Jon Wolfsthal and “A House of Dynamite”
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A veteran of the National Security Council shares what the movie got right and wrong on U.S. missile defense and nuclear command and control. Guest: , Director of Global Risk at the Federation of American Scientists.
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Europe’s “drone wall”
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Patrick Tucker explains what he learned during a recent trip to Eastern Europe.
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“The Wounded Generation” by David Nasaw
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A celebrated historian shares years of research into the quiet and not-so-quiet struggles of millions of American veterans returning home from World War II. Guest: , historian, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and author of “.”
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Europe's growing defense industry
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The EU's ambassador to the U.S. underscores the importance of the bloc's $910 billion defense plans known as Readiness 2030. Guest: European Union Ambassador to the United States .
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Highlights from AFA's Air, Space & Cyber Conference
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Our editors explore the vibe, the headlines, the aircraft, the drones, and the other news coming out of the Air Force Association’s big annual conference at National Harbor, Maryland. Guests: Tom Novelly, Defense One senior reporter covering air and space warfare; And Lauren C. Williams, Defense One senior editor.
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How drone warfare is changing
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A researcher unpacks recent adaptations in drone technology after more than three years of Russia's ongoing Ukraine invasion. Guests: , advisor in Russia Studies at the Virginia-based research organization CNA; And Patrick Tucker, Defense One science and technology editor.
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Alpine Eagle's Jan-Hendrik Boelens
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A Munich-based developer with a new air-to-air counter-drone system shares insights into Europe's growing defense industry and recent lessons from Russia's Ukraine invasion. Guest: Jan-Hendrik Boelens, co-founder and CEO of .
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“Primal Intelligence” with Angus Fletcher
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A researcher uses his work with U.S. special operations forces to explain a new neuroscientific approach to intuition, imagination, emotion, and common sense. Guest: , Professor of Story Science at Ohio State University’s Project Narrative. His latest book is called, "," from Penguin Random House.
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The Pentagon’s Golden Dome clampdown
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Guest: Patrick Tucker, Defense One science and technology editor. Read Tucker's recent reporting on the topic below: Related reading: “,” Tucker reported on August 14; "," former Naval War College professor Tom Nichols wrote for The Atlantic on August 8; “,” also via Tucker, reporting August 5; "," May 5, via the Congressional Budget Office with an estimated total price tag for Golden Dome somewhere between $831 billion to $542 billion; See also, "," via NPR's Geoff Brumfiel, reporting April 22. Watch the futuristic,...
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The U.S. military vs. drug cartels
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Guest: Journalist and writer , whose work focuses on U.S. special operations forces around the world. Read Maurer's report for Rolling Stone, “.”
info_outlineWe listen back on more than a dozen guests from conversations across 2024.
Guests (in order):
- Fabian Hinz, research fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies;
- Bruce Hoffman, senior fellow for counterterrorism and homeland security at the Council on Foreign Relations, and co-author of "God, Guns, and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America";
- Karolina Hird, analyst and Russia Deputy Team Lead at the Institute for the Study of War;
- Elliot Ackerman, co-author of "2054: A Novel";
- Mackenzie Eaglen, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where she works on defense strategy, defense budgets, and military readiness;
- Ankit Panda, Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace;
- Chris Blattman, economist, political scientist, and Ramalee E. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies at the University of Chicago, and author of the 2022 book, "Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace";
- Mick Ryan, retired Australian Army major general, strategist, and author of “White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan";
- Dmitri Alperovitch, chairman of the Silverado Policy Accelerator, a geopolitics think-tank in Washington, and author of “World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century";
- Sam Skove, former Defense One staff writer;
- Mark Montgomery, 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;
- Peter Tamte, founder and CEO of Victura;
- And Brent Sadler, retired Navy captain and senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation.