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Dan Blumenthal and Kyle Balzer, co-authors of The True Aims of China’s Nuclear Buildup for Foreign Affairs, join the show to discuss the geopolitical implications of China’s increasing and diversifying nuclear arsenal.
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• 01:24 Introduction
• 02:40 China’s buildup
• 05:05 American perception
• 07:28 What is nuclear strategy?
• 11:49 Geopolitical vision
• 16:28 Shaping the world order
• 18:41 Restoring American credibility
• 25:10 Imagining failure
• 30:24 Prospects
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Rachel Kousser, professor of Classics and Art History at the City University of New York and author of Alexander at the End of the World, joins the show to talk about the violent, brilliant, complex career of Alexander the Great.
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• 01:27 Introduction
• 01:59 Early years and conquest
• 05:45 Pragmatic opportunist
• 09:20 Persepolis burning
• 11:48 Darius
• 14:36 Alexander in the field
• 19:30 Understanding the geography
• 25:56 Dreamer
• 29:50 “A war of choice…”
• 32:57 Building something new
• 34:36 Breaking point
• 38:00 King with consent
• 41:48 Harnessing strength
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Shyam Sankar, Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Palantir Technologies, joins the show to explain the broken Defense Department acquisition process and how he believes it can be fixed.
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• 01:24 Introduction
• 01:39 Employee #13
• 03:14 Palantir
• 06:22 Monopsony
• 11:18 Messy and chaotic
• 14:40 Dual purpose companies
• 17:18 The buying process
• 23:50 Pushback
• 25:59 Competing efforts
• 27:37 Heretics and heroes
• 31:22 Thinking about future war
• 35:05 A changing selection criteria
• 36:47 “The future is software defined”
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Mark Dubowitz, chief executive officer of Foundation for Defense of Democracies, joins the show to break down the collapse of the Assad regime and the implications for Israel, Turkey, and Iran.
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• 01:23 Introduction
• 02:49 What happened?
• 05:04 Rebels
• 08:17 Risk assessment
• 11:30 Factions
• 17:10 Extremists and radicals
• 19:15 “Our enemies lie to us…”
• 24:19 Defensive reshuffle
• 29:11 Nuclear Iran
• 34:59 A powerful message
• 42:40 Striking power
• 47:27 A new “Ring of Fire”
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Host Aaron MacLean recently embedded with the Israeli Defense Forces and saw firsthand Israel’s war with Iranian proxy groups Hezbollah and Hamas. What lessons can Americans learn from Israel’s year of fighting for its survival?
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• 03:28 The North
• 04:26 Metula
• 07:45 Yishai
• 10:00 Realities and misconceptions
• 18:06 Stalemate
• 22:33 Shaping the fight
• 40:00 Reconnaissance-strike complex
• 46:38 Dotan Razili
• 50:50 Iron Dome in action
• 54:43 Sarit Zehavi
• 1:11:01 Hezbollah defeated
• 1:12:58 “Knowing but not understanding”
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Michael Leggiere, Professor of Humanities at the University of Florida and editor of War Studies Journal 1, joins the show to discuss the sad state of military history in higher education.
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• 01:17 Introduction
• 02:48 Military history in academia
• 03:53 PME
• 05:22 What is “new” military history?
• 11:55 “History shouldn’t be a mystery”
• 17:55 The Journal
• 20:45 Suggested pieces
• 24:32 Napoleon
• 26:58 Lee
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Mackenzie Eaglen, senior fellow at AEI and author of Keeping Up with the Pacing Threat: Unveiling the True Size of Beijing’s Military Spending, joins the show to discuss the dire situation the U.S. defense budget is in.
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• 01:22 Introduction
• 02:48 Keeping up
• 05:26 China’s spending
• 10:01 Equipment costs
• 13:46 “Stealing our stuff”
• 18:25 5 alarm fire
• 20:32 U.S. budget truths
• 24:50 BCA 101
• 31:32 Today or tomorrow
• 39:23 Defense is cheaper, not better
• 43:21 Solutions
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Thomas Barfield, Professor and Chairman of the Anthropology Department at Boston University and author of Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History, joins the show to discuss empire.
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• 01:15 Introduction
• 03:20 Understanding Afghanistan
• 05:15 Classifying empires
• 09:59 Failures and features
• 12:24 Borders
• 15:30 Exogenous empires
• 21:36 Brits and Athenians
• 26:40 Vulture empires
• 32:21 Taking responsibility
• 37:15 Empires of nostalgia
• 44:50 Vacuum empires
• 51:05 American/Athenian policy
• 54:53 China and empire today
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Rebeccah Heinrichs, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and author of Duty to Deter: American Nuclear Deterrence and the Just War Doctrine, joins the show to make the moral argument for why the United States should modernize and grow its nuclear arsenal.
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• 01:15 Introduction
• 01:48 A net good
• 04:50 Tactical nuclear weapons
• 10:25 The argument of disarmament
• 14:03 Cold War strategy
• 19:53 Capability and will
• 26:06 Downside of “no first use”
• 32:03 The nuclear triad
• 37:20 Russia and China
• 40:56 The moral argument
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Randall Schriver, Chairman of the Board at The Project 2049 Institute, and Dan Blumenthal, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, join the show to discuss a road map for economic competition—and warfare—between the U.S. and China.
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• 01:55 Introduction
• 02:30 Planning for economic warfare
• 06:27 Endstate
• 10:18 Leadership
• 12:21 NSDD
• 14:59 Starting points
• 17:10 Decoupling
• 20:03 Where is the stuff coming from?
• 23:50 Degrading the Chinese economy
• 27:33 A dream of cooperation
• 32:17 Slow the growth
• 36:08 Wargaming
• 41:41 Protraction
• 44:49 International and Congressional concerns
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Watch this episode on YouTube. Frank Cohn joins the show to talk about his life: fleeing Hitler’s Germany, his return as a U.S. soldier tasked with hunting Nazi’s, his service in Vietnam, and more.
