Trump remains the only person I have ever written about who tried to bribe me. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. Senator Sam Nunn called the testimony profoundly disturbing, to say the least. And then he did something about it. When Saddam invaded Kuwait, in 1990, President George H. W. Bush gathered an allied coalition to drive the Iraqis out. There is still a lack of trust in the way elections are administered and the way these machines work. He left the choice to her, saying only, I want it really rich. Killing or capturing a murderous foe appeals to a sense of justice and provides momentary satisfaction, but eliminating a terrorist leader is not victory. When I first interviewed them, they did. He said in March 2009: "Nothing will ever replace language as the medium of thought, so nothing will replace the well-written, originally-reported story, or the well-reasoned essay."[10]. In this photo from 1976, Trump shows off plans for the future Grand Hyatt on East 42nd Street to a city official. BOWDEN: And if I could add something to that. Ad Choices, Charity Begins at Home: The Saga of Royal Rent and Monarchs As Landlords, Donald Trump Still Collects Six-Figure Pension from SAG-AFTRA: Report. All my books become best-sellers.. The service branches hated the idea. As SOCOMs leaders recognize, one cannot defeat a culturally rooted movement, such as al-Shabaab, by occasionally bumping off its leaders. Mark Bowden and Matthew Teague have a new book called "The Steal," documenting the rise of this conspiracy across the country and the lives destroyed by it. Mark Bowden October 2009 Issue Subscribe Now I f you happened to be watching a television news channel on May 26, the day President Obama nominated U.S. The Israelis were preparing an effort to find and destroy them, something Powell wanted to forestall. All rights reserved. And he was trying to make a good impression. Shes a genius!who had selected a sampling of fabrics for him to choose from, all different shades of gold. Bowden worked in many fields including humanitarian coordination in conflict and post conflict countries, development and recovery assistance. Two days after Iranian students stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Americas top brass convened in the Tank, a subterranean conference room at the Pentagon, to consider how the military might respond if President Jimmy Carter ordered it to act. Months later, they had to be; Carter was desperate. Now there are calls for federal and state investigations into the political organizing group. What kind of fucking idiot . That's simply true. The very things that made him so unappealing apparently now translate into wide popular support. And so he found it without actually too much trouble. The Grenada invasion, he said, was a clown show. JSOC had to rely on tourist maps for the most part, because military topographic maps were not available. Joining us now from Philadelphia is Mark Bowden, a national correspondent for the Atlantic magazine. Discover Mark Bowden's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. And so that means that the political activists and every person, really, has the same tools at their disposal as journalists have long had. Mr. The mission was manhunting. What McChrystal had done was give SOCOM an amazingly potent new tool. Something called the Delta Force already existed on paper. And I told them, Hey, if were not here doing a significant part of this, were not going to be able to claim our elite status and be first in line for resources and priority. There was also resistance from agencies whose support he needed, notably the CIA, which balked at moving interrogators, analysts, software engineers, and imagery experts out from under their direct control. ROBERTS: That's Justice Sonia Sotomayor, of course, on a panel discussion at Duke University Law School from 2005. Those who protest coercive methods will exaggerate their horrors, which is good: it generates a useful climate of fear. Part VI of the series, published on T&T in October 2012, noted that Cullen Murphy, Bowden's editor at Vanity Fair, declined to comment on the record to the blog's author about the allegations related to Bowden's article. I had already heard how hed blown his stack to Christie Hefner. She said: 2023 Cond Nast. ROBERTS: Well, of course, this - the rise of this, sort of, taking a video from another source and throwing it up on the air coincides with both the gaping maw of the 24-hour news cycle, but also, you know, lack of resources in those news rooms. Notably, its continued growth has been spurred by both success and failure. Saying he feared for the safety of 600 American medical students at the islands St. Georges University, President Ronald Reagan had ordered the military to seize control of Grenada and bring the students home. These guys were trained to do that as opposed to me trying to grab a bunch of boatswains mates and hand them a .45 and say, Follow me!. SOCOM was so active during Obamas tenurein addition to the large deployments in the Middle East, there were smaller units in Niger, Chad, Mali, South Korea, the Philippines, Colombia, El Salvador, Peru, and dozens