing. It is a directed acyclic graph where position has meaning. The x-axis represents evolution and describes how the components of a business, such as activities, practices, data, and knowledge, change over time. They start in the uncharted space where nobody has seen it before, nobody understands it, and it fails much of the time. On the opposite end of the spectrum, there is the industrialized space where everything is known, is ordered, is boring, and failure is surprising. Having a way to express where a business component is between those two extremes informs how to treat that business component. They talked about the y-axis and how it represents the degree to which the business component is visible to the user. Ben says the y-axis is useful for thinking about what parts of the system the user cares most and least about. Mapping is intended to be an extremely collaborative activity. The map helps us share a common model for how we think about a space. Ben referenced George Box’s quote about all models being wrong and the scientist needing to be alert to what is importantly wrong about the model while ignoring those aspects whose approximate nature, or wrongness, makes the model no less useful. A map helps highlight when the model of your system is wrong in a fundamental way. When people look at a map and talk about it, you start to work towards consensus on understanding the system and start running into label conflicts. Producing the map artifact enables us to challenge it, talk to each other, and be transparent about what we think it is. The artifact itself is just one step in a five step process called the strategy cycle.  The five factors in the strategy cycle are purpose, landscape, climate, doctrine, and leadership. Purpose is the game we’re playing. It is why you come to work everyday. The landscape is the map. It represents the competitive landscape. Climate is the rules of the game, the external forces acting on that landscape that we don’t have control over. Doctrine is how we train ourselves, the principles that we choose to apply universally, such as always focusing on user needs. Last is leadership, the decision-making part that integrates all the rest. Ben says that we often jump straight from purpose to leadership and the process of sitting with the context of the other steps helps us make better decisions. Apple Podcasts link: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/wardley-mapping-with-ben-mosior-hired-thought/id1163230424?i=1000456388231 Website link: http://agileuprising.libsyn.com/wardley-mapping-with-ben-mosior-hired-thought LINKS Ask questions, make comments, and let your voice be heard by emailing podcast@thekguy.com. Twitter: https://twitter.com/thekguy LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keithmmcdonald/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thekguypage Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_k_guy/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheKGuy Website:

Jim Mattis: Call Sign Chaos Jim Mattis served more than four decades as an infantry officer in the United States Marines, rising to the rank of 4-star general. In 2017, he was nearly unanimously confirmed as the 26th Secretary of Defense of the United States, a position he held for almost two years. Today, he is a distinguished fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and the author of the new book with Bing West: Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead*. In this conversation, Jim and I discuss his career in the Marines and the leadership lessons that emerged during combat. Jim shares the mistake he made in soliciting support for his plan to capture Osama Bin Laden in Tora Bora and discusses how he handled disagreements on strategy in Fallujah. Finally, Jim recommends three books and reflects on the greatest threat to America today. Key Points Creating “focused telescopes” outside the normal chain of command were useful in discovering concerns that might not otherwise have become known. Keep key stakeholders in the loop with these three questions: What do I know? Who needs to know? Have I told them? “You cannot order someone to abandon a spiritual burden they’ve been wrestling with.” Even in a war zone, command was only a small portion of the daily tasks. Most of the time was spent coaching. “History teaches that we face nothing new under the sun.” Books will help you take advantage of the accumulated experiences of leaders who came before you. Resources Mentioned Meditations* by Marcus Aurelius Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant* by Ulysses S. Grant and Mark Twain Long Walk to Freedom* by Nelson Mandela Book Notes Download my highlights from Call Sign Chaos in PDF format (free membership required). Related Episodes The Way to Stop Rescuing People From Their Problems, with Michael Bungay Stanier (episode 284) Develop Leaders Before You Leave, with David Marquet (episode 405) Influence Through Overlapping Networks, with Sandie Morgan (episode 422) How to Start Seeing Around Corners, with Rita McGrath (episode 430) Discover More Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic.

