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The Military-Industrial Circus

The Military-Industrial Circus is a regular column by Pulitzer-prize winning National Security Analyst Mark Thompson for CDI at POGO.

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The B-52 as Lazarus

analysis | June 12, 2019 | Mark Thompson

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How Not to Win the Afghan War

analysis | May 20, 2019 | Mark Thompson

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North Korea’s Déjà Rear Vu Mirror

analysis | October 2, 2017 | Mark Thompson
U.S. Troops 'Can Do,' But Their Leaders 'Won't Do'

analysis | September 25, 2017 | Mark Thompson
A Profile in Discouragement: Base Motives

analysis | September 18, 2017 | Mark Thompson
Navy Collisions Are Its Own Fault

analysis | September 11, 2017 | Mark Thompson
Of Shattered Brains and Minds

analysis | September 1, 2017 | Mark Thompson
Afghanistan and Eggs

analysis | August 28, 2017 | Mark Thompson
A Confederacy of Dunces

analysis | August 16, 2017 | Mark Thompson
President Trump’s Two War-Fighting Brains

analysis | August 14, 2017 | Mark Thompson