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Donnie Edwards: NFL Star and Philanthropist Oct 27, 2021

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Today's guest on Danger Close is Donnie Edwards.

Donnie Edwards spent 13 years as a linebacker in the NFL and is one of only eight players in the history of the league to have more than 20 interceptions and 20 sacks during his career. Inspired by stories from his grandfather, a Pearl Harbor survivor, and a life-changing conversation with a WWII veteran, Donnie founded the Best Defense Foundation in 2018 with the mission of “Taking Care of the Ones Who Took Care of Us.” The foundation honors and celebrates our veterans from past conflicts including WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. Through the foundation’s Battlefield Return program, more than 100 WWII veterans have been able to remember their fallen comrades and gain closure returning to the battlefields on which they fought: Normandy, the Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Pearl Harbor, Iwo Jima, Guam, Saipan and Tinian.

The Best Defense Foundation is also focused on educating future generations about the heroism and sacrifices of those who served through the preservation of their first-hand accounts, recording interviews with over 200 WWII combat veterans.

You can follow Donnie on Instagram @donnie_edwards and you can learn more about his work @bestdefensefoundation.

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James Yeager: Tactical Response Oct 22, 2021

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James Yeager is a former police officer, private security contractor, and founder and CEO of the firearm and tactical training company Tactical Response. He has been a firearms trainer since 1994 and founded Tactical Response in 1996 on the principle of “Student First – Instructor Second.”

His Law Enforcement experience includes serving as an undercover drug enforcement officer, SWAT team leader, K-9 handler, and as Chief of the Big Sandy Police Department in Tennessee. In 2004 and 2005, he worked as a private security contractor in Iraq and was responsible for the protection of eight Iraqi Election Commissioners. On April 20, 2005, his PSD was caught in an ambush on Route Irish between the Green Zone and Baghdad International Airport. Three members of his team were killed. James discusses it in detail in this conversation.

How much does a million dollars in $100 bills weigh and how does James Yeager know?

What do you do if you lock your keys in an armored vehicle?

Find out on the podcast.

James is also the founder of libertv.com and its popular YouTube channel. You can follow him on Instagram @mfceoyeager.

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Mark ‘Billy’ Billingham: Adapt, Survive and Win Oct 20, 2021

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Today’s guest on Danger Close is former SAS operator Mark “Billy” Billingham.

From 1983 to 1991 Billy served in the UK’s Parachute Regiment before joining SAS where he was a Mountain Troop specialist conducting operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, South America and Africa. He is a certified SF and Counter Terrorist Sniper Instructor, an Advanced Evasive Driving Instructor, a Combat Survival/RTI Instructor, a Tracking/Jungle Warfare/Navigation Instructor, a Demolition/Sabotage Instructor, a Ski Mountaineering/Rock Climbing/Abseiling/Ice climbing Instructor, a Counter Terrorist Instructor. He is also a philanthropist and highly sought-after speaker.

He is the author of The Hard Way: Adapt, Survive and Win and the new book Call to Kill: The Enemy Is Everywhere. Following his career in the military, Billy served as a personal bodyguard for high-profile clients including Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Sir Michael Caine, Jude Law, Hulk Hogan, Kate Moss, Russell Crowe and Tom Cruise. Since 2015, Billy has been one of the lead instructors on the television series SAS: Who Dares Wins.

You can learn more about Billy at markbillybillingham.com or follow him on social @billingham22b.

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The October 2021 Reading List and Negative Reviews Oct 15, 2021

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Note: Today’s podcast has been adapted from Jack’s October Video Update. Be sure to subscribe to Jack’s YouTube channel to never miss new videos and content. In this edition of the Danger Close podcast, Jack reads—and responds to—a handful of negative Terminal List series reviews. It’s an honest, funny look at criticism, and how to respond to it.

Jack also breaks down this month’s reading list selections - seven books Jack recommends every American read by the end of the year.

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1984 by George Orwell Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell

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Douglas London: Spying and the Lost Art of American Intelligence Oct 13, 2021

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Douglas London is a retired senior CIA operations officer and the author of the new book The Recruiter: Spying and the Lost Art of American Intelligence.

Doug served as a U.S. Marine before joining the Central Intelligence Agency in 1984 where he worked for 34 years - 17 years on either side of 9/11. His job was the clandestine collection of HUMINT - intelligence that comes from people who provide secrets valuable to the United States. By virtue of recruiting spies for an equal number of years on either side of 11 September 2001, Doug offers a unique perspective on the Agency pre and post that seminal date in history.

He served in the Middle East, South and Central Asia, and Africa including three assignments as a chief of station, the president’s senior advisor at post, and chief of base in a conflict zone. Assignments at CIA Headquarters included executive positions at the Agency’s Counterterrorism Center, Information Operations Center, and Near East and South Asia Division. He is the recipient of the CIA’s Career Intelligence Medal.

Today, Doug is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Georgetown University’s Center for Security Studies, and is a non-resident fellow at the Middle East Institute. On this episode of Danger Close, Doug discusses the state of modern intelligence, failures of the intelligence community, a lack of accountability prevalent in the post-9/11 CIA, and a lot more.

You can follow him on Twitter @douglaslondon5 and you can follow Jack on social platforms @jackcarrusa.

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The Thunder Ranch Roundtable with Clint Smith and Steven Pressfield Oct 08, 2021

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Today’s special roundtable discussion episode of Danger Close was recorded at Thunder Ranch in May of 2020 with Jack in conversation with best-selling author of Gates of Fire, Steven Pressfield, and Thunder Ranch founder Clint Smith.

They examine what sets America apart from our adversaries, the importance of preparedness, modern virtues, and a lot more.

