Missy Ryan
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What Colin Powell Did on 9/11 (opens the original)
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Secretary of State Colin Powell was having breakfast with Peru’s president in Lima’s historic center on September 11, 2001, when an aide passed him a note to inform him that a plane had struck the World Trade Center. Minutes later, he received a second note. “Oh my God,” Powell said aloud. Later that morning, as the scale of the destruction in New York and Washington was starting to become clear, Powell delivered remarks in a cavernous hotel ballroom. Fears of additional attacks had forced the c
Dan Driscoll’s Parting Shot (opens the original)
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Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term. During a White House meeting last week, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll brought his concerns about the future of the Army under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directly to President Trump—a sign of how far tensions between the two Pentagon leaders had escalated, and of the dysfunction inside the building, four people familiar with the conversation told us. Trump was surprised when Driscoll told him how
Ukraine’s Short-Lived Comeback (opens the original)
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Earlier this summer, Ukraine had finally seized the initiative in its punishing four-year war. President Volodymyr Zelensky had plenty of dramatic victories and technological advances to tout to his Western backers as he made the case that Russia can be defeated. His clash with Donald Trump in the Oval Office last year had been eclipsed by more recent encounters in which the U.S. president seemed open to helping Ukraine prevail. After closed-door talks with Zelensky in Turkey last month, Trump o
A Tragedy in Iran Might Persuade Hegseth to Change Course (opens the original)
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Sign up for our newsletter about national security here. When President Trump plucked Pete Hegseth from Fox News to be his secretary of defense, Pentagon officials scrambled to get with their new boss’s pugnacious program: Lethality and battlefield swagger were in; “wokeness” and operational restraint were out. Hegseth’s subsequent purge at the Defense Department included the dramatic downsizing of staff dedicated to avoiding civilian casualties in war. They had been part of a military-wide syst
The Top Gun: Maverick Theory of Pete Hegseth (opens the original)
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Sign up for Inside the Trump Presidency, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump term. When audiences first met Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in 1986’s Top Gun, he was a lieutenant at the Navy’s elite school for fighter pilots. The movie doesn’t give his age, but that would probably have put Maverick, as he teamed up with his buddy Goose in the skies over California and the glistening volleyball pits by the sea, in his mid-to-late 20s. When Top Gun: Maverick was released, 36 years later,
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