of other countriesthat the Pentagon was leery of opening major new fronts. He has since published nine other books. I told him that I would not be interested. Beckwiths stock abruptly rose. It was hard to watch the way he treated those around him, issuing peremptory ordersPolish this, Tony. Barring the outbreak of a catastrophic war between major powers, SOCOM will likely remain a primary way America projects force, one that is well suited to the global, varied, and collaborative nature of war in the 21st century. This itself prompts questions about whether Americas vast outlays for the traditional military services are being well spent, and whether they could be reduced. what? And people noticed. Mark's ethnicity is Caucasian, whose political affiliation is currently a registered Republican; and religious views are listed as Christian. [1] Bowden is credited with pioneering nonverbal analysis of human behavior where it pertains to influence and/or persuasion. The import was clear. It's my fault. Made up of elite soldiers pulled from each of the main military branchesNavy SEALs, the Armys Delta Force and Green Berets, Air Force Combat Controllers, Marine Raidersit is active in more than 80 countries and has swelled to a force of 75,000, including civilian contractors. GURA: Mark, let me start with you. But where did it come from? In December 1998, Thomas had what he called a sensor-to-shooter epiphany in the closed back of a truck near Vrsani, a village in northeastern Bosnia. Rescuing hostages being its prime focus, JSOC was a key player in the invasion, which was over fast. The trip from genius to idiot was a flash. No one ever influenced me in my work for The Philadelphia Inquirer to slant a story in one direction or the other, and nor was I even aware of any effort to censor or shape the reports that went into the newspaper. In the new article published in the Atlantic magazine, journalist Mark Bowden says that several hours of Internet snooping by a blogger at his upstairs computer wound up shaping the public's. Democracy depends on a modicum of trust. The only helicopters large enough for the job couldnt be refueled in-flight, so the choppers had to perform a complex nighttime rendezvous in the Iranian desert with tanker aircraft. Mr. BOWDEN: young people who did it. Mark's ethnicity is unknown, whose political affiliation is currently a registered Republican; and religious views are listed as unknown. From her greed is good heyday to her post-divorce denouement cavorting with a series of freaky Italian lovers, it was Ivana, all along, who gilded the Trump name. Like most innovations, McChrystals was resisted, including by SOCOM itself. Or even the news source with an agenda, if you go to, you know, William Randolph Hearst is not a phenomenon - a new phenomenon. German special forces had provided a snarea net made of sturdy elastic that could capture even a speeding vehicle. It was the brainchild of Colonel Charlie Beckwith, a profane, hard-drinking, stubbornly tenacious Army officer who had served briefly with the British Special Air Service in Malaya. He has said that he welcomes questions about it from others. It's not journalism because the motivation is to further a political agenda, in this case, to attack ACORN. By Mark Bowden Lincoln as a frightened raccoon, Punch, January 11, 1862 ( Library of Congress) June 2013 Issue By nearly any measure personal, political, even literaryAbraham Lincoln set a. Mr. BOWDEN: Well, it was unearthed by a fellow named Morgen Richmond, who is - he's got a full-time day job, but in the evenings, he cruises the Internet and he basically looks for material to support his blogging on a conservative Web site called the verumserum.com. And I know that, you know, in the years that I worked - the decades that I worked at The Philadelphia Inquirer, that was a very rigidly enforced wall. Choppers would deliver the Delta team to Tehran and then would pluck the team and the rescued hostages from a stadium near the embassy. Stop the steal. The insurgency persisted and ultimately morphed into ISIS. McChrystal is not Sun Tzu. Is it any wonder he and the former president are already locked in a 2024 cold war? This past November, an NPR Marist Poll found that 75% of Republicans say Trump has a legitimate claim that fraud changed the results. GURA: Those are supporters of then-President Trump, and that's the rally cry they used while trying to prevent Congress and the vice president from certifying the election of Joe Biden. But within the military, it was seen as an embarrassment. Major General Richard Scholtes, who had been the JSOC commander at the time of the operation, testified about these and other failures in a closed session of a Senate Armed Services subcommittee in August 1986. Prior to his current appointment, he had . Im sure glad we have it, though.. He is a national correspondent for The Atlantic. The group was given Delta Force, a SEAL team, and a rotating Ranger battalion for specific missions. ROBERTS: Do you see any difference between this and a video press release? So there's no question that Trump was very directly steering all of this and in many instances stepped in personally