Mark Bowden

1 month ago | hoerzu.at | Ken Nolan |Mark Bowden

BeschreibungSomalia 1993: Einsatzkräfte der US-Armee sollen im Kampf gegen einen Terroristenanführer und dessen Kämpfer eine Reihe gesuchter Männer aus der Hauptstadt Mogadischu entführen. Das militärisch sehr mangelhaft vorbereitete Spezialkommando geht komplett schief und endet damit, dass einige der Soldaten mitten in der feindlichen Stadt festsitzen. Während sich die Gruppe unter Verlusten den Weg nach draußen freizukämpfen versucht, läuft eine hektische Rettungsaktion an...

Dec 17, 2024 | theatlantic.com | Mark Bowden

Here, in the third decade of the 21st century, the most sought-after ammunition in the U.S. arsenal reaches the vital stage of its manufacture—the process tended by a young woman on a metal platform on the second story of an old factory in rural Iowa, leaning over a giant kettle where tan flakes of trinitrotoluene, better known as the explosive TNT, are stirred slowly into a brown slurry. She wears a baggy blue jumpsuit, safety glasses, and a hairnet.

Oct 25, 2024 | theatlantic.com | Mark Bowden

The old Marine Richard “Lefty” Leflar died two weeks ago at his home in West Conshohocken, just outside Philadelphia, mean as ever, at the end of an afternoon of watching football, smoking cigarettes, and eating waffles with ice cream; his body riddled with half-century-old shrapnel, his back killing him, his heart wittering; yelling into the phone at his son, Brian, who lived a few doors away, to “run down the fucking street and carry me up the fucking steps!”Brian came running.

Sep 23, 2024 | inquirer.com | Mark Bowden

When Matt Teague and I wrote The Steal in 2021, a book that examined how Donald Trump tried to overturn the 2020 election, it was clear that the effort involved three kinds of people. First was the “army” of true believers, who swallowed whole Trump’s claim that he had, in fact, won, despite the actual vote count.

Jul 20, 2024 | saturdayread.substack.com | Mark Bowden |Jason Cowley

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