Jim Mattis: Call Sign Chaos Jim Mattis served more than four decades as an infantry officer in the United States Marines, rising to the rank of 4-star general. In 2017, he was nearly unanimously confirmed as the 26th Secretary of Defense of the United States, a position he held for almost two years. Today, he is a distinguished fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and the author of the new book with Bing West: Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead*. In this conversation, Jim and I discuss his career in the Marines and the leadership lessons that emerged during combat. Jim shares the mistake he made in soliciting support for his plan to capture Osama Bin Laden in Tora Bora and discusses how he handled disagreements on strategy in Fallujah. Finally, Jim recommends three books and reflects on the greatest threat to America today. Key Points Creating “focused telescopes” outside the normal chain of command were useful in discovering concerns that might not otherwise have become known. Keep key stakeholders in the loop with these three questions: What do I know? Who needs to know? Have I told them? “You cannot order someone to abandon a spiritual burden they’ve been wrestling with.” Even in a war zone, command was only a small portion of the daily tasks. Most of the time was spent coaching. “History teaches that we face nothing new under the sun.” Books will help you take advantage of the accumulated experiences of leaders who came before you. Resources Mentioned Meditations* by Marcus Aurelius Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant* by Ulysses S. Grant and Mark Twain Long Walk to Freedom* by Nelson Mandela Book Notes Download my highlights from Call Sign Chaos in PDF format (free membership required). Related Episodes The Way to Stop Rescuing People From Their Problems, with Michael Bungay Stanier (episode 284) Develop Leaders Before You Leave, with David Marquet (episode 405) Influence Through Overlapping Networks, with Sandie Morgan (episode 422) How to Start Seeing Around Corners, with Rita McGrath (episode 430) Discover More Activate your free membership for full access to the entire library of interviews since 2011, searchable by topic.

GRP 135-Wherever you go, go with all your heart: A Special Missions Operator at war - We have a very special guest on for this week’s podcast. Joining me on today's episode is retired, Sergeant Major Jamey Caldwell. SGM Caldwell began his career as an Army Ranger before he went to selection to join the Army’s Special Missions Unit. On September 11th, 2001 he was forward deployed overseas. Within the coming weeks and months, his unit would be amongst the very first Americans to enter into Afghanistan. They were tasked with killing Osama Bin Laden. Bin Laden was tracked to the Tora Bora cave complex which is apart of the Spin Ghar mountain range in eastern Afghanistan. Caldwell would deploy into combat 14 times over the following 14 years in the war against terrorism. We discussed selection, leadership, mindset, and many other topics. Enjoy. You can find Jamey on all social media platforms @1minuteout www.1minuteout.com Follow Global Recon below:   www.Globalrecon.net https://www.instagram.com/igrecon https://www.instagram.com/blackopsmatter www.twitter.com/igrecon https://www.facebook.com/GlobalReconPodcast/   Chantel Taylor: https://www.instagram.com/mission_critical https://www.instagram.com/altern8rv   Tim Kolczak:
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Brian and Jake look into the history of Afghanistan and its reputation as the "Graveyard of Empires" as they share their views on continuing the war prompted by the 9/11 attacks. pbandjpod.compatreon.com/pbandjpodOn Social Media @pbandjpod

How can we tell a story that is ours but also belongs to millions of others? How can documentary film and engaged scholarship portray the realities of war? In episode 22 of the Imagine Otherwise podcast, host Cathy Hannabach interviews filmmaker Wazhmah Osman about the politics of memoir, what the trauma of war does to archival research, and Wazhmah's critically acclaimed documentary film, Postcards from Tora Bora, which recounts Wazhmah's return to her childhood home of Kabul, Afghanistan nearly 20 years after her family fled Cold War violence. Transcript and show notes: https://ideasonfire.net/22-wazhmah-osman

The hunt for Bin Laden in the mountains of Afghanistan; a Ku Klux Klan trial in 1965; the siege of Kut in World War 1; an unexpected alliance in 1980s Britain with Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners; and seminal alternative rock band the Velvet Underground's first gig. (Photo: Afghan fighters look out over a smoking valley after a US B-52 aircraft bombed a front line position in the mountains of Tora Bora in north-eastern Afghanistan. Credit: Associated Press)

After the Taliban fell from power in Afghanistan in the winter of 2001, the hunt for Osama bin Laden began in earnest. One American in particular led the search. He was CIA commander, Gary Berntsen, who had been tracking the al-Qaeda leader for years. In December 2001 he ordered a small group of special forces soldiers and Afghan fighters into the White Mountains close to Pakistan in the hope of cornering bin Laden in the caves of Tora Bora. (Photo: Afghan fighters look out over a smoking valley after a U.S. B-52 aircraft bombed a front line position in the mountains of Tora Bora in north-eastern Afghanistan. Credit: Associated Press)

