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…

A new book chronicles the fight against ISIS…

A new bipartisan report to Congress warns ISIS is back…

In the eighth episode of Semi-Indestructible, USAF Special Operations Master Sergeant (Ret) Wes J. Bryant joins the show to discuss his extensive military training, how martial arts turned his life around, and rebuilding yourself after a tragedy…

When war breaks out, we tend to focus on whether the war is justified. Is it right to fight? Under international law, it's not that hard to justify going to war. But if we really want to understand why wars happen, asking only if the war is justified can muddy the water…

Wes J. Bryant retired from the U.S. Air Force in 2018 at the rank of Master Sergeant after twenty years of active duty service. Embedded with Special Forces teams under a Navy SEAL task force, Wes was the tactical lead for a contingent of special operations JTACs to first set foot in Iraq to stop ISIS…

Wes served in the Air Force as a Joint Terminal Attack Controller (JTAC) and helped establish the strike cell model that took down ISIS in Syria and Iraq…

Wes Bryant is a U.S. Air Force Master Sergeant (retired) who served eight combat deployments in the post 9/11 era as a Special Operations Forces Tactical Air Control Party (TACP) and Joint Tactical Air Controller (JTAC)…

MSgt (Ret) Wes Bryant, a former JTAC and TACP, talks about the importance of airstrikes in the fight against ISIS…

Chelsea and Steve of the Global SOF Foundations podcast SOFspot sit down (virtually) with Wes Bryant.

Wes Bryant talks with Left of Greg hosts Greg and Brian about the book Hunting The Caliphate. He also shares his experience transitioning from active duty to civilian life.

Colonel Daniel Roper, U.S. Army retired, host of AUSA’s Thought Leaders, interviews Wes Bryant and Dana Pittard on Hunting the Caliphate.

Dana Pittard and Wes Bryant have an in-depth discussion with host Brandon Vogt of Albuquerque’s KKOB radio on the formation of ISIS and America’s military campaign against them, as told in their book Hunting the Caliphate.

Wes Bryant and Dana Pittard discuss Hunting the Caliphate with retired Master Sergeant Eric Marts.

Breaking news of the raid in which terrorist and leader of Isis Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi suicides to avoid capture. Special guest Wes Bryant, author of the new book "Hunting the Caliphate" gives a unique insight.

Wes Bryant and Dana Pittard have a lively conversation on Hunting the Caliphate and the war on ISIS, and touch on the domestic socio-political climate, with the hosts of Crosspolitic.

Dale Throneberry discusses the latest news of a military withdrawal from Syria with Dana Pittard and Wes Bryant, co-authors of Hunting the Caliphate.

Dana Pittard and Wes Bryant enjoy a lively and fun interview with the hosts of the Minnesota based radio show and podcast the Tom Barnyard Show.

Wes Bryant in a two-part interview on the “Around the Triangle” radio series with host Kyle Wilson of iHeart radio.

Dana Pittard and Wes Bryant have a contentious while civil interview with renowned 9/11 and War on Terror conspiracy theorist and Holocaust denier Kevin Barrett on his radio show Truth Jihad.

A gritty, detailed interview with co-authors Dana Pittard and Wes Bryant as they talk ISIS and Hunting the Caliphate with host Ben Buehler-Garcia of American Warrior Radio.

A captivating interview with Dana Pittard and Wes Bryant as they deep-dive into Hunting the Caliphate with brilliant host Julie Rose on BYU radio’s Top of Mind.

Listen to the first-ever live interview with Dana Pittard and Wes Bryant as they discuss Hunting the Caliphate with host Dale Throneberry of Veterans Radio.

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. Israel was wholly justified in responding to Hamas’s inhuman attack on Oct. 7, 2023, in which the terror group tortured and gunned down hundreds of people and entire families. But its aggressive campaign across the Gaza Strip…

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…. I strongly support the imperative for our ally Israel to defeat Hamas. But as an expert in targeting, collateral damage analysis, and strike coordination and control, I am compelled to share my perspective of Israel’s strike campaign in the Gaza Strip…

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…

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…

They started the US war against ISIS. Now they have an important message for Trump on abandoning the Kurds…

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…

Wes Bryant contributes to a Fox News analysis of humanitarian air drops into the Gaza Strip.

Wes Bryant and Dana Pittard were key contributor’s to air historian Benjamin Lambeth’s official history of the air war against ISIS.

Wes Bryant and Dana Pittard’s Hunting the Caliphate is utilized as a cited resource in this RAND study on airpower in the war on ISIS.

Hunting the Caliphate is cited in Duke Law’s Center for Law, Ethics, and National Security in an article dispelling myths about civilian casualties from US airstrikes.

Wes Bryant is interviewed by POLITICO’s Wes Morgan on the resurgence of ISIS in Syria.

Wes Bryant talked with Business Insider’s Ellen Loanes about President Trump’s decision to pull troops out of Syria.

Wes Bryant in a full interview with reporter Randall Rigsby of the Chatham News + Record on the release of Hunting the Caliphate.