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The Atlantic
January 6, 2018
Presidential Policy: Even in a week overshadowed by the feud between President Trump and his former chief strategist Steve Bannon, the executive branch has succeeded in moving some policies forward. The FBI reportedly reopened an investigation of the Clinton Foundation; the Department of theÃÂ ...
The Atlantic
January 5, 2018
In the early 1960s, at the dawn of the Kennedy administration, Edward Lansdale had an enviable reputation as a can-do covert-action specialist. ... Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, who took on Castro's overthrow as his personal project, put intense pressure on Lansdale to achieve results. At meetingÃÂ ...
Green Left Weekly
January 3, 2018
The "meaning" of the Vietnam war is no different from the meaning of the genocidal campaign against the Native Americans, the colonial massacres in the Philippines, the atomic bombings of Japan, the levelling of every city in North Korea. The aim was described by Colonel Edward Lansdale, the famousÃÂ ...
New York Times
December 29, 2017
In late December 1967, the government of South Vietnam announced a reorganization of its war effort against the country's Communist insurgency. Effective immediately, all South Vietnamese counterinsurgency activities became part of a new program known as Phuong Hoang, a reference to a magicalÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
December 22, 2017
The biggest blowback has come at the United Nations, where the General Assembly has now passed — by a vote of 128 to 9, with 35 abstentions and ... Foreign Relations, a contributing writer to Opinion, and author of the forthcoming “The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy inÃÂ ...
Center for Research on Globalization
December 20, 2017
In April of 1961, US planning for the Cuban Project aka Operation Mongoose began and was to stated to have been led by Air Force General Edward Lansdale, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and others. The all-encompassing covert war program (seen in part in the image below) would be set inÃÂ ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
December 19, 2017
His forthcoming book is “The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam.” ... barrage is laying the groundwork for Trump to pardon his aides and try to fire Mueller — along, presumably, with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who oversees the Russia investigation.
Foreign Policy (blog)
December 11, 2017
He apparently attended Hillary Clinton's election night party and sent an email to acting Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates saying he was “proud” of her for refusing to enforce Trump's initial ban on ... His forthcoming book is “The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam.”.
Foreign Policy
October 6, 2017
The United States took the lead in bringing this about by creating institutions such as the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (forerunner of ...
Socialist Worker Online
October 4, 2017
... military figure interviewed by Burns and Novick, former Air Force Gen. ... is the lanky figure of Edward Lansdale, the CIA's man in Saigon, the ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
October 2, 2017
... of the worst and most one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered into,” he told the United Nations General Assembly on Sept.
Foreign Policy (blog)
September 26, 2017
At the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 19, he said that if the U.S. “is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to ...
RT
September 23, 2017
General William Westmoreland, the American commander, referred to ... The aim was described by Colonel Edward Lansdale, the famous CIAÂ ...
teleSUR English
September 21, 2017
General William Westmoreland, the American commander, referred to ... The aim was described by Colonel Edward Lansdale, the famous CIAÂ ...
Chicago Tribune
September 20, 2017
... during the United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday, Sept. .... Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam.”.
Newsweek
September 17, 2017
... Air Force colonel and CIA agent Edward Lansdale began working to .... So, too, the legendary General Vo Nguyen Giap, the hero of Dien ...
The Liberty Conservative
March 21, 2017
“Y” is General Edward Lansdale, a counter-insurgency expert who, unfortunately for Stone's thesis that Kennedy was killed by “Y” and his ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
February 21, 2017
So much for the hopes that Trump's seasoned cabinet appointees — especially retired Gen. John Kelly at Homeland Security, retired Gen.
Socialist Worker Online
October 4, 2017
... military figure interviewed by Burns and Novick, former Air Force Gen. ... is the lanky figure of Edward Lansdale, the CIA's man in Saigon, theÃÂ ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
October 2, 2017
... of the worst and most one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered into,” he told the United Nations General Assembly on Sept.
RT
September 23, 2017
General William Westmoreland, the American commander, referred to ... The aim was described by Colonel Edward Lansdale, the famous CIAÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
September 21, 2017
General William Westmoreland, the American commander, referred to ... The aim was described by Colonel Edward Lansdale, the famous CIAÃÂ ...
Chicago Tribune
September 20, 2017
... during the United Nations General Assembly, Wednesday, Sept. .... Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam.”.
Newsweek
September 17, 2017
... Air Force colonel and CIA agent Edward Lansdale began working to .... So, too, the legendary General Vo Nguyen Giap, the hero of DienÃÂ ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
September 5, 2017
Clearly there's a reason why he's a general and I'm not. ... Gen. Mohammad Zaman Waziri, the mustachioed corps commander, comes in with a .... His forthcoming book is “The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and theÃÂ ...
History News Network (HNN)
August 23, 2017
... Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam.” ... But when I visited Afghanistan a few days ago, traveling with Gen.
Foreign Policy (blog)
August 23, 2017
Less noticed by the general public, but not by the Foreign Service, is the fact that Tillerson didn't vociferously protest the expulsions either.
