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Great discussions with security, defense, and foreign policy experts recorded over drinks.
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CleanA Tale of Two Speeches: U.S.-Russian Relations Through the Lens of Munich | We’re going to try something a little different with this episode of the podcast, and I think you’re going to like it. If you listened to our last episode, you know our focus was on the Munich Security Conference – a major annual event that hosts he | 3/2/2016 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanFour Key Leaders in Munich on the State of the World | The Munich Security Conference brings together leaders from all around the world to discuss defense, foreign policy, and strategy - the bread and butter of War on the Rocks. It has been called the Davos of international security. Our editor-in-chief, | 2/16/2016 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHacking Defense and Iraq’s Controversial Security Groups | We have a two-parter for you in this episode. First, WOTR's Ryan Evans spoke with Steve Blank of Silicon Valley fame about his new course, "Hacking Defense." The class just launched at Stanford, but Steve has plans to proliferate it around the country.... | 2/8/2016 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanJournalism, the Military, and America’s Wars | The relationship between journalists and the U.S. military is simultaneously intimate and distant. In the last several decades and the last two in particular, many things have changed in the way that journalists cover the military, | 1/25/2016 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Obama Administration and the Middle East: An Insider’s View | WOTR's Ryan Evans sat down with Colin Kahl, the National Security Advisor to Vice Present Joe Biden, to talk about the mess of the Middle East and what the Obama administration is doing about it. From Iran to the Gulf states to Syria to Iraq to Turkey ... | 1/12/2016 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanFighting Russia in Europe and a Dose of Military Fiction | We are trying something a little new with our podcast series. Segments! And music! In the first segment of our new podcast, Ryan Evans sits down with Claude Berube to talk about his new novel, Syren's Song. Ryan then joins Gen. | 12/16/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAsh Carter: The Interview | How will the U.S. military stay competitive? This is about far more than platforms, bombs, and guns. It is fundamentally about people. And with archaic personnel systems plaguing the armed forces and the Department of Defense, | 11/18/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Vatican’s Cloak-and-Dagger War Against Hitler | In histories of the Second World War, the Vatican has not fared well. Pope Pius XII has been condemned as "Hitler's Pope" and the Church castigated for not doing enough to avert war and save the victims of the Third Reich. | 11/1/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAround the World: Episode 2 | What's going on around the world? For our latest podcast, WOTR editor-in-chief Ryan Evans was joined by a great group to talk about Russia and its intervention in Syria, the Middle East more broadly, America's approach to foreign policy, | 10/13/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanNavigating the Islamic State Challenge | Will McCants of the Brookings Institution and David Ignatius of The Washington Post sat down with Ryan Evans to chat about the topic of Will's new book, ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doomsday Vision of the Islamic State. | 9/24/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe State of Russian Strategy: Ukraine, Syria, and Beyond | Dmitry Gorenburg, an occasional WOTR contributor and expert on Russian military affairs at the CNA Corporation, sat down with Ryan Evans to chat about the state of Russia's armed forces, its campaigns in Ukraine and Syria, Putin as a strategist, | 9/21/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanNATSEC2016: A Podcast on the 2016 Elections and National Security | Ah, the 2016 presidential election. Trump still leads the GOP field, Hillary has been challenged in the polls by Bernie Sanders and the shadow of Joe Biden looms large over the Democratic hopefuls. And whether it's the Islamic State, Russia, | 9/14/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanHacking the Defense Industry | Is the American defense industry ready for what is coming next? Can it adapt, survive, and thrive in an era of paradigm-changing new technologies? Can the industry maintain America's military superiority in the face of the U.S. | 9/9/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanAmerica, China, and Xi Jinping’s Visit to Washington | In the latest installment of our podcast, we gathered some top Asia wonks - WOTR Senior Editor Van Jackson of CNAS, Evan Montgomery of CSBA, Mira-Rapp Hooper of CSIS, and