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Wesley Morgan

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Wesley Morgan

@wesleysmorgan

Writing about America’s post-9/11 wars and their aftermath. Author of THE HARDEST PLACE @randomhouse. DM for Signal.

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Wesley Morgan
@wesleysmorgan
Mar 22, 2021
Now that THE HARDEST PLACE is out, I'm going to do a photo thread—there was only room in the book's photo insert for 20ish, but people I interviewed shared hundreds more fantastic ones with me.
Wesley Morgan
@wesleysmorgan
Mar 4, 2021
Books books books—THE HARDEST PLACE is here! In bookstores Tuesday 3/9!
Wesley Morgan
@wesleysmorgan
Aug 17, 2021
Taliban searching my former interpreter’s house (he’s hiding out elsewhere and can see it via the app on his phone from his home security cameras)
Wesley Morgan
@wesleysmorgan
Oct 12, 2023
6,000 bombs into Gaza in 6 days. For comparison, during the air campaign against ISIS in 2014-19, the US-led coalition dropped 2,000-5,000 munitions per *month* across all of Iraq and Syria. US monthly bomb drops only exceeded 4,000 during the 2017 destruction of Raqqa.
Israeli Air Force
@IAFsite
Oct 12, 2023
Dozens of fighter jets and helicopters attacked a series of terrorist targets of the Hamas terrorist organization throughout the Gaza Strip. So far, the IAF has dropped about 6,000 bombs against Hamas targets.
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Wesley Morgan
@wesleysmorgan
Nov 24, 2023
Third report I’ve seen that the largely female 414th Intelligence Battalion—responsible for Gaza border surveillance—sent specific warnings about the coming attack up their chain of command, only to be ignored and have their base overrun (at least 20 414th KIA, plus hostages).
Gregg Carlstrom
@glcarlstrom
Nov 24, 2023
"A senior Israeli military intelligence officer dismissed a detailed warning predicting Hamas's raid of October 7, calling it an 'imaginary scenario'... soldiers also warned their analysis of several videos showed Hamas was rehearsing taking hostages." ft.com/content/277573…
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Wesley Morgan
@wesleysmorgan
Nov 16, 2018
“Some platoon members were so distraught by the chief’s actions, investigators said, that they tampered with his sniper rifle to make it less accurate, and fired warning shots to scare away civilians before the chief had a chance to shoot them”
Decorated Navy SEAL Is Accused of War Crimes in Iraq (Published 2018)
From nytimes.com
Wesley Morgan
@wesleysmorgan
Aug 31, 2021
On Sept. 11, 2001, then-Capt. Chris Donahue was working at the Pentagon as special assistant to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He led a Delta Force squadron in northern Afghanistan during the surge a decade ago, and was the top special operations commander there in 2019-20.
U.S. Central Command
@CENTCOM
Aug 31, 2021
The last American Soldier leaves AfghanistanMajor General Chris Donahue, commander of the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne Division, @18airbornecorps, boards a C-17 cargo plane at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Wesley Morgan
@wesleysmorgan
Nov 4, 2024
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Wesley Morgan
@wesleysmorgan
Jun 22, 2022
After VP Pence got the Navy to let Greitens re-join the Reserve in 2019, the @KansasCityStar FOIA'd internal Navy comms where the brass were struggling to figure out what to do with him, and the excerpts are pretty funny: amp.kansascity.com/article2446344…
Wesley Morgan
@wesleysmorgan
Aug 7, 2022
Great, the police department of a major American city is having Eddie Gallagher train its officers
Wesley Morgan
@wesleysmorgan
Aug 16, 2021
This is a funny meme, but the premise that the US-backed mujahidin parties became the Taliban has never been true and still isn’t. An ignorant myth that just won’t die. Many former mujahidin joined the Taliban or allied with it; many others fought the Taliban for decades.
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Wesley Morgan
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May 20, 2020
Autopsy of bald eagle confirms that loon stabbed it in the heart with its beak www1.maine.gov/wordpress/insi…
Wesley Morgan
@wesleysmorgan
Dec 26, 2018
Compare and contrast these POTUS-posing-with-SEALs-downrange shots
Wesley Morgan
@wesleysmorgan
Oct 12, 2018
Brandon Thomas is missing, last seen in LA area. Former members of his old unit (2-503 Infantry, 173rd Airborne) are worried & want help finding him. During 2-503’s 2007-8 deployment to the Pech valley he was wounded three times & received three valor awards.
Wesley Morgan
@wesleysmorgan
Nov 17, 2022
The CIA's in-house journal apparently reviewed "Sicario." They kind of liked it—it's "beautifully filmed and well acted"—but have some tactical quibbles about how that cross-border tunnel operation at the end was run cia.gov/resources/csi/…