Ep. 189 — Two top Hamas commanders walk into a Gaza villa…
(…and don’t walk out.) Amidst the chaos of this weekend’s assassination attempt against President Trump, the Israel Defense Forces took advantage of Hamas being on the ropes in Gaza by conducting an o...
16 Heinä 202430min
Ep. 188 — Hostage diplomacy with terrorists
Bill and Joe catch up on headlines related to the war in Gaza and the additional Iranian-backed conflicts at Israeli borders, including a status update on the latest round of hostage negotiations, act...
8 Heinä 202444min
Ep. 186 — A conversation with Lieutenant General Sami Sadat
Bill and Will Selber are joined by Lieutenant General Sami Sadat who among many other roles served as deputy commander of the Afghan ground forces and later the deputy chief of staff of the Afghan Nat...
2 Heinä 20241h 26min
Ep. 185 — Cognitive Combat
Bill is joined by his colleague Bradley Bowman to talk about a new FDD monograph edited by Brad, Cognitive Combat: China, Russia, and Iran’s Information War Against Americans. They discuss ways in whi...
29 Kesä 20241h 4min
Ep. 184 — PSA for Israel: take our weapons, not our advice
Bill and Will explain why Israel is not fighting an insurgency in Gaza as they unpack (and dismantle) a recent Foreign Affairs article authored by David Petraeus et al: Israel’s War of Regime Change I...
27 Kesä 202442min
Ep. 183 — Day after tomorrow in southern Lebanon?
Bill and Joe unpack recent headlines related to Israel’s defensive war in Gaza and simmering tensions in its north with Hezbollah, including the IDF chief of staff saying that Hamas brigades in Rafa h...
25 Kesä 202443min
Ep. 182 — When terrorists act like terrorists
Bill and Behnam discuss new sanctions that dropped this week, including Canada’s designation of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the U.S. designation of a proxy militia in Iraq; the Houthi...
22 Kesä 202442min
Ep. 181 — Al Qaeda’s leader has a new rallying cry. We should listen.
The (still technically unofficial) leader of Al Qaeda, Saif al-Adel, wrote an article under a pseudonym calling for people around the world to flock to Afghanistan for training to conduct attacks agai...
18 Kesä 202449min
