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
Ash Carter: The Interview
How will the U.S. military stay competitive? This is about far more than platforms, bombs, and guns. It is fundamentally about people. And with archaic personnel systems plaguing the armed forces and ...
19 Nov 201519min
The Vatican's Cloak-and-Dagger War Against Hitler
In histories of the Second World War, the Vatican has not fared well. Pope Pius XII has been condemned as "Hitler's Pope" and the Church castigated for not doing enough to avert war and save the victi...
2 Nov 201527min
Around the World: Episode 2
What's going on around the world? For our latest podcast, WOTR editor-in-chief Ryan Evans was joined by a great group to talk about Russia and its intervention in Syria, the Middle East more broadly, ...
13 Okt 201557min
Navigating the Islamic State Challenge
Will McCants of the Brookings Institution and David Ignatius of The Washington Post sat down with Ryan Evans to chat about the topic of Will's new book, ISIS Apocalypse: The History, Strategy, and Doo...
24 Sep 201548min