New York Times
August 22, 2017
But when I visited Afghanistan a few days ago, traveling with Gen. ... of senior officials by the country's crusading attorney general, Farid Hamidi. ... Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam.”.
Foreign Policy (blog)
August 18, 2017
... be against General Lee and be for General Washington, there literally is ... worthy of special recognition it isn't Lee but his subordinate, Gen.
Napa Valley Register
August 16, 2017
... Ku Klux Klan, and white-supremacists in general, but not Trump: He ... His forthcoming book is "The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale andÃÂ ...
Chicago Tribune
August 15, 2017
... Ku Klux Klan, and white-supremacists in general, but not Trump: He ... His forthcoming book is "The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale andÃÂ ...
Foreign Policy
August 8, 2017
The general has offended the far-right by removing several of their champions from the NSC staff and the Russians by urging a stronger lineÃÂ ...
Chicago Tribune
July 25, 2017
... to force the attorney general from office so that Trump could appoint a ... His forthcoming book is "The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale andÃÂ ...
New York Times
April 25, 2017
... called perhaps the “most destructive general in American history.” Taylor instructed the famed counterinsurgency expert Edward Lansdale to “put all the ... Gen. Maxwell Taylor, in dark shirt, walking beside Col. Nguyen VanÃÂ ...
New York Times
April 14, 2017
An Israeli general made a similar point to me after the defeat of the second intifada, saying, “Better to fight terror with an M-16 rather than anÃÂ ...
The Liberty Conservative
March 21, 2017
“Y” is General Edward Lansdale, a counter-insurgency expert who, unfortunately for Stone's thesis that Kennedy was killed by “Y” and hisÃÂ ...
Daily Pakistan (blog)
March 6, 2017
Edward Lansdale. Though apparently in the army, Lansdale was a CIA employee and retired as a Major General. .... Gen. Charles Cabell, Deputy Director CIA, requested that a squadron of helicopters be moved from ThailandÃÂ ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
February 21, 2017
So much for the hopes that Trump's seasoned cabinet appointees — especially retired Gen. John Kelly at Homeland Security, retired Gen.
Foreign Policy (blog)
February 7, 2017
... was the very word he employed in firing acting Attorney General Sally Yates over her refusal to defend his indefensible immigration diktat.
Chicago Tribune
December 31, 1999
No doubt Trump hopes that the general can straighten out what ails the ... His forthcoming book is "The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale andÃÂ ...
Consortium News
March 25, 2017
A classic case was Gen. Edward Lansdale - considered the father of modern psyops - draining the blood from a dead Filipino rebel in such a way so the dead rebel's superstitious comrades would think that a vampire-like creature was on the prowl.
The Liberty Conservative
March 21, 2017
"Y" is General Edward Lansdale, a counter-insurgency expert who, unfortunately for Stone's thesis that Kennedy was killed by "Y" and his cohorts because the president was about to withdraw the American advisers from Vietnam, was actually less of a hawkÃÂ ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
March 8, 2017
Quite apart from its specifics, the WikiLeaks release changes the subject after a bad few days for Trump highlighted by Attorney General Jeff Sessions's decision to recuse himself from any Kremlingate probe after he was revealed to have lied under oath ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
February 21, 2017
So much for the hopes that Trump's seasoned cabinet appointees - especially retired Gen. John Kelly at Homeland Security, retired Gen. James Mattis at Defense, and former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson at State - could direct administration policy on aÃÂ ...
Review Nepal News
February 18, 2017
*Dr. Thomas A. Marks, a member of the advisory board of Mantraya, is Distinguished Professor and Major General Edward Lansdale Chair of Irregular Warfighting Strategy at the College of International Security Affairs (CISA) of the National DefenseÃÂ ...
WhoWhatWhy / RealNewsProject (blog)
January 25, 2017
But, as the Watergate investigations by a Special Prosecutor advanced on Nixon's closest advisers - Attorney General Mitchell, former Commerce Secretary Stans, his chief of staff Haldemann, and adviser Erlichman, counselor Colson - all the President ...
Commonweal
January 23, 2017
Gen. Edward Lansdale.) Catholics, whether Cubans or North Americans, spent little time thinking about the Second Coming or the antichrist; however poorly catechized, the idea of Havana Catholics drawing such conclusions beggars belief.
Foreign Policy (blog)
January 18, 2017
Only a handful of other hires have been announced so far at the NSC, and the most prominent one is, of course, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the national security advisor who does not inspire confidence with his tweets promoting discredited ...
Foreign Policy
December 13, 2016
His forthcoming book is "The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Experience in Vietnam. ... Gen. Gunnar Karlson, the chief of Sweden's main foreign intelligence agency, who warns that Russian subversion "is a serious threat because in ...
Foreign Policy (blog)
December 5, 2016
President-elect Donald Trump has made a terrific choice - his best one yet - in choosing retired Gen. James Mattis as his secretary of defense.
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