Archive - Heretics & Heroes of First Breakfast

Richard Bissell: The Overhead Economist

Lt Col Matt Sanchez, USAF - Assessments Action Officer, Joint Staff

Apr 2 •

and

March 2025

Bud Wheelon, Spy Satellites for the CIA

Wheelon fought McNamara and the NRO to give CIA a piece of the overhead reconnaissance mission

Mar 5 •

February 2025

Admiral Jack Fisher, the Royal Navy's Disruptor-in-Chief

By Arthur Herman

Feb 26

January 2025

Orde Wingate, The Pious Heretic

By Talia Dror and Jordan Hirsch

Jan 29

Dutch Kindelberger, Mastermind of the Mustang

By John Fredrickson & Brian Fredrickson

Jan 22 •

Brian Fredrickson

Joshua Humphreys, Frigate Forger

Hugh Zabriskie is a Product Manager, Defense & Aerospace, at Applied Intuition.

Jan 15 •

Which Heretics and Heroes Should We Profile Next?

Dear Readers — Happy New Year!

Jan 2 •

,

Madeline Zimmerman

, and

December 2024

General Leslie Groves, Bringer of the Bomb

When the atomic bomb dubbed “Little Boy” detonated above Hiroshima with the force of 15,000 tons of TNT on August 6, 1945, it changed warfare like no…

Dec 18, 2024 •

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Madeline Zimmerman

, and

November 2024

October 2024

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