Brendan McNally is a journalist and writer specializing in defense and aerospace.
Brendan began his career in Washington D.C. during the 1980s, writing for various defense
industry newsletters, including Inside the Navy, Inside the Army, and Navy News and
Undersea Technology.
Following the end of the Cold War, Brendan moved to Prague where he covered the Eastern
European arms trade, NATO enlargement, defense modernization and regional security issues
for Defense News and The Prague Post.
He was part of a New York Times investigative team examining the Pentagon’s cover up of
Chemical Weapons detections during the opening hours of the 1991 Gulf War.
Following that, Brendan returned to Dallas and for the next ten years focused on writing
fiction and local feature stories for D Magazine.
Brendan is the author of two novels: Germania, about the bizarre goings-on during the three
week “Flensburg Reich” of Hitler’s unlucky successor Grand Admiral Doenitz; and Friend
of the Devil, a 1930s Texas Gothic featuring Bonnie & Clyde, Captain Frank Hamer of the
Texas Rangers, a reefer-addled atheist blues singer, goat-gland doctor JR Brinkley, the Devil
and someone who might or might not be God.
Brendan McNally is married, with a five-year old daughter and currently divides his time
between Dallas, Texas and the Czech Republic.
To see all of Brendan’s magazine articles, visit his website at:
www.brendanmcnallyauthor.com
Visit Brendan’s blogsite at: www.brendanmcnallynazisanddinosaurs.blogspot.com
By the beginning of 1945, the German occupation of the British Channel Islands was well into its fifth year. The Allied liberation of France, that previous summer, had left them …
Sometime in 1943, not long after construction of the Pentagon had been completed and the great building first opened its doors for business, reports of a ghost began circulating among …
It is the tradition in the U.S. Army to name its tanks after great generals. Over the years there has been the Stuart, the Grant and Lee, the Sherman, the …
When the U.S. Navy disbanded the last of its blimp fleet in 1962, it marked the end of the first era of military airships. It had lasted roughly half a …
To anyone at all passionate about airships, New Jersey’s Lakehurst Naval Air Station is Jerusalem. Birthplace and home to the Navy’s lighter-that-air fleet from 1921 to 1962, Lakehurst is where …
It’s hard not to get a sickening feeling, staring at photographs of all the gallant young soldiers, resplendent in their uniforms, marching so proudly off to fight what would become …
When the Marine Corps’ Systems Command in Quantico announced in late July it was awarding a five-year, $22.5 million contract to Colt for roughly 12,000 new M45A1 Close Quarter Battle …
Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution should never have caught the U.S. by surprise. But because Iran had been a key client state, the American government turned a blind eye to not …
Ask any student of military history about the effects of the April 1942 Doolittle Raid on Tokyo, and the answer will inevitably be that, while the physical damage it inflicted …
For the logistician, more than anyone, the ending of the Cold War brought a wholly unforeseen benefit. When the former Soviet military dismantled itself in the early 1990s, it sold …
