ZETEO
A former Pentagon official on how America is wholly unprepared for this new and dangerous conflict.
ZETEO
Trump using the military to solve every problem is a backward step.
RESPONSIBLE STATECRAFT
Are US special forces going to be used for drug interdiction in Mexico, or even on American streets, next?
WES J. BRYANT
Americans need to face reality. The U.S. military is in the hands of a volatile, aspiring dictator, whose only decision calculus in employing its incredible might is how powerful it will make him look in a given moment and how feared and respected he will become…
BOSTON GLOBE
Diversity. Care for civilians. Loyalty to the Constitution. All the things Trump and Hegseth are undermining…
THE HILL
In the months since Israel launched its offensive into Gaza in the wake of the brutal terrorist attacks by Hamas on Oct. 7, the Israeli government and military have inflicted a catastrophic level of civilian harm on the Palestinian population...
THE HILL
Nearly three months into Israel’s war in Gaza, the casualty data that has emerged is deeply troubling to me as an expert in close air support and targeting...
WES J. BRYANT
I spent a military career in the war on terror as a US Air Force Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC)—the airpower experts who coordinate and call in airstrikes…
IRREGULAR WARFARE INITIATIVE
Explosive reports from major news outlets in September declared that, last year, tech guru and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk had shut down the Starlink service for the Ukrainian military in Crimea, thwarting Ukraine’s ability to conduct a major counteroffensive against the Russian navy…
MODERN WAR INSTITUTE
In the United States, we often analyze distant armed conflicts and counterterrorism efforts as if watching from a remote observation tower…
REAL CLEAR DEFENSE
June 2014 – Baghdad. We were treading a thin line, and we all knew it. I was the senior enlisted joint terminal attack controller for the 300-member special operations task force sent to Iraq to quell the rising threat of ISIS…
TASK & PURPOSE
They started the US war against ISIS. Now they have an important message for Trump on abandoning the Kurds…
AIR FORCE TIMES
It was late August 2014. I was one of the handful of American military forces in Baghdad, Iraq’s capital. Only a few months before, ISIS laid siege…
Sky News
In a powerful new documentary, Wes J. Bryant speaks to the truth behind the Minab school bombing. He assisted Sky News in their months long on-the-ground investigation into the U.S. bombing of a primary school on the first day of the Iran War in which 156 people were killed — including 120 children and 26 of their teachers…
Costs of War
In June, three experts published a research report on Israel's precise and lethal use of quadcopter drones mounted with sniper rifles to fire on Palestinian children, documenting a disturbing pattern — multiple cases of well-targeted, single-round shots against children in Gaza fired from Israeli quadcopters…
Sky News
Wes J. Bryant joins Sky News for a special on the Iran War where he discusses the tragic U.S. strike against an elementary school in Minab and continued lack of accountability from both senior military leadership and the Trump administration…
TRT World
Wes J. Bryant, former senior targeting advisor and policy analyst at the Pentagon and branch chief of civilian harm assessments, analyses latest developments in US-Iran War…
Sky News
In this highlight of an interview with Sky News, Wes Bryant answers the question of whether he’s surprised at the conduct of the Trump administration in its war with Iran and speaks to the values that the U.S. military is supposed to represent…
Going Underground
A highlight of Wes J. Bryant's interview with Afshin Rattansi's Going Underground on the Iran War, where he details Pete Hegseth's shutdown of the department to protect civilians and the "reveling in death and destruction" as civilians are killed and injured in Iran and much more...
BBC
Wes J. Bryant joins @BBC Radio and @BBCWorldService to discuss the marked absence of accountability and transparency under Pete Hegseth's Department of "War," the dangerous culture shift proliferating at the highest levels of the U.S. military, and the shameful response to the strike on an Iranian girls’ school at the outset of the Iran War…
Times Now
US-Iran Truce: Iran was quick to halt Hormuz Passage after multiple Israeli strikes hit Beirut. Earlier, Trump agreed to Iran's 10-point plan. Will the ceasefire hold or collapse? Former Pentagon official Wes J. Bryant spoke exclusively with Times Now on Newshour Agenda…
TMJ News
Pentagon whistleblower Wes J. Bryant joins TMJ News for an insider look at the widening gap between official claims and battlefield realities, and what recent intelligence and military developments reveal about the trajectory of the war…
PBS NewsHour
For insight into what it takes to conduct a search and rescue operation for a downed combat air crew, Amna Nawaz spoke with retired Master Sergeant Wes Bryant. He spent his career in the Air Force Special Operations and participated in these kinds of missions…
Democracy Now
As the United States mobilizes thousands more troops for deployment to the Middle East, we speak with retired U.S. Air Force Master Sergeant Wes Bryant, who criticizes the "bloodthirst" of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran…
Sky News
Wes Bryant joins Mark Austin on Sky News to discuss the joint U.S.-Israel war against Iran, the increased justification of atrocities by the declared "leaders of the free world" — and what it all means.