to try to influence the outcome. He was like one of those characters in an 18th-century comedy meant to embody a particular flavor of human folly. It was the first time that we really started to see them in the field, he recalled. She became a piece of the larger stratagem. During Thomass tenure as SOCOM commander, from 2016 to 2019, the scope of his responsibility grew at a pace he calls frantic. New tasks were given to his already swollen organization, grafted on like afterthoughts, even as Obamas successor as president made several dramatic troop reductions or withdrawals, notably in Syria and Afghanistan. Now that's an arguable statement, but it's nowhere near the same statement as saying, you know, that she considers herself to be superior across the board. As a remedy, the Holloway Commission recommended the creation of a Joint Special Operations CommandJSOC, as it would be known. candidate for president of the United States? I know. The elections are very decentralized, and local officials are, for the most part, deeply patriotic and honest. SOCOM gave him the option of mowing the grass, at least for a time. JSOCs imagery was as intimate and vivid as a video games. While he was at college, he was inspired to embark on a career in journalism by reading Tom Wolfe's book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.[1]. . His latest outrageous edict on banning all Muslims from entering the country comes as no surprise to me based on the man I met nearly 20 years ago. Mark Rainer Bowden CMG was the United Nations Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan from September 2012 until February 2017. In the end, a staff of 70 was dispatched to Fort Bragg to handle administrative chores. And as you point out in the book, President Trump began laying the groundwork to claim a stolen election all the way back to 2016. The advent of nuclear weapons, in the 1940s, presented leaders with urgent ethical and strategic imperatives. Theyve become a major military playerand maybe a substitute for strategic thinking. He just reacts. Previously city included Clayton GA. Other names that Mark uses includes Mark Owen Bowden and Mark O Bowden. . It is wise of the President to reiterate U.S. support for international agreements banning torture, and it is wise for American interrogators to employ whatever coercive methods work. And his own input was not avidly sought. Four SEALs drowned on a preinvasion reconnaissance mission. Cuban and Grenadian military personnel were known to be on the island, but no one knew exactly where or how many, or what kind of arms they had. That doesn't make it completely illegitimate, but it does raise questions in my mind, as a journalist, that I would like to have answered before I would use that material. The Kuwaiti ships had to be boarded and protected, which was not the kind of work the regular Navy did. But JSOC depended on haphazard funding and relied on a grudging chain of command for missions. Round up the families of suspected terrorists? In a meeting with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Colin Powell, the chairman, handed a report to General Wayne Downing, a former Ranger and then JSOCs commander. Thomas was in the room when Pentagon commanders laid out the options, expecting the president to expand the mission. What did you make of it? Many of the heroes of the book, the people who stood up and said, no; we're going to tell the truth - were conservative people and even Trump supporters themselves. As Krstis vehicle neared, first a Russian convoy approached, then a local military-police vehicle. ROBERTS: Let's talk about that ACORN video, because it was also not produced by journalists, but by conservative activists. Those 20 or 30 people are other conservative bloggers, for the most part, some of whom have much larger - much more heavily trafficked Web sites like the Volokh Conspiracy and hotair.com. Accuracy and availability may vary. Trump would like to talk to you, she said. Pitbull is a pal, Carbone is for dinner, and. Mr. BOWDEN: I think, you know, it is, in part, the decline in resources for news organizations. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. Ron DeSantis: The Making and Remaking (and Remaking) of a MAGA Heir. You know, President Trump did inject himself into a lot of these very local issues. Questions would be raised later about whether these attacks were taking out real missile launchers or decoys fielded by Saddam, but theres no doubt that the results achieved were fast and dramatic, and kept Israel off the battlefield. U.S. Special Operators were involved in the successful hunt for the drug lord Pablo Escobar, the subject of Killing Pablo, and they conducted the raid that ended the career of Osama bin Laden, the subject of The Finish. From 1979 to 2003, Bowden was a staff writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer. It was guarding Kuwaiti oil tankers, which were a lifeline for Saddam Hussein, who was then locked in a seven-year war with Iranand being supported by the United States, his future enemy. That sort of animates this - doesn't it? Other events secured SOCOMs status. Ban all Muslims from entering the country? Image above, clockwise from top left: A U.S. Army Special Forces sniper, 1991; the aftermath of Operation Eagle Claw, the failed U.S. rescue operation in Iran, 1980; a marine during the invasion of Grenada, 1983; Captain Vernon Gillespie Jr. in Vietnam, 1964; soldiers on patrol at Camp Victory, in Somalia, 10 days after 18 Americans were killed during the Delta-led Battle of Mogadishu, 1993.