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, “.”
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- Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov in conversation with Defense One’s Patrick Tucker on the sidelines of the GLOBSEC 2025 conference in Prague.
Defense One is media partner for this year's 20th edition of the GLOBSEC Forum in Prague.