LITOPIA AFTER DARK is back! And in typical style, our first guest for the new season spent four nights in a freezing cave in Tora Bora interviewing none other than Osama bin Laden. How’s that for openers? But that’s far from Abdel Bari Atwan’s only claim to fame. Born in Gaza, he is one of the world’s leading authorities on al-Qa’ida. Indeed, he wrote the definite book on the subject – The Secret History of al-Qa’ida. At a moment when the West seems poised for yet more intervention in a deeply unstable Middle East, this is just the right time to hear from an author, editor and journalist who knows the region, and its peoples, intimately. Bari is a regular guest on the BBC, Dateline, CNN and Al Jazeera. He has 740,000 twitter followers. His Rai Al Youn digital newspaper-- often called the Huffington Post of the Arab World-- boasts a circulation of almost half a million. He also spent four nights in a freezing cave in Tora Bora interviewing Osama bin Laden. And yet, no one seems to like Bari . He's outspoken on Israel being the enemy of the Arab world-- yet he advocates for a one state solution to the Palestinian crisis. He's blacklisted in Egypt and other Arab nations for cozying up to the infidel West, yet the state of Israel prevented him from returning to his native Palestine to visit his dying mother-- or go to her funeral. He can't even get a visa to visit the good ol' USA. Tonight he joins us to solve the Middle East crisis in 140 characters or less. He also shares his impassioned opinions on everything from drone strikes to the Alabama legal system to women's rights in the Arab World. Bari's new book is entitled Islamic State: The Digital Caliphate. >>>>>> Download the show as an audio file Subscribe in iTunes

LITOPIA AFTER DARK is back! And in typical style, our first guest for the new season spent four nights in a freezing cave in Tora Bora interviewing none other than Osama bin Laden. How’s that for openers? But that’s far from Abdel Bari Atwan’s only claim to fame. Born in Gaza, he is one of the world’s leading authorities on al-Qa’ida. Indeed, he wrote the definite book on the subject – The Secret History of al-Qa’ida. At a moment when the West seems poised for yet more intervention in a deeply unstable Middle East, this is just the right time to hear from an author, editor and journalist who knows the region, and its peoples, intimately. Bari is a regular guest on the BBC, Dateline, CNN and Al Jazeera. He has 740,000 twitter followers. His Rai Al Youn digital newspaper-- often called the Huffington Post of the Arab World-- boasts a circulation of almost half a million. He also spent four nights in a freezing cave in Tora Bora interviewing Osama bin Laden. And yet, no one seems to like Bari . He's outspoken on Israel being the enemy of the Arab world-- yet he advocates for a one state solution to the Palestinian crisis. He's blacklisted in Egypt and other Arab nations for cozying up to the infidel West, yet the state of Israel prevented him from returning to his native Palestine to visit his dying mother-- or go to her funeral. He can't even get a visa to visit the good ol' USA. Tonight he joins us to solve the Middle East crisis in 140 characters or less. He also shares his impassioned opinions on everything from drone strikes to the Alabama legal system to women's rights in the Arab World. Bari's new book is entitled Islamic State: The Digital Caliphate. >>>>>> Download the show as an audio file Subscribe in iTunes