*. Mr. BOWDEN: Well, I thought it was a very effective piece of political activism. In the past, the - if you heard a report or you read a story or you saw something on television, it was being presented to you by a journalist. Over the years, the U.S. has found out just how versatile that knife can be; the flexibility and competence of Special Ops have proved invaluable. And real journalists go out and do their own reporting. Thanks for joining us. How is this different? Thomas was already fielding units in virtually every European country bordering Russia and developing plans to deter China. We lucked out and came right on a Scud launcher two or three days after we started, Thomas recalled. Begin registering all Muslims in America? Of course, anyone who's worked with videotape or audiotape or interviewed people knows that how you choose to edit someone's remark can very - it does a whole lot to shape the content of what they appear to be saying. And it was - and kudos to the. But no. If I remember correctly, she's somebody who made a mistake, acknowledged the mistake, worked quickly to correct that mistake, and, yet it didn't end there. The Internet allows people to broadcast and publish things on their own. Mr. BOWDEN: Well, Verum Serum is read by, Morgan estimated, 20 or 30 people. The power to order pinpoint strikes and killings, often cloaked in secrecy, enables a president to act with minimal public scrutiny, and can tempt a president to substitute a few small, dramatic exploits for a more sustained strategy. Where did that one come from? Or until something goes wrongas in Niger in 2017, when four Special Ops soldiers were killed in an ambush. Mark Bowden currently lives in Brier, WA; in the past Mark has also lived in Renton WA, Fresno CA and Shoreline WA. This article appears in the April 2021 print edition with the headline How Special Ops Became the Solution to Everything., Private Schools Have Become Truly Obscene, American Special Ops Forces Are Everywhere. When al-Shabaab, the militant Islamist group in Somalia, showed signs of mounting strength, there was some worry that Obama might want to go in heavy. Using nuclear weapons? Apart from the comical ego, the errors, and the self-serving bluster, what you get from Trump are commonplace ideas pronounced as received wisdom. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. The researchers, Eitan Hersh, formerly a political scientist at Yale, and Gabrielle Malina, a graduate student at Harvard, identified about 180,000 clergy and were able to match about 130,000 to . He had been a West Point cadet when the disaster in Iran had unfolded, and had no idea then how important that episode would prove to be for the military or for himself. And so, you know, I think then, what we get down to and what the story in the Atlantic tries to - the point I'm trying to make is that the work that political activists do is motivated by a desire to further their cause - or in this case, to damage a nominee - as opposed to a journalist's objective, which is to try and get to the truth of a matter. He had just turned 50 and wasnt happy about it. The authoritative record of NPRs programming is the audio record. Another, Guests of the Ayatollah, about the Iran hostage crisis, detailed an abortive but pivotal Special Ops rescue mission. His refurbished, tech-assisted team found, fixed, and finished Zarqawi himself with an air strike at one of his hideouts north of Baghdad in June 2006. GURA: You mentioned Sheryl Guy. The very definition of JSOC changed, again. Mr. BOWDEN: Well, I just think that, you know, we are, as a society, adapting to an enormous, rapid change in technology. He considered himself the magazines beau ideal, and was inordinately proud of having been featured on the magazines cover some years before. Special Ops forces are popular for two reasons, McChrystal explained: One, because theyre sexy, and two, because they are viewed as a way to do things on the cheap, meaning you could send 10 brave people in to do a job instead of 100,000 soldiers, which has political costs and casualties. The reality, he went on, is that the nonsexy parts of Special Ops are the ones that may have more lasting impact. It has acquired its central role despite initially stiff resistance from the conventional military branches, and without most of us even noticing. How did Special Ops come to occupy such a central role in American military operationsand even foreign policy? The unheralded and mostly unknown Republicans active in local politics who refused to go along with Trump's lies and played a key role in preserving American democracy are the main subject of. We came skimming in over the ocean and had three out of the four helicopters crash, Thomas said. Candor and consistency are not always public