John Weisman is one of the select company of writers to have had books on both the New York Times fiction and nonfiction bestseller lists. His acclaimed short stories have twice been selected for Best American Mystery Stories.
A former journalist, Weisman has worked in more than three dozen countries. His latest book, the shadow war thriller Jack in the Box, is now available in hard cover through HarperCollins/William Morrow, bookstores nationwide, and Amazon.com. Last
year's bestselling SOAR has just been released in paperback.
He can be emailed at blackops@johnweisman.com, or reached through his website, www.johnweisman.com.
May 10, 2004: The Worst is Yet to Come - "This is the way it's taught in general's school: Whenever scapegoats are needed, One: find the closest enlisteds; Two: throw the book at them."
March 12, 2004: Letter to Kerry - "Dear Sen. Kerry: I'm puzzled and I'm troubled by your actions, both as a senator and as a candidate."
February 10, 2004: Intelligence Failure? - "Uncovering the truth about CIA's 9/11 and WMD failures would be devastating to a Congress that has for decades abdicated its intelligence oversight responsibilities."
November 21, 2003: True Leadership - "How should the military deal with the sorts of risk-taking, loyalty-down-the-chain-of-command, audacious behavior that currently brings censure and courts martial? Maybe an object lesson from the Israeli navy will demonstrate."
August 5, 2003: Night of the Long Knives - "Many of the guys with stars on their shoulders and scrambled eggs on their hats resent Rummy because he has demanded results, not excuses. He wants his generals to think like war-fighters, not obfuscate like bureaucrats. He abhors the sycophantic lickspittles with whom too many generals surround themselves. He sees staff positions multiplying like bacteria in a Petri dish, and remembers a World War II military that was lean, mean—and victorious"
July 17, 2003: Memo to George J. Tenet/DCI - "Alabama Senator Richard Shelby is right. You need to be replaced. So resign. Do it now. Do it before things at Langley get screwed up any worse than they're already screwed up."
July 2, 2003: Dear Mr. Rumsfeld - Are You Listening?
- "So what's the bottom line? 'Soldiers,' the report concludes, 'still spend too much of their own money to purchase the quality packs pouches belts underwear socks and gloves they believe they need for mission success and comfort.'"
June 18, 2003: Hollywood Hits
"I'm going to tell you who's really at fault in promoting all these impossibly high expectations about progress in Iraq."
June
4 , 2003: Gold Gone to Waste
"Lyons testified that he has absolutely no doubt about the authenticity
or reliability of the message, which he took immediately to the secretary
of the navy and [the] chief of naval operations, who viewed it, as
he did, as a '24-karat gold document'."
May
28, 2003: Car Trouble in the CIA
"Now, Mahmoud had become a spy for the United States at the risk
of his life not for money. He spied on his own government simply because
he loved America."
May 16, 2003: Saudi Arabia, Da Kingdom
"When President G.W. Bush declared war against global terrorism
in the days after 9/11 he made clear the fact that the United States
would treat any country that harbored or supported terrorism as an
enemy. So why, then, are we still so friendly with Saudi Arabia?"
May 7, 2003: The Garb of a Warrior
"Wake up, Senator Byrd. President George W. Bush assumed the garb of a warrior because he IS a Warrior."
April 30, 2003: A Broken Instrument
"It is time for Colin Powell to bring the same kind of out-of-the-box thinking, innovation, and risk-taking to State that Don Rumsfeld brought to another imperfect instrument of bureaucracy, the Pentagon."
April 22, 2003: When Ruthlessness Is Good
"Our intelligence agencies must think outside the box, using covert action and black ops to disrupt terrorist command and control structures and financial networks, and find proactive ways to decapitate terrorist cells and kill terrorists."
April 9, 2003: Black Ops
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The lesson here is simple. In the past two decades, our Military has advanced light years. Our ability to find, track, target, and kill and do it RIGHT NOW has taken a quantum leap."
