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Duffel Blog is the first and only online parody news organization focused on the U.S. military and veterans — helping advance critical thinking in national security through satire and smart humor.
Overview
Employees
11-50
Founded date
2014
Mentions in press and media 17
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| Jun 13, 2019 | 10 things about air power that the Air Force doesn't teach you | US Air Force B-1B bombers, F-35B stealth fighters, and South Korean F-15K fighters over the Korean Peninsula during joint drills, September 18, 2017. Associated Press Over the past half-century, the US military has relied on its dominance o... |
| Aug 31, 2017 | Part I: The Case for Continued U.S. Involvement in Afghanistan | The U.S. war in Afghanistan, which enters its 16th year as the longest war in American history, has no end in sight, and Americans increasingly question its value. As a presidential candidate, Donald J. Trump questioned the continued U.S. i... |
| Jan 24, 2014 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | The big news yesterday was the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board's rather hefty report on NSA surveillance. If you didn't catch Paul's post yesterday on whether the PCLOB overstepped its charge in deeming the 215 program illegal, ... |
| Dec 24, 2013 | Pitch Perfect Satire: NSA Intercepted Children's Letters To Santa | That Anonymous Coward points us to what may be the most pitch perfect satire of the NSA’s activities, in a write-up about how the NSA intercepted children’s letters to Santa, over at the Duffel Blog. The concept is obvious from the title, b... |
| Dec 2, 2013 | Today’s Headlines and Commentary | Let's start by acknowledging the seasonal: Stun-gun fights, knife fights, human-trampling, mass evacuations---as expected, the national security threat known as the period between Black Friday and Cyber Monday proves the tragicomic stuff of... |
| Nov 15, 2013 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | Would a cyber attack on the most vulnerable nodes of the U.S. power grid paralyze us, or would we be prepared? That's what 10,000 war gamers tried to assess in a simulation this week. Have a glimpse through a New York Times story, by Matthe... |
| Oct 1, 2013 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | The federal government is shut down, but Lawfare is still open. Here's the national security-related news in the shutdown story: SecDef Hagel is working hard with his lawyers to figure out how to limit the number of civilian DoD employees w... |
| Sep 4, 2013 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | The Senate Foreign Relations Committee came to a tentative, bipartisan agreement on the use of force in Syria, as Wells has noted. Here's an NPR piece about that and a Hill story too, as well as one about the schedule in Congress: the Senat... |
| Jul 22, 2013 | Today's Headlines and Commentary | Craig Whitlock had a significant piece in the Washington Post over the weekend detailing the expanded use of surveillance drones outside of declared combat zones. Check it out, and take a peek at the Post's map of "hot spots" wher... |
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FAQ about Duffel Blog
When was Duffel Blog founded?
Duffel Blog was founded in 2014.
What has the press written about Duffel Blog?
Parsers VC has collected 17 articles mentioning Duffel Blog, among them “10 things about air power that the Air Force doesn't teach you” (Jun 13, 2019) and “Part I: The Case for Continued U.S. Involvement in Afghanistan” (Aug 31, 2017).
Is Duffel Blog still active?
Yes, Duffel Blog is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jan 21, 2020.