D Brief Weekly: Feb. 27
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“Until the Last Gun Is Silent” by Matthew Delmont
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Guest: , professor of history at Dartmouth College and an award-winning author of several books including Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad, and his latest, .
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Fictional intelligence
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Guests: , strategist at New America and the author of multiple books on technology and security, including Wired for War, Ghost Fleet, Burn-In, and LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media; And , non-resident senior fellow at the Scowcroft Center on Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council, and associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute working on AI and future warfare. With Singer, he is the co-author of Ghost Fleet and Burn In. Both authors have teamed up again for a new monthly series on Defense One called "," which explores the future of...
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D Brief Weekly: Feb. 20
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D Brief Weekly: Feb. 13
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D Brief Weekly: Feb. 6
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D Brief Weekly: Jan. 30
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The known perils of regime change
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A scholar of civil wars warns against repeating the past mistakes from U.S. military interventions abroad. Guest: , director of the Center for Strategic Studies and a professor of international politics at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; her essay “Can the US ‘run’ Venezuela? Military force can topple a dictator, but it cannot create political authority or legitimacy” was published earlier this month in .
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Introducing: The D Brief Weekly
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A new audio roundup of leading national security news for the week ending January 23, 2026. If you'd like to read our daily newsletter, The D Brief, you can find that here: And if you're not already subscribed, you can do that here: Note: While we plan to use AI audio cloning in future "D Brief Weekly" episodes, we did not use it for this episode.
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Conflicts to watch in 2026
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CFR's Paul Stares unpacks the latest annual survey of foreign policy experts bracing for what might lie ahead. Guest: , General John W. Vessey senior fellow for conflict prevention and director of the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations. Read the 2026 Preventive Priorities Survey results published this week at CFR .
info_outlineThe EU's ambassador to the U.S. underscores the importance of the bloc's $910 billion defense plans known as Readiness 2030.
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- European Union Ambassador to the United States Jovita Neliupšienė.