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Force for Hire

Mar 16, 2021

Former auto industry mogul Carlos Ghosn was smuggled out of Japan in true Hollywood heist movie fashion while awaiting trial for corporate fraud. Now Special Forces Veteran Mike Taylor and his son Peter have been extradited to Japan in connection with Ghosn's evasion of Japanese authorities.

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Jan 2, 2020

Stay tuned for Military Matters, the new podcast from Stars and Stripes. Listen as U.S. Air Force veteran and Force for Hire host Desmon Farris and U.S. Army warrant officer Rod Rodriguez examine the topics that matter to service members, veterans, and the people and communities that support them. Subscribe now to...


Oct 9, 2019

In this final episode of Force for Hire, we examine some key issues about the private military contracting world that we uncovered.

The cost effectiveness of contracting kept coming up as one of the major questions during the season, and experts had widely differing answers.

We found that the broad use of...


Oct 2, 2019

In this penultimate episode of Force for Hire, we welcome on air Neryl Joyce, an Australian servicemember who turned to contracting when she wasn’t allowed to deploy with her fellow soldiers. 

She soon found out that what kept her from deploying with the Australian military was one of her greatest assets in the...


Sep 18, 2019

Thanks to high-profile cybersecurity operations — the recent U.S. cyberattack against Iran and Russia’s 2016 attack on Ukraine’s power grid, for example — the public is much more aware of the digital threats that the U.S. faces.

While the public lags behind in understanding these threats, the U.S. has for years...