Samm Sacks of the Eurasia Group. The topic? The state of U.S. | 9/8/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanA Relentless Conversation About JSOC | One organization has been behind America's most daring raids, from the deserts of Iraq and Syria to the hills of Pakistan to the jungles of South America. That organization is Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). - Ryan Evans, | 8/31/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPODCAST: Infantry Combat from Modern Ukraine back to World War I | TM Gibbons-Neff of The Washington Post (and formerly of the U.S. Marine Corps) and Dr. Bruce Gudmundsson of Marine Corps University joined WOTR's Ryan Evans to talk about TM's recent reporting from the front in Eastern Ukraine through the lens of the | 8/26/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPODCAST: Drinking Through Naval History | In this week's podcast, navalists B.J. Armstrong and Scott Cheney-Peters joined Alex Hecht, the editor of the Molotov Cocktail channel, and Ryan Evans for a carousing (but responsible) imbibing of naval history through four naval drinks: grog, | 8/14/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPODCAST: Around the World, Ep. 1 | At War on the Rocks, we are re-vamping our podcast series. We will be holding one podcast a week. The first of each month will be 'round the world. We will discuss the most pressing global security issues...over drinks of course. - Have a listen! - | 8/4/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPODCAST: A Novelist and a Historian Walk Into a Bar | In today's podcast, John Amble talks to August Cole of the Atlantic Council's Art of Future Warfare project and B.J. Armstrong, a historian and naval officer, about how we approach the critical task of forecasting the future of warfare. | 7/28/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPODCAST: The war with China you’ve been waiting for | I had the distinct pleasure of sitting down with PW Singer and August Cole to talk about their new book, Ghost Fleet: A Novel of the Next World War. Yes, these two wonks wrote some fiction and it's an impressive piece of work. In Ghost Fleet, | 6/30/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanVP’s National Security Adviser on the Iran Deal: Colin Kahl Gives an Insider’s View | The deadline for a deal on the Iranian nuclear program is on June 30. Just weeks before the deadline, Colin Kahl, the National Security Adviser to Vice President Joe Biden, sat down with Ryan Evans to talk about the nuclear negotiations over drinks at .. | 6/11/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPODCAST: National Security and the Schoolhouse | This is a very special Schoolhouse edition of the War on the Rocks podcast series. As many of you know, our Schoolhouse series is concerned with the intersection between policy and the academy. Is scholarship relevant to the policymaker? | 5/20/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPODCAST: War on the Rocks goes to Istanbul | Four members of the War on the Rocks squad ended up in Istanbul this week. What could go wrong? - Afshon Ostovar of the CNA Corporation, Aaron Stein of RUSI, Joshua Walker of GMF, and Ryan Evans of your favorite outlet on strategy, defense, | 5/7/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe Fog of Peace: Defense and Uncertainty | Editor's Note: I was honored to attend Professor Patrick Porter's inaugural lecture, celebrating his appointment at the University of Exeter as the academic director of the Strategy and Security Institute. Patrick is one of the most insightful and enga.. | 4/30/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanThe State of the World: A Conversation with Lawrence Freedman | Yesterday, Lawrence Freedman of King's College London joined me for a conversation on the state of the world atop the ME Hotel's rooftop bar in central London, Radio. From the Middle East, to Russia, to China, to Britain's role in the world, | 4/29/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPODCAST: The Islamic State’s War in Iraq and Syria | This is the podcast in which War on the Rocks fixes the Middle East...ok, we kid, but it is a fascinating conversation with some of the most astute and informed U.S. experts on Iraq and the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). - | 4/15/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanCybersecurity over Sazeracs | We got together a great panel of experts to talk all things cybersecurity, with a little bit of ClintonEmail.com and comedy troupes mixed in. - Listen here to Jason Healey of the Atlantic Council, Shane Harris of The Daily Beast, | 3/5/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPODCAST: Asian Maritime Security and a Rising China | Last night, just hours before President Obama delivered the State of the Union address, Ryan Evans sat down with Mira-Rapp Hooper of CSIS, Bryan McGrath of the Hudson Institute's Center for American Seapower, RADM Mike McDevitt (ret) of CNA, | 1/21/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPODCAST: South Asia meets East Asia | Andrew Small of the German Marshall Fund, Stephen Tankel of American University and WOTR, and Joshua White of the Stimson Center joined Ryan Evans to talk about South and East Asian regional affairs, including the complex web of relations between Pakis... | 1/13/2015 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPODCAST: Spitballing Offset Strategy | We recently sat down with the gang at the Center for a New American Security to discuss offset strategies. As you can see from the photo, we had all the important props one would need to plan how the United States will maintain its military technologic... | 12/23/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanOn Strategy and Strategists | Editor's note: Recently, the Clements Center of the University of Texas at Austin and the King's College London War Studies Department held an important conference on the "special relationship" between the United Kingdom and the United States in the la. | 12/4/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPODCAST: Naval and Maritime Strategy | Admiral Chris Parry (ret.) of the Royal United Services Institute, Bryan McGrath of Hudson's Center for American Seapower, and Evan Montgomery of CSBA joined Ryan Evans for a wide-ranging conversation on naval strategy, a rising China, | 10/21/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPODCAST: Asian Security – Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Confrontation with China | We sat down to talk Asian security at the Jefferson Hotel's Quill Bar. Our guests included: Dean Cheng, Senior Fellow at the Heritage Foundation. Robert Haddick, an independent consultant for special operations command and author of Fire on the W... | 10/8/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPodcast: In Search of a Middle East Strategy | Some of the sharpest minds on the Middle East in town sat down over drinks to tackle some of the most troublesome problems in the world's most troublesome region. Have a listen! - Soner Cagaptay is the Beyer Family fellow and director of the Turki... | 9/19/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPODCAST: America’s Search for Security with Sean Kay | Yesterday, Ryan Evans sat down with Sean Kay over a couple beers at the Jefferson Hotel's wonderful Quill Bar to discuss America's foreign policy trajectory and Sean's new book, America's Search for Security: The Triumph of Idealism and the Return of R. | 9/11/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPODCAST: Bourbon with a splash of counter-insurgency | What about counterinsurgency? At a time when all eyes are focused on the potential outbreak of a "conventional" war in Ukraine, Doug Ollivant, David Ucko and Ryan Evans sat down to consider counterinsurgency over fine bourbon (Noah's Mill, | 3/31/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanBroken Mirrors Episode 5: The Operation of Intelligence in a Democracy | This is the second of a two-part podcast set on the concept, and uses, of Strategic Intelligence. In this episode, Marc and Tom discuss how intelligence functions within democratic societies in an effort to look at how a theory of intelligence can emer... | 3/28/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanA Conversation with the Chairman: General Martin E. Dempsey | We sat down with General Martin E. Dempsey in his office to talk strategy, the profession of arms, military compensation reform, and professional military education. Interview Transcript (courtesy Federal News Service, Washington, DC): | 2/24/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPODCAST: Contemporary Nuclear Strategy | Ryan Evans sat down with an august panel of gentlemen and a gentlelady to discuss issues related to contemporary nuclear strategy. The guests: Elbridge Colby, Fellow, Center for a New American Security Thomas C. Moore, | 2/17/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPODCAST: Cyberwar and Cybersecurity | Max Fisher of the Washington Post and Ryan Evans sat down recently with Peter Singer and Allan Friedman of the Brookings Institution to discuss their new book, Cyberwar and Cybersecurity: What Everyone Needs to Know. It was a fun, wide-ranging, | 1/7/2014 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPODCAST: Counter-Terrorism, Drones, Syria, & More | JM Berger, Will McCants, and Clint Watts sat down with Ryan Evans at the Jefferson Hotel to talk about a range of subjects related to counter-terrorism. What could be more appropriate for Christmas? Have a listen! - - Image: Department of Defense | 12/24/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanStrategic Surprise, Intelligence and Terrorism: Developing a Tolerance for Disaster | This is the first of a two-part podcast set on the concept, and uses, of Strategic Intelligence. In this episode, Tom and I lay out the actual, social function of Strategic Intelligence and