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• 01:55 Introduction
• 02:15 A Nazi in the classroom
• 05:47 Martin and Ruth
• 17:35 Leaving Germany
• 19:22 New York City
• 22:50 Pearl Harbor
• 30:47 Back to Europe
• 35:30 Nazi Hunter
• 39:48 POW for a moment
• 42:32 The Dutch lady
• 50:40 Camps
• 52:30 Crossing the Elbe
• 59:20 Interrogations
• 01:05:40 Paying back the country
• 01:08:51 Paula
• 01:14:50 Military Police and Vietnam
• 01:18:40 Angus
• 01:21:12 Lessons
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Nicholas Eberstadt, Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute, joins the show to discuss the North Korean regime and the geopolitical impact of its decision to send troops to support Russia in Ukraine.
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• 01:36 Introduction
• 01:49 Finding North Korea
• 04:00 The Sung dynasty
• 09:24 Beijing and Moscow
• 14:43 Kim Jong Il
• 22:14 Mackinder’s World-Island
• 26:29 Interconnected
• 33:18 Why commit to Russia?
• 36:55 Limited imaginations
• 39:03 New differences
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Nick Lloyd, Professor of Modern Warfare in the Defence Studies at King’s College London and author of The Eastern Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918, joins the show to discuss the critical role of the eastern front in World War I.
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• 01:43 Introduction
• 02:09 “The soul of the war”
• 04:00 Before the fighting
• 05:59 War aims
• 10:51 Tannenberg
• 15:54 Hindenburg and Ludendorff
• 19:57 Scale
• 22:40 Combat
• 27:14 Munitions scarcity
• 32:10 Russian collapse
• 36:45 Lenin returns
• 40:42 Brest-Litovsk
• 44:16 Proto-lebensraum
• 47:20 The West
• 52:30 War as a way out
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Ben Noon of the Vandenberg Coalition writes about US-China rivalry and geopolitics. He joins the show to discuss the critical fight for semiconductor dominance.
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• 01:38 Introduction
• 02:15 Semiconductors
• 05:49 Legacy and advanced chips
• 09:47 China’s chip script
• 14:21 What’s the big deal?
• 19:20 Trade policy
• 25:11 Containment
• 28:10 Ratcheting up tensions
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Scott Hartwig, author ofI Dread the Thought of the Place: The Battle of Antietam and the End of the Maryland Campaign, joins the show to discuss the single bloodiest day in American military history, the Battle of Antietam.
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• 01:46 Introduction
• 02:19 Why Antietam?
• 09:09 Sourcing history
• 12:45 Limited to total war
• 21:24 McClellan
• 28:00 Lee in Maryland
• 34:57 Geography
• 46:20 South Mountain to Antietam
• 55:49 The fighting
• 01:02:12 Mass and maneuver
• 01:04:44 Lee escapes
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Jacqueline Deal, President and CEO of the Long Term Strategy Group and recently the author of the article Competing against Ourselves: How U.S. Policy Strengthens China, joins the show to discuss U.S.-China competition.
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• 01:15 Introduction
• 01:53 Net assessment
• 04:32 China’s view
• 08:20 Is entanglement the goal?
• 14:34 Changing the global balance
• 21:45 Communism
• 25:47 “Their own worst enemy”
• 30:12 CCP & manipulation
• 35:06 Weaponized supply chains
• 39:12 Getting their attention
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Nicholas Morton, Senior Lecturer in History, Nottingham Trent University and author of The Crusader States and their Neighbours: A Military History, 1099-1187, joins the show to discuss the Crusades.
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• 01:25 Introduction
• 02:21 What were the Crusades?
• 07:30 Franks and Turks
• 09:57 Combat
• 14:01 50/50
• 19:48 Sieges
• 23:47 Others
• 31:31 Seljuks
• 36:50 Crusader States
• 41:28 Why did they fail?
• 45:19 Continuity and complexity
• 49:45 Fluidity
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Katherine Kuzminski, Director of the Military, Veterans, and Society Program at CNAS, joins the show to discuss recruiting and mass mobilization in the event of war.
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• 01:33 Introduction
• 02:08 Why worry about mobilization?
• 03:54 Meeting the threshold
• 06:58 Low yield
• 11:37 A loss of identity
• 15:42 Aging up
• 21:38 The Russian model
• 23:55 Israeli lessons
• 26:38 Working with what we have
• 32:05 Infantry concerns
• 35:05 Women in the draft
• 39:12 Deterrent value
• 41:20 Sustaining industry
• 43:45 An “I” society
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Mark Dubowitz, chief executive of Foundation for Defense of Democracies, joins the show to help us understand breaking developments in the war between Israel, Iran, and Iran’s regional proxies.
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• 01:41 Introduction
• 02:24 Iran’s missile attack
• 03:56 Iranian intentions
• 06:34 Options
• 11:27 Iranian concerns
• 14:59 Ring of fire
• 19:10 Near term calculus
• 23:49 Regime change
• 28:52 Reagan strategy
• 32:55 A “good” deal
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Alex Miller, Senior Advisor for Science and Technology and the CTO to the Chief of Staff of the Army, joins the show to talk about how we are preparing to fight on the battlefields of the future—which are here today.
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• 01:17 Introduction
• 01:32 CTO
• 04:48 Scale/E.W./drones
• 09:06 How we buy
• 13:07 Transforming in Contact
• 18:15 Electronic warfare
• 22:37 Defensive spectrum
• 25:20 An invisible world
• 28:12 Drone warfare
• 35:05 Humans and machines
• 37:49 What does the Army need?
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