Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] of Staff of the U.S. Air Force to provide special Air Force support to certain clandestine CIA overflight operations. In April 1960, a member of the Chief’s Pentagon office staff was in Thailand overseeing a major series of long-range overflights into Tibet and far northwestern China. Later that spring, orders came down to stop […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] private is better than the public; in this case, that the private sector could implement change faster than the state, could shake-up the rigid bureaucracies of the Pentagon and MOD to create the new, dynamic forces for the rapidly changing strategic environments (etc etc, boilerplate, boilerplate). And hey, if we make a shit-load of […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] the alleged lead hijacker.4 That man, Mohammed Atta, was reportedly living in the home state of Graham and Goss while preparing to attack the Twin Towers, the Pentagon and whatever was the intended target of the fourth hijacked plane that day.5 Graham, a veteran legislator with a long interest in intelligence matters, was soon […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] President Kennedy practised nuclear brinksmanship twice: the authors discuss the Cuban missile crisis, but not the equally serious crisis over NATO access to Berlin, for which the Pentagon offered a slate of nuclear options. Lyndon Johnson differentiated himself from his Republican opponent, Barry Goldwater, over the nuclear issue and issued no nuclear threats during […]