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…
THE WASHINGTON REPORT
Wes J. Bryant joins Rana Abtar on The Washington Report on Bloomberg’s Asharq الشرق News to talk about Gaza, the ceasefire, and recent efforts toward peace…
Wes J. Bryant with Reuters on the comprehensive investigation into an August 25 strike on Nasser hospital in Gaza that killed 22 civilians including journalists, doctors, nurses, and other civil defense responders…
Wes J. Bryant in a live interview on @BBCNews to discuss the disturbing investigation into the shooting of Palestinian children by Israeli soldiers in Gaza….
Wes J. Bryant joins @BBC Newsday to discuss the significant BBC investigation into child shootings by the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza….
In a conversation with India Today's Rajdeep Sardesai, ex-Pentagon official and security expert Wes J Bryant discusses the recent US strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities…
Wes J. Bryant joins Voice of America's Indonesian broadcast to discuss the near unbridled supply of U.S. munitions to Israel even as the Israeli military continues to massacre Palestinian civilians en masse...
Wes J. Bryant joins UK's Channel 4 News to discuss the continued Palestinian civilian deaths as a direct result of U.S.-provided munitions to Israel in the war in Gaza...
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Wes J. Bryant in a press release in Washington, D.C. with fellow members of the Independent Task Force on the Application of National Security Memorandum-20 to Israel discussing their analysis of U.S. security assistance, human rights, international law, and military best practices and Israel’s violations of international law and human rights in Gaza.
Wes J. Bryant joints CNN’s Jim Sciutto to discuss Iran’s retaliatory barrage of missile strikes against Israel, and U.S. and Israeli joint actions…
Wes J. Bryant speaks with CNN’s Michael Holmes on Israel's recent strike on a World Central Kitchen humanitarian aid convoy. He discusses how a pervading culture of negligence and indifference toward civilian harm increases the probability of these kinds of tragedies and the strategic and moral implications of the overall IDF strike campaign in Gaza…
The Israeli military dismissed two officers and reprimanded three more senior officers it said were responsible for the killing of seven World Central Kitchen aid workers earlier this week. Nick Schifrin speaks with Wes Bryant as Monday's attack puts even greater scrutiny on Israel’s tactics in Gaza…
Chef José Andrés says his World Central Kitchen charity's team in the Gaza Strip appears to have been deliberately targeted by the Israeli military with deadly airstrikes earlier this week. The IDF and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have called the airstrikes the kind of mistake that happens in war. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Holly Williams has commentary from Wes Bryant on the strike…
Following Israel's deadly strike on aid workers in Gaza and the international outrage it caused, Nick Schifrin has views from Wes Bryant, a retired U.S. Air Force joint terminal attack controller who called in air strikes and led strike planning cells, and retired Israeli Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus who commanded IDF forces in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip…
Wes J. Bryant speaks with Scripps News Morning Rush on the drone strike against U.S. troops in Jordan, the threat of Iran-backed militias across the region, and his recommended response by the Biden administration…
As the Taliban controls Afghanistan, following the withdrawal of western troops, what threat do other militant groups Al-Qaeda and ISIS-K pose in the country? Wes Bryant gives his perspective…
Wes J. Bryant joins Laverne McGee of BNC News to discuss the coordinated and deadly suicide attack and ambush of U.S. service members and Afghan civilians at the hands of ISIS-K at Afghanistan's Kabul Airport…
Wes J. Bryant talks with BNC News' Brittany Jones on President Biden's evacuation of Americans and Afghan allies from Kabul in the wake of the fall of Afghanistan…
Wes J. Bryant joins Shannon Lanier on The World Tonight to answer this question…
Wes J. Bryant on WRAL News, Raleigh to talk his new book, Hunting the Caliphate, chronicling the fight against ISIS…
A new bipartisan report to Congress warns ISIS is back. Wes J. Bryant and Dana Pittard sit down with Soledad O’Brien to talk their book Hunting the Caliphate, which chronicles the war on ISIS from their first-hand accounts…
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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...