TEASER: War Literature as Culture War Fodder
Sign up at angryplanetpod.com to get instant access to the full episode.Writing, even fiction writing, about war provides a clear-eyed and honest view of conflict that the best movies and television s...
20 Mar 202412min
Nuclear War and Imagining the Unimaginable
The U.S. is spending $2 trillion to overhaul its nuclear weapons. China is building ICBM silos in the desert. Russia has spent the last ten years talking about its fancy new nukes. After decades of dr...
18 Mar 20241h 2min
What Would an End Game Look Like in Gaza?
It's easy to say the words "two-state solution" between Israel and the Palestinians, but as Steven Cook of the Council on Foreign Relations explains, there are plenty of reasons why there hasn't been ...
13 Mar 202459min
America’s Fight in the Red Sea
Since the middle of December, a U.S.-led coalition has been trading munitions with Houthis in Yemen. The day after Christmas, USS Dwight D. Eisenhower began participating in strikes against targets al...
11 Mar 20241h 6min
It’s Time to Retire the Term ‘Proxy War’
One of the persistent themes of Angry Planet has been that smaller countries in the spheres of influence of great powers have far greater control over their destinies than it would appear. If the rece...
29 Feb 202458min
Can You Fight a Moral War in a Tight Space?
Retired Colonel John Spencer, who is a combat veteran who now teaches at West Point, joins Matthew and Jason for a second time. This time we're not talking about how to carry out urban warfare, but we...
15 Feb 20241h
Ore Is the New Oil
Oil makes the world go ‘round, for now. But rare earth minerals such as lithium are increasingly in demand and, as a result, the source of conflict. With us on the show today is Reuters journalist Ern...
30 Jan 202449min
How Ukraine Wins
Joining your faithful Angry Planet crew this week are Rose Gottemoeller and Michael Ryan, both national security experts and both with a strong view that the war in Ukraine can still be won. And they'...
25 Jan 202456min
