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SEAL Team 6 member's suicide inspires new veterans' mental health effort
Bill Mulder had worked his entire life toward becoming a Navy SEAL, but the experience broke him. A new project hopes to help other covert operatives and special operators bypass the stigma surrounding mental health care and get the help they need.
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A clandestine Army operative concealed his mental health problems until it was too late. Is the military to blame?
Michael Froede, a member of a secret Army unit, exhibited behavior that seemed erratic to his supervisors and peers. But trained in the arts of deception, he hid the extent of his mental health problems for over a decade out of fear that he would lose his career. In 2019 he took his own life.
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'Conspiracy is hard': Inside the Trump administration's secret plan to kill Qassem Soleimani
For better or worse, the Soleimani killing was one of the most consequential foreign policy decisions of the Trump administration, with effects that will reverberate for years to come and likely shape the strategic environment President Biden now faces in the region.
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The CIA sent a team of 4 operators on a spy mission targeting China. None came back.
In 2008, CIA operative Stephen Stanek faced a decision: cancel the operation he was running or go forward with it — as a tropical storm barreled through the Philippines with a projection to veer north and miss his team's area of operation.