A new installment of “Lessons Learned” is now out. This week I discuss the Bay of Pigs invasion, which began on April 17, 1961. In the video, I look at the mistakes made before and during the invasion ...

I went back into Cuba in February 1961, two months before the Bay of Pigs invasion. I was only 20 years old, but I had trained with U.S. agents for more than a year in communications and intelligence.

Human history is full of choices that could have led to global catastrophe. 1. The Cuban Missile Crisis: Kennedy’s Restraint2. Stanislav Petrov’s Decision to Trust His Instincts3. Chamberlain’s ...