What to Read About the History of Strategy this Summer
What big think books on strategy in history should you add to you shelf this summer? Our editor-in-chief, Ryan Evans, sat down with two authors of two of his favorite books this year. First, he spoke ...
15 Jul 201644min
The Long Game: How Will Obama's Foreign Policies Be Judged By History?
Is Barack Obama's foreign policy "failing at nearly every turn," as Speaker Paul Ryan and many other Republicans contend? Or has the president actually crafted a wiser, more effective approach to Amer...
21 Jun 201650min
A Tale of Two Speeches: U.S.-Russian Relations Through the Lens of Munich
We're going to try something a little different with this episode of the podcast, and I think you're going to like it. If you listened to our last episode, you know our focus was on the Munich Securit...
2 Mar 20161h 6min
Four Key Leaders in Munich on the State of the World
The Munich Security Conference brings together leaders from all around the world to discuss defense, foreign policy, and strategy - the bread and butter of War on the Rocks. It has been called the Dav...
16 Feb 201653min
Hacking Defense and Iraq's Controversial Security Groups
We have a two-parter for you in this episode. First, WOTR's Ryan Evans spoke with Steve Blank of Silicon Valley fame about his new course, "Hacking Defense." The class just launched at Stanford, but S...
8 Feb 201637min
Journalism, the Military, and America's Wars
The relationship between journalists and the U.S. military is simultaneously intimate and distant. In the last several decades and the last two in particular, many things have changed in the way that...
25 Jan 20161h 2min
The Obama Administration and the Middle East: An Insider's View
WOTR's Ryan Evans sat down with Colin Kahl, the National Security Advisor to Vice Present Joe Biden, to talk about the mess of the Middle East and what the Obama administration is doing about it. From...
12 Jan 20161h 3min
Fighting Russia in Europe and a Dose of Military Fiction
We are trying something a little new with our podcast series. Segments! And music! In the first segment of our new podcast, Ryan Evans sits down with Claude Berube to talk about his new novel, Syren's...
17 Des 201544min
