NEW ODD LOTS:
@tracyalloway and I talked to Daleep Singh, Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economics at The White House, about how the administration deploys economic tools to achieve national security aims. https://t.co/bgGDyGwage
Along with quintessential "that guy who was in that thing" actors Joaquim de Almeida and Henry Czerny; the latter in compliance with what seems like a standing contract with Hollywood to play mid-level CIA bureaucrats
30 years ago today: ‘Clear and Present Danger’ hits theaters — "It’s Ford’s rock-solid presence and flinty honor as quintessential American Jack Ryan that will generate blockbuster waves"
https://t.co/eGzaZsT42t
real talk though: more than any other set of fictional works, the Tom Clancy novels/film adaptations play a significant role in my finding a national security career desirable