Training the Military for the Next War
How should the U.S. military prepare for the conflicts of the future? Military threats in the cyber, digital, and information domains present new training challenges. Synthetic training" seeks to addr...
13 Sep 201843min
A Chat with the Chief: Gen. David Goldfein on the People and Future of the U.S. Air Force
In this episode, Ryan sat down with Gen. David Goldfein, the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force. We had an in-depth, candid conversation about his service's personnel challenges, the selection and e...
29 Aug 201856min
The 100th Episode: Is a Major War Coming?
The War on the Rocks podcast celebrates its 100th episode with a blockbuster group of close friends of the site. The entire episode is an attempt to answer a straightforward, but devilishly complex qu...
31 Jul 20181h 2min
A Soldier Showing Us the Hidden Face of War
While on a recent visit to Copenhagen, Ryan sat down with his old friend Martin Tamm Anderson. Martin, who recently left the Danish Army, met Ryan in Helmand Province years ago. In the years since, Ma...
19 Jul 201820min
A Conversation With Clint Watts on Influence and Information in the Social Media Era
How has our understanding of Russian influence operations evolved since the 2016 election? Just a few days before Trump was elected president, Clint Watts, Andrew Weisburd, and J.M. Berger sounded the...
19 Jun 201843min
The Muslim Brotherhood's Convoluted Relationship with the West
Martyn Frampton (@FramptonM) of Queen Mary University, is one of the most talented historians of his generation. He recently sat down with Ryan in Washington to speak about his new book, The Muslim Br...
14 Jun 201836min
Counterterrorism With Partner Countries: Promise or Peril?
Partner cooperation is crucial when it comes to fighting terrorism, but it's also complex. Stephen Tankel, assistant professor at American University -- most importantly -- a senior editor here at War...
7 Jun 201833min
The Future of Force
Recently, two enterprising young scholars spearheaded a major conference that ended up being sponsored and hosted by CSIS and the Kissinger Center at SAIS. The topic was the future of force and it wil...
4 Jun 201833min
