Special Forces/Whistlestop

Special Forces: Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has stated that a smaller, more mobile army is the wave of the future. Other experts say a diffusion of the special forces will weaken that particular sector of the armed forces. Host Rusty Jacobs examines the history and the future of the special forces with: John Duvall, director of the Airborne and Special Operations Museum in Fayetteville, North Carolina; Craig Marks: retired special forces officer; Linda Robinson, author of “Masters of Chaos: The Secret History of Special Forces” (PublicAffairs/2004); and Andrew Bacevich, retired army colonel and professor of international relations at Boston University. (32:00)

Whistlestop at Company Shops Station: The story of how the North Carolina Railroad was built and what it has meant tt the state is being celebrated in a new exhibit called Whistlestop at Company Shops in Burlington. Host Rusty Jacobs talks with the exhibit’s designer and fabricator, Peter Ruocchio, and Walter Turner, historian at the North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer. (12:00)

Remembering Larry Brown: Tom Rankin, the Director of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, and a good friend of Mississippi writer Larry Brown, offers an honest and heart-felt essay about Brown’s sudden passing earlier this month. (5:00)

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