Tag Archives: ISIS

Hard Lessons from America’s Longest War

Command Center at the National Counter-Terrorism Center (NCTC) Breaking Defense By James Kitfield, December 2017 American troops have been fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan for so long that the public doesn’t even celebrate their victories…

Military Reporters & Editors Assoc Recognizes James Kitfield with Online Journalism Award

  Military Reporters & Editors Association Journalism Awards Online: James Kitfield, POLITICO Magazine, Yahoo News, Breaking Defense. The stories on American Jihad, narco-terrorism, Gen. Martin Dempsey and Mike Flynn represent a range of in-depth reporting…

Author James Kitfield Discusses America’s “Twilight War” on Terrorism on C-SPAN

C-SPAN: DECEMBER 22, 2016 James Kitfield on Twilight Warriors James Kitfield talked about his book Twilight Warriors, in which he explains how the U.S. national security apparatus has adapted to fight terrorism since the terrorist…

In Exclusive Last Interview, Departing Military Intelligence Chief Warns of Growing Terrorist Threat

By JAMES KITFIELD, August 07, 2014 In this exclusive exit interview with Breaking Defense contributor James Kitfield, the outgoing chief of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, talks about metastasizing Islamic terrorism, his…