The Difference Between Obedience and Deference
Our guest this week is Pauline Kaurin. Kaurin is the Stockdale Chair in Professional Military Ethics at the US Naval War College and the author of the new book On Obedience: Contrasting Philosophies f...
18 Jun 20201h 3min
Why These Protests Are Different Than 1968
Our guest today is Rick Perlstein. Perlstein is a historian and author best known for Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America. He’s also written the forthcoming Reaganland: Am...
5 Jun 202059min
The Rise of The Teenage Terrorist
The neo-Nazi movement can’t keep it together. After a series of high profile outings, murders, conspiracy charges, and other assorted run-ins with authorities, the leadership of the Neo-Nazi movement ...
29 Mai 202052min
How (Not) To Plan Coup in Venezuela
Bellingcat’s Giancarlo Fiorella is here to walk us through what may go down in history as the dumbest attempted coup of all time. On May 3, American mercenaries and Venezuelan exiles attempted to ente...
18 Mai 202052min
The Ecoterrorists Acting in "Feral Defense of Wild Nature"
Ecoterrorism isn’t a word you hear a lot these days and it’s usually associated with groups like Greenpeace. That might be changing. In 2011, a biotechnology researcher was shot and killed in Mexico. ...
9 Mai 20201h 5min
Stranded in Iraq During a Pandemic
This week on War College, producer Kevin Knodell is back in the states after an extended stay in Iraq. He walks us through his journey and the impact of the pandemic on the Middle East.You can listen ...
30 Apr 202059min
What Gold Plated AK-47s Tell Us About War
As I keep saying, war has changed. It’s the recent theme of War College. And it’s not just conflict, but the way people cover conflict. Increasingly, journalists and researchers are using open source ...
13 Apr 202055min
Turkey Is Turning Off Syria's Water During a Pandemic
War is about logistics. “An army marches on its stomach,” the idiom goes. Well, a populace can’t survive without water. One water station in Northeast Syria is the heart of a growing conflict between ...
28 Mar 202029min
