Behind the rise in global defense spending, Part 3: The wider world
Release Date: 05/20/2024
The Second Battle of Fallujah, 20 years later
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A decorated Marine veteran and a video game maker revisit one of the bloodiest battles in U.S. military history. Guests: , author and contributing writer at The Atlantic; Peter Tamte, founder and CEO of ; And Defense One science and tech editor Patrick Tucker. Sources and additional reading: "," by Elliot Ackerman, writing for Esquire on March 23, 2017; The video game ""; "," a satirical video produced in January 2011 by The Onion; "," published August 2019 in the European Journal of Psychotraumatology; "," published April 2020 in the Journal of Psychiatry & Neuroscience;...
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Mark Montgomery’s insights from Ukraine
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A retired U.S. admiral shares what he learned from a recent trip to the wartorn country. Guest: , a retired U.S. Navy rear admiral, is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington and senior director of FDD's Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation.
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AUSA conference, in review
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Defense One staff summarize the leading developments from this year's Association of the U.S. Army conference in Washington. Guest: Sam Skove, staff reporter; Patrick Tucker, science and tech editor. Find Defense One's complete AUSA coverage .
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The 2024 Air, Space & Cyber conference
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Audrey Decker explains some of the top developments out of this year's AFA conference outside Washington. Guest: Audrey Decker, Defense One’s air warfare reporter. Extra reading:
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Europe in a tight spot
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Patrick Tucker unpacks findings from his recent trip to Prague for the 2024 Global Security Conference. Related reading: "," by Patrick Tucker, reporting August 30 from Prague; "," by Tucker again, reporting from Washington on September 11; And "," a report published this week by Mario Draghi, former president of the European Central Bank.
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A trip to Louisiana with the Army’s new recon unit
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The Army just put a new unit loaded with cutting-edge tech to the test at Fort Johnson. Sam Skove explains what he saw during a recent week long demonstration. You can read more from Sam's coverage of this Army exercise .
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The 2024 Farnborough airshow
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We revisit some of the bigger takeaways from this year’s Farnborough International Airshow. Guest: , vice president of market insights at Forecast International, a research and consulting firm owned by Defense One's parent company. You can see all of our Farnborough Airshow coverage, .
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Tech Summit: DARPA’s Stefanie Tompkins
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We conclude our 2024 Tech Summit coverage with an interview featuring DARPA Director Stefanie Tompkins. Guest: , Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. You can see all of our interviews from the 2024 Tech Summit at Defense One's YouTube page, .
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Tech Summit: The state of hypersonics
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Our 2024 Tech Summit coverage continues with a discussion about the future of hypersonic missile research and development. Guest: , Principal Director of Directed Energy at the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Critical Technologies; And , Senior Advisor to the Principal Director for Hypersonics for Strike Systems Strategy and Policy Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. You can see all of our interviews from the 2024 Tech Summit at Defense One's YouTube page, .
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Tech Summit: The Pentagon’s Maynard Holiday
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We’re sharing some of our notable exchanges from the 2024 Defense One Technology Summit, beginning with the Pentagon's Maynard Holliday. Guest: , Performing the Duties of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Critical Technologies at the Defense Department. You can see all of our interviews from the 2024 Tech Summit at Defense One's YouTube page, .
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- Chris Blattman, economist, political scientist, and Ramalee E. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies at the University of Chicago.
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- “Global military spending surges amid war, rising tensions and insecurity,” published April 2024 by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute;
- “Back in Stock? The State of Russia's Defense Industry after Two Years of the War,” by Maria Snegovaya, Max Bergmann, Tina Dolbaia, Nick Fenton, and Samuel Bendett, published April 2024 by the Center for Strategic and International Studies;
- “Keeping Up with the Pacing Threat: Unveiling the True Size of Beijing’s Military Spending,” by Mackenzie Eaglen, published April 2024 by the American Enterprise Institute;
- “Indo-Pacific Missile Arsenals: Avoiding Spirals and Mitigating Escalation Risks,” by Ankit Panda, published October 2023 by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace;
- “Missile Proliferation and Control in the Asia-Pacific Region,” from Jeffrey Lewis and Kolja Brockmann, published April 2024 by the International Institute for Strategic Studies;
- And “Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace,” from Chris Blattman, published April 2022 by Penguin Random House.