virtues. Surveillance drones were still in the future, but Thomas did have a helicopter with a high-speed camera. Within the span of a few decades, the United States has utterly transformed its military, or at least the military that is actively fighting. I don't think that makes them journalists. Its intelligence network and aerial assets would give Kurdish, Iraqi, and Syrian fighters an overwhelming advantage against ISIS. Obviously, we dont want to do this, said Major Lewis Bucky Burruss, Beckwiths operations officer, as he briefed the brass in the Tank. We throw headquarters at problems. The masterly use of color? It conducts raids like the one in Syria in 2019 that killed the Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and carries out drone strikes like the one in Iraq in 2020 that killed Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani. But an opportunity for Special Ops quickly arose. This apparently worried him, because on the flight home a day later he had a proposition. He looked soft, from his growing jowls to the way his belt bit deeply into the spreading roll of his belly. In 1987, Stavridis was a lieutenant commander on a cruiser stationed in the Persian Gulf as part of Operation Earnest Will, the largest naval-convoy mission since World War II. In public he was still The Donaldstill rich, still working hard at being a symbol of excess. That effort, Desert Storm . This opened Obama to political attacks for leading from behind, which revealed a fundamental misunderstanding of the change under way. Youre a service-like entity.. [4] This series disputes elements of Bowden's July 2012 Vanity Fair article, "A Case So Cold It Was Blue". ROBERTS: Mark Bowden, a national correspondent for the Atlantic Magazine, joining us from our home in Philadelphia. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. William McRaven disagrees, arguing that SOCOMs strength is the joint flavor of it: You get diversity of thought, you get diversity of background, and theres nothing better to creating a good decision than having diversity. General Joseph Votel, who followed McRaven as SOCOM commander, is ambivalent about formal status, but believes that the SOCOM commander ought to be a member of the Joint Chiefs. The bottom line was plain: Were not ready. Big ships, strategic bombers, nuclear submarines, flaring missiles, mass armiesthese still represent the conventional imagery of American power, and they absorb about 98 percent of the Pentagons budget. It is also smart not to discuss the matter with anyone. TEAGUE: It does mirror preference by the powerful person as quickly disseminated throughout the country by social media such that you can have people showing up in Detroit or in Phoenix to raise their voices and protest and even riot. But McChrystal got what he wanted. That is how things stood in October 1983, when the U.S. invaded Grenada, a tiny island in the Caribbean. * This article originally stated that a special Israeli unit stormed a hijacked airliner on the tarmac in Entebbe, Uganda, in 1976, to rescue hostages. The Florida governor is the Fox-loving, lib-owning successor-in-waiting to Donald Trumps cult of personality. Hue 1968 is a book of history, the history of an era when a nation was lied to by its leaders and thousands of young Americans in uniform were sacrificed for no clear reason. He is best known for his book Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War (1999) about the 1993 U.S. military raid in Mogadishu, Somalia. Trump took exception to the design of the spaces between courts. The history of its rise is telling. By seeking out dramatic military missions, I have chronicled the movement of Special Ops from the wings to center stage. SOCOM was also tasked with developing contingencies for conflict with Iran and North Korea. The targeting engine itself, he said, is not an end-all, be-all. Mark's relationship status is married. But it's a little different. An accident at the landing site ignited a fireball that killed eight servicemen. The Green Berets survived as an elite unit, but many ambitious Army officers considered a berth in Special Forces a career-killer. He had agitated so long to create a similar multipurpose commando unit within the U.S. military that he had alienated many up the chain, which helped explain why he was still a colonel when he retired. His trademark techniques are used by top leaders and political players around the world who want to gain an advantage beyond wordswhen they speak. ROBERTS: So is this a one-way curve? He has written for Men's Journal, The Atlantic Monthly, Sports Illustrated, and Rolling Stone over . SOCOM, whose genealogy can be traced to a small hostage-rescue team in 1979, has grown to fully inhabit the in-between space. Over a long weekend on assignment for Playboy magazine, Mark Bowden found that behind the garish Trump faade lies only more ugliness. On assignment for Playboy magazine, joining us now from Philadelphia is Mark Bowden found that behind the trump. See any difference between this and a mark bowden political affiliation press release had a proposition Remaking ) of MAGA... 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