Rational Security: The “Pun Moll” Edition
This week, Alan, Quinta, and Scott were joined by their Brookings and Lawfare colleague Molly Reynolds to talk all things Congress in the week’s national security news, including:Shattering the Must-P...
4 Jun 20231h 16min
Lawfare Archive: Rosa Brooks on ‘How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything’
From October 1, 2016: At this week's Hoover Book Soiree, Rosa Brooks joined Benjamin Wittes to talk about her new book, “How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales from the Pe...
3 Jun 202353min
Ukraine Is Not Dead Yet
It is often said that “Russia is a country with an unpredictable past.” Such distortions of history can lead to trouble, as the world witnessed last year when Vladimir Putin justified his invasion of ...
2 Jun 202334min
Chatter: Information Ecology with Alicia Wanless
Alicia Wanless is one of the pioneers of the idea of information ecology, the notion that we should think about information and disinformation as part of a complex ecosystem, the management of which s...
1 Jun 202355min
The Wagner Group, Bakhmut, and a New Phase in the Ukraine War
The war in Ukraine is approaching a pivotal moment. Russia remains in control of the hotly contested city of Bakhmut. But the ruthlessly effective mercenary forces of the Wagner Group—the same group w...
1 Jun 202352min
Erdoğan Wins Reelection in Turkey
On Sunday, May 28, Turkey held a bitterly contested run-off election, with incumbent presidential candidate Recep Tayyip Erdoğan winning reelection against opposition candidate Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu. Law...
31 Mai 202347min
Tim Mak on The Counteroffensive
Tim Mak was an NPR reporter in Kyiv since the beginning of the full-scale invasion last year. He recently stepped down and started his own Substack from the Ukrainian capital, called The Counteroffens...
30 Mai 202349min
Lawfare Archive: Shaun Walker on Russia's Long Hangover
From January 20, 2018: This week on the Lawfare Podcast, the Guardian's Moscow correspondent Shaun Walker joined special guest host Alina Polyakova to discuss his new book "The Long Hangover: Putin's ...
29 Mai 202345min
