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Mark Thompson

National Security Analyst

Thompson has been covering U.S. national security for four decades, including from 1994 to 2016 as senior correspondent and deputy Washington bureau chief at TIME Magazine.

Mark worked at TIME from 1994 to 2016. Before that, he covered military affairs for the late Knight-Ridder Newspapers (including the Detroit Free Press, the Miami Herald, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the San Jose Mercury-News) for eight years.

Prior to Knight-Ridder, Mark reported from Washington for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram for seven years. During that time, he and his paper were awarded the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for a series of articles on an uncorrected design flaw aboard Fort Worth-built Bell helicopters that had killed nearly 250 U.S. servicemen.

Latest Work

  • Will Third Time Be the Charm for Pentagon’s Star Wars Bullet?

    analysis | October 10, 2019

  • The Broken Leg of America’s Nuclear Triad

    analysis | September 9, 2019

  • The Incredibly Shrinking Defense Industry

    analysis | August 1, 2019

  • The B-52 as Lazarus

    analysis | June 12, 2019

  • How Not to Win the Afghan War

    analysis | May 20, 2019

  • JASON and the Bureaucrats

    analysis | May 2, 2019

  • A New Kind of Nuclear War

    analysis | April 16, 2019

  • “Fill ‘Er Up!” Why It’s Taken the Pentagon Nearly Two Decades to Buy a New Aerial Tanker

    analysis | March 19, 2019

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