CNN | The Amanpour Hour
In an extraordinary interview with Christiane Amanpour, Pentagon whistleblower Wes J. Bryant sounds the alarm about what he calls a lack of concern for civilian casualties by the US in Iran. He was part of a Pentagon unit tasked with mitigating civilian harm, but it was gutted last year in government cuts…
BBC | The Security Brief
Wes J. Bryant joins BBC’s The Security Brief to discuss how much of a role artificial intelligence is playing in finding and eliminating targets, how AI is changing how wars are waged, and how fast it's evolving…
Explore Media | Atlas
Wes J. Bryant helps breakdown the U.S. raid to capture Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and his wife in an unprecedented military operation…
AJ+
Wes J. Bryant joins Al Jazeera+ to discuss the U.S. strike on an Iranian elementary school and the reasons it was shameful, unacceptable, and wholly preventable…
Center for American Progress
Wes J. Bryant joins the Center for American Progress and Human Rights Watch for a panel on the tragedy of a U.S. strike on an Iranian elementary school and its implications for the U.S. military and the future of warfare…
NewsNation
Wes J. Bryant joins NewsNation to discuss the U.S. strike on a girls' school in Iran, the slashing of the Pentagon's civilian protection efforts under Hegseth, and broader implications…
MS NOW
Wes J. Bryant joins MS NOW The Weekend Primetime to discuss the U.S. strike on a girls' school in Iran, the slashing of the Pentagon's civilian protection efforts under Pete Hegseth, and the broader implications…
Channel 4 News
Wes J. Bryant joins UK Channel 4 News to discuss the U.S. strike on a girls' school in Iran, how it happened, and the consequences of the Pentagon’s slashing of civilian protection efforts under Hegseth…
NPR | On the Media
Wes J. Bryant joined NPR’s On the Media for an in-depth discussion on the Pentagon's slashing of its program to protect civilians in war, the retaliation he faced as a Pentagon whistleblower, and the dangerous consequences of the character and culture set by self-proclaimed Secretary of "War" Pete Hegseth…
TRT World
Wes J. Bryant joins TRT News to discuss the deployment of a Marine Amphibious Readiness Group to the Strait of Hormuz and what that could mean…
BBC
Wes J. Bryant joins BBC to discuss in the U.S. strike on a girls' school in Iran, how it happened, and the shameful response from the Trump administration…
CNN | THE SITUATION ROOM
Wes J. Bryant with Wolf Blitzer on The Situation Room discusses the tragic and shameful U.S. strike on a girls' school in Iran and what led to it—from the dissolution of Pentagon efforts to better protect civilians to a war-worshipping culture of bloodlust from the top down proliferated by Secretary of “War” Pete Hegseth…
ABC Radio National Breakfast
Wes J. Bryant joined ABC News Australia's Radio National Breakfast to discuss in depth the U.S. strike on a girls' school in Iran, how it likely happened, and the implications of the Pentagon's slashing of civilian harm mitigation efforts under Pete Hegseth…
NPR
Wes J. Bryant joins NPR 's Madeleine Brand to discuss the U.S. strike on a girls' school in Iran, how it likely happened, and the implications of the Pentagon's slashing of civilian harm mitigation efforts under Pete Hegseth…
TIMES OF LONDON
Wes J. Bryant joins Tims of London Radio to discuss in depth the U.S. strike on a girls' school in Iran, how it happened, the implications of the Pentagon slashing of civilian harm mitigation efforts under Pete Hegseth, and the shameful response from the Trump administration…
PBS NEWS HOUR
Wes J. Bryant joins PBS News Hour to discuss the likely U.S. strike against an elementary school in south Iran and the dangerous shift in use of lethal military force that’s unfolded so quickly under Pete Hegseth…
ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT
Wes J. Bryant sits down with ABC World News Tonight to discuss the strike against an elementary school in south Iran that reportedly killed upwards of 200 civilians—most of them young schoolgirls…
ASIA ONE
Wes J. Bryant speaks to AsiaOne on the blatant lies from the Trump administration to justify large scale military aggression against Iran…
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LIEBER INSTITUTE FOR LAW AND LAND WARFARE
Last December, weeks before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the New York Times ran an article that describes a highly secretive strike cell operating during the U.S. campaign in Syria and run by a small task force of U.S. special operators...