Join us on the greatest manhunt in history as we talk about Zero Dark Thirty Podcast: DownloadSubscribe: iTunes | Miro | RSS The Radio Free Echo Rift podcast is your twice weekly resource for comics, movies, TV, and book reviews.   This pirate pop-culture podcast is brought to you from deep beneath the city of Philadelphia!  We have thirty minutes to record each episode - if we were ever caught, we'd be atomized for sure! Timestamps 00:28 - Waited to see Zero Dark Thirty (Politics) 03:53 - The News of UBL's Death and Reaction 06:58 - Mark Boal, The Battle of Tora Bora, Changing the Screenplay 12:13 - Feeling like a voyeur in the CIA / No Apologies 15:51 - The Character of Maya and Her Story Arc 18:49 - The Mythology around the CIA 22:01 - Kathryn Bigelow's Swagger 26:34 - The Soldiers / "I didn't want you guys" / The Raid 28:57 - Outro References Zero Dark Thirty by Kathryn Bigelow starring Jessica Chastain Written by: Mark Boal Directed by: Kathryn Bigelow Also Starring: Joel Edgerton, Chris Pratt Ask questions or share your feedback Leave us a voicemail 856.208.RIFT Email letters@echorift.com Tweet us @EchoRift Please connect with us Subscribe, rate, and review us on iTunes Follow @EchoRift on Twitter Follow Don Garvey on Twitter | Google+ Follow Mike Connelly on Twitter | Google+ Related Movie Episodes Echo Rift Podcast Episode 54: The Hobbit Echo Rift Podcast Episode 58: Django Unchained If you enjoy the Radio Free Echo Rift podcast, you will enjoy other Echo Rift Productions: Echo Rift Comics: Featuring Hurry the Rabbitoid Knight Kids on Comics Podcast: A fourth grader and his dad talk about comics Music for the Radio Free Echo Rift Podcast is provided by Home At Last, show them love by liking HAL on Facebook!

BBC Security correspondent Gordon Corera tells the untold tale of how the Americans hunted their most wanted man - from the caves of Tora Bora in Afghanistan through to his stronghold in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad.

In Episode #11, Billy Big Rig finally has to deal with the ardorous advances of Qaboos.  America invades Afghanistan, so Billy and Rafa have to accompany the Taliban to Tora Bora.  Rafa gets her ultimate revenge, Billy gets HIS ultimate revenge, then something bad happens! WARNING!  Billy has something of a potty mouth with neanderthal attitudes about politics and cultural diversity.  If you are without an appreciation for satirical humor, go pet a kitty and knit a doily.  If you download this and are offended, it's your fault.  Not Billy's!

The latest podcast I’ve produced for Faber has just gone up on their site. In it I talk to novelists Paul Auster and Nadeem Aslam about the books they published this autumn. You can find the podcast here. In Auster’s book, Man in the Dark, an ageing literary critic, August Brill, spends a night imagining a dystopian future in which America is embroiled in a civil war as a way of distracting him from the ghosts that trouble his sleep, not least of which is the death of his granddaughter’s boyfriend in Iraq. And Aslam’s Wasted Vigil brings an American CIA man, a Russian woman seeking her soldier brother, and a young Muslim fundamentalist to the home of an English doctor in the shadow of the Tora Bora mountains. This conjunction of characters enables Aslam to tell the story of Afghanistan’s recent past in a way that is by turns richly poetic and shockingly violent. There’s a longer version of the Auster interview here. And the full version of the Aslam interview is here.

Guests Jack Cole of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition and Mark Mauer of the Sentencing Project, plus Poppygate and "Tora Bora on my mind"

Guests Jack Cole of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition and Mark Mauer of the Sentencing Project, plus Poppygate and "Tora Bora on my mind"

Operation Enduring Freedom, specifically the 2001 war in Afghanistan, was the first step to President Bush's war on terror.  It is known as the greatest special forces war ever fought because of the US's heavy reliance on a few highly-trained operatives on the ground pinpointing targets for a high-tech force in the air.  The war was fought between the Coalition (consisting mostly of US forces)/Northern Alliance (Afghan rebels) and the Taliban (Afghan government)/Al Qaeda (led by Osama bin Laden).  The was was pretty much one-sided, with the Northern Alliance ground offensive easily sweeping through Kabul, the capital of the Taliban, and Kandahar, the military stronghold of the Taliban.  The one battle that the Coalition/Northern Alliance arguably lost was the Battle of Tora Bora, in which Osama bin Laden was cornered but somehow escaped. Now, it is the insurgency that is causing problems for the new government led by Hamid Karzai.  The war is seen as a "good war" by both sides of the political aisle. For more information, read: Foreign Affairs: The Afghan Quagmire (November 2001) Bush's Speech           Galenet Article One Galenet Article Two http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/enduring-freedom.htm Military History Podcast is sponsored by Armchair General Magazine and International Research and Publishing Corporation

CIA agent Gary Bertsen on his book - Jawbreaker, describing how Bin Laden was cornered at Tora Bora, yet somehow still escaped

CIA agent Gary Bertsen on his book - Jawbreaker, describing how Bin Laden was cornered at Tora Bora, yet somehow still escaped