look at it place in the long history of divination. | 12/17/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPODCAST: Nuclear Strategy and the Cold War | Last night, I sat down to talk nuclear strategy with William Rosenau of the Center for Naval Analysis, defense analyst Elbridge Colby, Robert Zarate of the Foreign Policy Initiative, and Stanley Orman – a former nuclear arms wizard who saved the U.S. | 12/10/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Clean50 years on, can we still learn from JFK’s strategy? | Editor's Note: We are pleased to feature this talk by Sir Lawrence Freedman, which took place this week at the British Embassy in Washington, DC. Special thanks to the King's College London Alumni Office and the British Embassy. | 11/7/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanBroken Mirrors, Episode 3: Fear & (In)Security Theatre | "Nil terribile nisi ipse timor" - In this episode, Tom Quiggin and I take a hard, realist look at the concept, and tactic, of terrorism. In the first segment, we look at how the tactic of terrorism is structured, and how it can, and has, | 10/30/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPODCAST: The War in your Wallet: The Real Invisible Hand | In this podcast, we take a look at a rarely discussed, structural vulnerability in advanced societies: the payments and settlements system. We first put this system in the historical context of economic warfare, | 10/4/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPODCAST: Pivoting around and around in the Middle East | Last night, some of Washington's finest national security minds met me at the cabinet room in the Jefferson Hotel bar to talk shop. Elbridge Colby, William Rosenau, and Afshon Ostovar - all of the Center for Naval Analyses - were joined by surprise | 9/25/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPODCAST: Broken Mirrors, Episode 1 | Editor's Note: War on the Rocks is proud to start featuring podcasts from its Canadian affiliate, Broken Mirrors. In this inaugural episode of Broken Mirrors, Marc Tyrrell and Tom Quiggin (me) introduce the podcast's foundations and discuss Canada/US... | 9/3/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPODCAST: Syria, Secrets, and Some Snark | Last night, Eli Lake of the Daily Beast and Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a WOTR contributor, joined Senior Editor Mark Stout and me at the Jefferson Hotel, where we discussed some of the more pressing issues in foreign and security policy over drinks in on... | 8/28/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPodcast: Talking Terrorism with Pantucci and Simcox | On Friday, I sat down for a great talk over drinks with Raffaello Pantucci, a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, and Robin Simcox, a research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society. | 8/18/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPodcast: War from the Ground up with Simpson and McInnis | Last Thursday I invited Emile Simpson and Kathleen McInnis to join me at the American Bar at the Savoy Hotel in London to talk about Emile's book, "War from the Ground Up: Twenty-First Century Combat as Politics. | 8/1/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPODCAST: More Irregular Warfare Fun | This is Part Two of my session with Lieutenant Colonel Brian A. Payne and David Kasten of the U.S. Army Irregular Warfare Center (AIWC) at the Jefferson Hotel bar here in Washington, DC. Did you listen to Part One? If not, | 7/31/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanPodcast: Talking COIN with the folks from the Army Irregular Warfare Center | I recently sat down with Lieutenant Colonel Brian A. Payne and David Kasten of the U.S. Army Irregular Warfare Center (AIWC) at the Jefferson Hotel bar here in Washington, DC. This is part one of that conversation. | 7/29/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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CleanFirst WOTR Podcast: Bill Rosenau, Will McCants, and Afshon Ostovar | The other day, I sat down with War on the Rocks contributors Bill Rosenau, Will McCants, and Afshon Ostovar - all of the Strategic Studies Center at the Center for Naval Analyses - for a conversation that ranged widely from Syria to Snowden to the thin... | 7/8/2013 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fantastic podcast, very insightful and never boring. Also a great website with equally as good content.
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One of the best NatSec podcasts out there. Doesn't gloss over details and doesn't talk to you like you're 12. Keep up the awesome work!
Great Foreign Policy Analysis
"War is politics by other means." a continuation War on the Rocks blog, Love the analysis of diplomatic, intelligence, and military policy. Anyone, who is interested in congent analysis on todays news and foreign policy concerns should listen to this.
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