Frank Snepp

Iran: The Logical Coda to Vietnam Bury Congress, dead or alive.

Iran: The Logical Coda to Vietnam
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Looking for Murrow in MAGAland “Good night, and Good Luck” to journalism as it once purported to be.

Looking for Murrow in MAGAland
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License it and forget it: the Trump “brand” as foreign policy Lots of luck, trying to solve the world’s problems by erecting logos.

License it and forget it: the Trump “brand” as foreign policy
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Against the Gaslight Trump's darkness visible.

Against the Gaslight
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Venezuela and the Long Drift Toward Executive Terror Let’s finally call out Trump policies for what they are.

Venezuela and the Long Drift Toward Executive Terror
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Epstein, Israel, and the Forbidden Intelligence Question James Bond caper or Lolita Book 2 – how do we describe our greatest national obsession?

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A Journalist Apart, One of a Kind They don't make them like Peter Arnett any moe.

A Journalist Apart, One of a Kind
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In Defense of Nick Ut — and the Integrity of Witness The truth emerges slowly like images in a developer’s pan.

In Defense of Nick Ut — and the Integrity of Witness
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The Missing Tyrant: Watching “One Battle After Another” as the Real-World Burns A personal, political and cinematic lament.

The Missing Tyrant: Watching “One Battle After Another” as the Real-World Burns
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Double-Tapping Morality and the Constitution Sending SEAL Team 6 to do the dirty work,

Double-Tapping Morality and the Constitution
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Illegal Orders, Costly Defiance When military grunts rightly defy illegal orders, it’s not just Trump who grumps.

Illegal Orders, Costly Defiance
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From Truman to Trump: The Imperial Presidency Triumphs Even Clinton, Obama and Biden wielded a kingly scepter when they had to.

From Truman to Trump: The Imperial Presidency Triumphs
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A Protest Vote Against Punishment Politics In this off-year shockwave, why the voters broke blue.

A Protest Vote Against Punishment Politics
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Trump Trapped by Prisoners of a War That Isn’t Two alleged Narcos captured at sea expose DHT's latest excess and its danger to us all.

Trump Trapped by Prisoners of a War That Isn’t
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Bolton Blues: Trump’s Revenge Meets a Supreme Court Irony An unlikely lifeline for a Trump booster-turned-boogeyman.

Bolton Blues: Trump’s Revenge Meets a Supreme Court Irony
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Trump’s Ceasefire and Debt to Biden Is it simply a photo-op or something truly promising, thanks to Uncle Joe?

Trump’s Ceasefire and Debt to Biden
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Is King Chaos Self-Destructing – Again? Trump is shooting from the hip so often that the ricochets threaten to ping him politically.

Is King Chaos Self-Destructing – Again?
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Prisoners of Fire -- Part II: Emerging from the ashes Pacific Palisades, CA, January 25-September 16, 2025: Imagine you've survived the flames only to be condemned to potentially toxic ruins.

Prisoners of Fire -- Part II: Emerging from the ashes
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Prisoners of Fire - Part I: Surviving the California Inferno Pacific Palisades, CA, January 7, 2025: Imagine you are running for your life in gridlocked traffic as the flames close in.

Prisoners of Fire - Part I: Surviving the California Inferno
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CIA Okays Release of the “Last” Vietnam Spy Story CIA censors are known to work in slow and wondrous ways, even when the subject is ancient history.

CIA Okays Release of the “Last” Vietnam Spy Story
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Trump’s “Joe McCarthy” Act -- And How to Fight Back The Red Scare was both a premonition of Trump and a prescription for pushback.

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Epstein, Maxwell, and the Intelligence Question We’re Not Asking Some conspiracy theories, unsavory though they may be, deserve a second sniff.

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LA’s Firestorms: Political Lessons for Our Survival If that headline seems overblown and apocalyptic, it’s just being factual, as anyone who survived SoCal’s latest ordeal by wind and flame can attest.

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LA’s Firestorms: Political Lessons for Our Survival If that headline seems overblown and apocalyptic, it’s just being factual, as anyone who survived SoCal’s latest ordeal by wind and flame can attest.

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Damning Bibi Dangerously: When does criticism of his Gaza policies become antisemitism? Even an ex-Israeli prime minister has overstepped Trump's speech codes targeting hate speech on campus.

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Damning Bibi Dangerously: When does criticism of his Gaza policies become antisemitism? Even an ex-Israeli prime minister has overstepped Trump's speech codes targeting hate speech on campus.

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William F. Buckley admitted breaking CIA’s rules—three years too late Playing favorites with national security makes a mockery of the game.

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Glitter at the End of the Tunnel: Saigon’s 16 Tons of Gold, Lost, then Found As the guy who drove President Thieu to his final flight out of Saigon, I know a thing or two about whether he took the national treasury with him.

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Kent State In Memoriam Each year I update this post to remind myself to remember -- all the more timely given the current campus strife and the 50th anniversary of the fall of Vietnam .

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Kent State In Memoriam Each year I update this post to remind myself to remember -- all the more timely given the current campus strife and the 50th anniversary of the fall of Vietnam .

Kent State In Memoriam
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