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Richard Fontaine, CEO of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) and co-author of No Limits? The China-Russia Relationship and U.S. Foreign Policy, joins the show to discuss Beijing-Moscow cooperation and the prospects of the U.S. driving a wedge between them.
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• 02:05 Introduction
• 02:21 Sino-Soviet split
• 06:20 Spheres of influence
• 09:17 Domination
• 13:20 Stabilizing effect
• 22:15 Xi & Putin
• 28:19 Pacific expansion
• 35:20 More resources
• 41:06 America in, Russians out, Germans down
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Walter Russell Mead, Alexander Hamilton Professor of Strategy and Statecraft at the University of Florida's Hamilton Center and columnist for The Wall Street Journal, joins the show to talk about the role of economic issues in Trump’s strategic views.
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• 01:34 Introduction
• 04:09 Mercantilism & physiocracy
• 08:50 Silicon Valley
• 14:01 Coalitions
• 16:26 How things worked
• 22:52 Post-war policy & China
• 33:17 Tariffs
• 42:50 Executive overreach
• 45:53 The dollar
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Lara Burns, retired FBI Special Agent and head of terrorism research at the Program on Extremism at The George Washington University, joins the show to talk about how Islamist groups operate in the United States.
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• 01:32 Introduction
• 01:48 Terrorism squad
• 03:10 The Muslim Brotherhood
• 06:20 Hamas
• 14:26 The money
• 26:03 Oppressors
• 32:39 American Muslims for Palestine
• 35:18 All connected
• 43:07 Information campaign
• 50:19 Understanding
• 55:01 Fighting back
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Alexander Burns, Assistant Professor of History at Franciscan University and author of Infantry in Battle 1733-1783 (From Reason to Revolution), joins the show to talk about how combat evolved in the decades between Marlborough and Napoleon.
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• 01:45 Introduction
• 02:19 1733
• 06:20 Infantry in battle
• 10:54 Achieving results
• 14:19 Tactical effectivness
• 18:40 Prussia
• 24:17 More than fear
• 29:45 Early nationalism
• 33:12 American evolution
• 38:50 Drones and prestige
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Tom Cotton, U.S. senator from Arkansas and author of Seven Things You Can't Say About China, joins the show to talk about the CCP’s global designs.
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• 01:48 Introduction
• 02:30 Paying attention
• 05:38 Bipartisan
• 08:38 Early days
• 13:54 Strategic delays
• 16:13 An evil empire
• 18:45 “What’s it to us?”
• 22:04 Lynchpin
• 25:24 Splitting the axis
• 28:39 China and Ukraine
• 34:00 More dangerous
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Sean McMeekin, Professor of European History and Culture at Bard College and author of To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism, joins the show to talk about Communist approaches to foreign policy and war.
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• 01:35 Introduction
• 02:39 Communism and war
• 11:02 Giving history a shove
• 16:41 Lenin’s vision
• 20:55 A united front
• 25:54 Infiltration
• 28:45 Stalin at the helm
• 34:51 Ups and downs
• 41:10 Driving a wedge
• 43:37 “We resemble them more than they resemble us…”
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Michael Cook, Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University and author of A History of the Muslim World: From Its Origins to the Dawn of Modernity, joins the show to discuss the sudden, explosive Arab expansion of the 7th century.
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• 01:46 Introduction
• 03:05 Sources
• 04:42 War and politics
• 07:32 Grass and sand
• 09:30 Self-defense
• 12:21 Ibn Khaldun
• 16:11 An Arab identity
• 18:45 Knock on effects
• 26:40 Two targets
• 28:32 The Arab way of war
• 34:50 Coming out of the desert
• 38:48 Civil war
• 42:27 Jihad
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Stephen Kotkin, Kleinheinz Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, joins the show to discuss how both sides have lost the Ukraine War, and the risks of various routes to peace.
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• 02:47 Pressuring Putin
• 12:50 A new path
• 17:07 Avoiding a debacle
• 32:43 Friends
• 38:30 Realignment
• 46:58 Articulating strategy
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Phillips O’Brien, chair of Strategic Studies at the University of St. Andrews and author of The Strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini, and Hitler--How War Made Them and How They Made War, joins the show to discuss the nature of strategic decision making in World War II and beyond.
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• 01:50 Introduction
• 02:48 Germany 1st debunked
• 06:50 A matter of choices
• 08:20 Management styles
• 11:23 FDR the navalist
• 14:42 Strategic balance
• 16:52 The British Empire
• 18:58 Churchill the shapeshifter
• 26:42 Britain’s place
• 29:22 Casablanca
• 33:54 Making Hitler
• 38:43 Firepower + racial superiority
• 42:41 Delaying defeat
• 44:55 A childish view of war
• 46:50 Human decisions
• 48:28 Stalin the survivor
• 51:30 “Not nice people”
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Mark Montgomery, senior director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at FDD and retired U.S. Navy rear admiral, joins the show to discuss how prepared (or ill-prepared) the U.S. is for cyber warfare.
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• 03:24 Introduction
• 04:20 America: A Target Rich Environment
• 05:59 Cyber and mobilization
• 08:35 What actually happens?
• 11:36 Automation
• 16:18 Salt and volt typhoon
• 22:04 Continuity of the economy
• 28:33 Offense
• 35:05 Cyber responses
• 38:43 Public opinion
• 41:43 Defense of the homeland
• 49:30 A new kind of leader
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Christopher Kolakowski, director of the Wisconsin Veterans Museum and editor of Tenth Army Commander: The World War II Diary of Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., joins the show to discuss the most senior U.S. officer killed by enemy action in WWII, Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.
