Nuclear Sponges and the New Nuclear Arms Race
Nuclear war. These days it feels like we’re closer to Global Thermonuclear Annihilation than at any time since the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists—an organization of expert...
10 Aug 201929min
Libya Is the Future of War
Libya. Dictator Muammar Gaddafi ruled the country from 1969 to 2011. The Arab Spring led to a Civil War and the deposition and death of Gadaffi in 2011. The country never quite recovered and remains i...
3 Aug 201946min
Eating at KFC in Kurdistan
This week on War College, producer Kevin Knodell is back from his trip to the Middle East and he’s got stories. He shares his experiences climbing a mountain in Kurdistan, eating at KFCs that are bett...
27 Jul 201955min
America’s Foreign Policy Has a Cold War Hangover
Thinking about geopolitics is all about picking the right metaphor. After World War II, America’s elite conceived of a world engaged in a Cold War, where the United States and Soviet Union played a ga...
19 Jul 201941min
ICYMI: How the Allies Trolled Hitler With Magick
Adolf Hitler’s deputy, Rudolf Hess, was obsessed with the occult. He attempted to read minds and used astrological star charts to inform his battle plans. On the allied side, English magician Aleister...
5 Jul 201932min
Bellingcat Talks Tankers, Deepfakes, and State Propaganda
Misinformation. Grainy and low resolution images from government sources. Signals intelligence. Satellite imagery. Photographs and social media posts from those nearby. Online databases of vast and pu...
28 Jun 201932min
Iran and America’s Complicated Recent History
On June 13, explosions—probably from Limpet Mines—hit two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman. The United States has blamed Iran. On June 20, Iran shot down one of the United States’ Navy RQ-4 Global Hawk...
21 Jun 20191h 21min
War Robots, AI Targeting in Megacities, and Other Things We Learned From the US Army
China and America are two of the world’s great powers. Their economies are intertwined, their military’s powerful, and their soft power spreading across the globe. And tensions are rising. Neither sid...
14 Jun 201932min