About Clint Smith: Clint is the President and Director of Thunder Ranch, a 900-acre ranch in Southern Oregon that he operates with his wife Heidi. It is one of the world’s most highly acclaimed firearm training facilities. Clint is a Marine Corps veteran who served two tours in Vietnam. After being shot in combat, Clint returned and began a decade in law enforcement before becoming the operations officer at API, later Gunsite, under LtCol Jeff Cooper. He then started his own training company and did a stint with the H&K training division before founding the legendary Thunder Ranch. He’s also the author of the books Urban Rifle: 45 Years of Teaching and Training and Urban Rifle 2: Close Combat Conflict Resolution.

About Steven Pressfield: Steven Pressfield is a bestselling author, Hollywood screenwriter and Marine Corps veteran. He’s penned several bestselling novels including The Legend of Bagger Vance, Gates of Fire, Tides of War, The Virtues of War, The Afghan Campaign, and his latest, A Man at Arms, about the solitary mercenary Telamon of Arcadia.

Steven has also written numerous non-fiction books including The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles, The Lion's Gate: On the Front Lines of the Six Day War, The Artist's Journey: The Wake of the Hero's Journey and the Lifelong Pursuit of Meaning, and others.

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Craig Whitlock: The Afghanistan Papers Oct 06, 2021

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Today's guest on the Danger Close podcast is Craig Whitlock. Craig Whitlock is a three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist who has specialized in reporting on national security issues for The Washington Post since 1998. Since 2001, he has covered the Global War on Terrorism as a foreign correspondent, Pentagon reporter, and national security specialist.

His new book, The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War, asks and answers the question every American is asking in the wake of the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan: after 20 years of war, thousands of lives lost with even more suffering the physical and emotional trauma of the battlefield, and trillions of dollars spent - what went wrong in Afghanistan? To gain access to what are now known as The Afghanistan Papers, The Washington Post had to sue the federal government twice under the Freedom of Information Act to force them to release unclassified interviews with 428 generals, diplomats, aid workers and Afghan officials. These documents along with 59,000 pages of Donald Rumsfeld’s memos obtained through another Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by the National Security Archive at George Washington University and 600 unclassified interviews with veterans of the war conducted by the Army’s Combat Studies Institute and another series of interviews with Bush White House officials from the Miller Center at UVA form the foundation of research for Craig’s book. If you suspected that elected and appointed officials, diplomats, government bureaucrats and senior level military leaders have been lying to congress, the tactical level troops, reporters and the American people about the war in Afghanistan for the past 20 years, this book provides you the truth - in their own words.

You can follow Craig on Twitter @CraigMWhitlock.

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Don Bentley: Operation Red Wings Oct 01, 2021

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Today's guest on Danger Close is Don Bentley. Don Bentley is a former U.S. Army Apache helicopter pilot who flew QRF in support of Operation Red Wings in Afghanistan. Launching with only a frequency, call sign and last known location of the four man SEAL reconnaissance element, Don and the QRF flew into harm’s way. One helicopter and the 16 warriors aboard would not make it home.

This is a powerful conversation with someone who has spent years dealing with the emotional aftermath of that mission and has learned to channel those feelings into his writing. Following his time in the Army, Don worked for General Electric before once again stepping up to serve as an FBI Special Agent focused on foreign intelligence cases and as an FBI SWAT Team member.

Today, Don is the New York Times bestselling author of the Matt Drake series. The next book in the series, Hostile Intent, releases on May 3, 2022. He is also continuing the legacy of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan Jr. series. Target Acquired is on shelves now.

You can learn more about Don at donbentleybooks.com and follow him on Twitter @bentleydonb

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Chris Wallace: Countdown Bin Laden Sep 29, 2021

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Chris Wallace is the anchor of Fox News Sunday where each week he interviews the most prominent newsmakers of the day.

For over five decades, Chris has had a front seat to history as a journalist covering almost every significant political event of our time, including as chief White House correspondent for NBC News from 1982 to 1989. He has interviewed seven American Presidents, numerous foreign heads of state, and won every major broadcast news award, including three Emmy Awards, the duPont-Columbia Silver Baton, and the Peabody Award. He moderated the 2016 Republican Party Presidential Debate and general election presidential debates in 2016 between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, and in 2020 between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. His interviews with everyone from Mother Teresa to Vladimir Putin chronicle the people and events of the past half-century.

He is the author of First Lady: A Portrait of Nancy Reagan, Character: Profiles in Presidential Courage, Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days that Changed the World, and his latest, Countdown Bin Laden: The Untold Story of the 247-Day Hunt to Bring the Mastermind of 9/11 to Justice.

On today’s Danger Close, Jack and Chris Wallace discuss his career, journalism, the hunt for Osama bin Laden, and more.

Follow Fox News Sunday on Twitter @FoxNewsSunday and check out the Countdown Series at https://www.countdownbook.com

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Brad Taylor: One Rough Man Sep 24, 2021

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Today's guest on this bonus episode of the Danger Close Podcast is Brad Taylor.

Brad Taylor served more than two decades in the U.S. Army before retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel. He held multiple positions, including Squadron Commander, in the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment – Delta, more commonly referred to as Delta Force. For more on this highly classified unit, see Wikipedia. Brad deployed to Afghanistan in the early days of the war and lead special operations forces in Iraq and other hot spots around the globe.

Today, Brad Taylor is a bestselling author who has written fifteen thrillers, including his 2011 breakout debut One Rough Man, and the latest in his Pike Logan series, American Traitor. His sixteenth book in the series, End of Days, hits shelves in January and is now available for pre-order.

You can follow him on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram @bradtaylorbooks.

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