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• 01:44 Introduction
• 02:15 In the shadows
• 03:53 Fathers and sons
• 06:28 Childhood
• 09:30 West Point Commandant of Cadets
• 16:03 Alaska ’41
• 20:18 The Japanese threat
• 24:20 10th Army
• 29:03 Notes for an unwritten memoir
• 31:02 Operation Causeway
• 35:47 Okinawa
• 41:52 Attrition
• 43:50 Another Anzio?
• 50:57 Homeward bound
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David Betz, Professor of War in the Modern World at King’s College London and author of The Guarded Age: Fortification in the Twenty-First Century, joins the show to discuss how fortification is alive, well, and everywhere.
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• 01:22 Introduction
• 01:53 A default condition
• 13:20 Why is that there?
• 22:13 Alexandrian foundations
• 28:50 Security and mobility
• 39:53 The pendulum swings
• 48:54 Intrigue
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Mick Ryan, a retired major general in the Australian Army and author of War Transformed: The Future of Twenty-First-Century Great Power Competition and Conflict, joins the show to discuss future-war fiction and the possible futures of current wars.
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• 01:23 Introduction
• 02:10 Tom Clancy
• 05:40 Accessibility
• 07:14 The Battle of Dorking
• 09:57 White Sun War
• 13:39 Diplomatic failures
• 15:40 Friction
• 18:50 Israel transformed
• 23:00 Existential threats
• 25:25 Ukraine
• 32:31 Pressuring Putin
• 35:01 Taiwan and Japan
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Hal Brands, Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and author of The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern World, joins the show to discuss the continued relevance of geopolitics.
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• 01:29 Introduction
• 01:54 Twentieth century
• 03:29 Advent of geopolitical theory
• 07:08 Land versus sea
• 13:09 Authoritarianism
• 17:40 Struggle for power
• 20:30 Burdens of defense
• 23:25 Eurasia
• 27:50 Different politics
• 36:09 “…a kind of American realism”
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Tom Karako, Senior Fellow and Director of the Missile Defense Project at CSIS, joins the show to discuss what President Trump’s executive order on missile defense portends.
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• 01:15 Introduction
• 02:08 Dawn of missile defense
• 05:50 Ups and downs
• 10:40 Arguments against
• 14:50 Capabilities
• 18:45 A layered defense
• 22:20 Cost
• 26:42 Tried and tested
• 28:21 A “Pearl Harbor” Pearl Harbor
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Eric Chewning and Thomas Moore of HII join the show to discuss America’s military shipbuilding challenges, and their potential solutions.
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• 01:32 Introduction
• 01:55 Origins
• 07:08 An eroded defense industrial base
• 10:20 Shipbuilding in 2025
• 17:11 Deindustrialization
• 21:46 Learning curves
• 27:00 Contract economics
• 32:26 Japan and South Korea
• 37:39 Thinking about the whole problem
• 39:03 Manned and unmanned
• 42:25 Force protection
• 45:06 Soft kills and hard kills
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Diana Mara Henry and Gabe Scheinmann join the show to discuss the new book I Am André: German Jew, French Resistance Fighter, British Spy, which charts the astonishing, brave, and tragic World War II career of ‘André’ Joseph Scheinmann.
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• 01:50 Introduction
• 03:01 The story of a fighter
• 09:26 Born in Munich
• 11:87 Citizen without a country
• 17:08 Liaison to the High Command
• 21:46 MI6
• 25:20 Spycraft
• 30:27 London and capture
• 36:31 Interrogation
• 42:52 Max and Regina
• 46:40 Natzweiler
• 52:29 Dachau
• 55:30 America
• 01:01:17 “Jews as fighters”
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Evan Mawdsley, Honorary Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow and author of Supremacy at Sea: Task Force 58 and the Central Pacific Victory, joins the show to discuss the successful 1944 U.S. naval campaign through the Central Pacific in World War II.
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• 01:36 Introduction
• 02:27 The Central Pacific
• 11:15 Carrier air power
• 14:31 Embracing the task force
• 20:00 Replenishment at sea
• 24:28 A campaign for airbases
• 27:56 Limiting loss
• 33:38 Spruance & Mitscher
• 38:36 Japanese defense doctrine
• 45:58 Parallels today
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Dmitry Filipoff, associate research analyst at the Center for Navy Analyses, joins the show to discuss the U.S. Navy surface component and the grave challenges it faces.
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• 01:19 Introduction
• 02:09 Lessons from the Red Sea
• 06:35 Friendly fire
• 10:55 Depletion
• 13:45 2027
• 18:07 How do fleets fight?
• 21:47 Scope and scale
• 24:57 “Catastrophic destruction”
• 29:00 The first few hours
• 34:30 Scripted exercises
• 37:15 Managing the chaos
• 41:34 Failing constructively
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Nadège Rolland, Distinguished Fellow, China Studies, at the National Bureau of Asian Research and author of Mapping China's Strategic Space, joins the show to discuss how to better understand the geopolitical premises of China’s strategic elites.
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• 01:36 Introduction
• 02:04 Strategic space
• 05:05 Mao’s strategic vision
• 11:12 Origin points
• 17:10 Geopolitical dimensions
• 20:25 Finding answers
• 26:35 Encirclement
• 33:55 Core interests
• 38:56 China’s end goal
• 45:37 Multilateralism
• 49:04 Risk and overextension
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