When Abu Zubaydah was shown a series of photos of al Qaeda members by Soufan, he identified one of them as the operational commander of 9/11, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
A good commander is benevolent and unconcerned with fame.
I retired in 2016 as a Lieutenant Commander and immediately went to the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.
