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Mark Stout
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Intelligence historian, former intelligence officer. Also live on the borderlands of military history. Former Historian at the International Spy Museum. University educator. I wish I were in Seattle. The cat is Boadicea.
Thank you! Makes me grit my teeth every time he says that.
November 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
As long as you’re not facing the windows. Or really in the same room as the windows.
November 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Does it in fact force Johnson to do anything? That’s not clear to me but I’m no Congress maven.
November 10, 2025 at 3:14 AM
The first two are the editions that I read first. Don't know where they are. I think I loved them to death. The ROTK that I read back then had a different, much less appealing, cover.
November 9, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Yeah, I have to assume those hardbacks from academic publishers at such prices are largely aimed at the library market.
November 8, 2025 at 9:46 PM
It gets into the 60’s, if I recall correctly. Been a while since I looked at the text. Will be browsing it tonight, renewing my acquaintance.
November 8, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I love Sherman Kent's description in the book of OSS R&A chief and later CIA officer Walter Langer. "When he got into a subject matter, God help it; he ripped its clothes off irrespective of difficulty."
November 8, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I saw a discussion on LinkedIn saying that a bunch of the footnotes turned out not to refer to real works. I have not looked into this myself.
November 8, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Monumentally bad idea. Bad for actual counterintelligence and bad for American democracy and liberties.
November 8, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I know an associate dean that the author of that article should meet.
November 8, 2025 at 3:08 AM