I’m speaking on Friday at the US Army Command and General Staff College. I’ll be on a media panel with some pretty heady company — McClatchy’s ace Nancy Youssef, Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Atkinson, and AP deputy Washington bureau chief Steve Komarow. Drop me a note (or c’mon by) if you’re at Ft. Leavenworth, and want to meet up.
Noah Shachtman is a contributing editor at WIRED. He's the former editor-in-chief of Rolling Stone and The Daily Beast. ... Read More
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