Rear Admiral has had Enough of Trump and MAGA

Her husband deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan with the Marines and came home with PTSD and a TBI. She became his caregiver, then became a lawyer who helps veterans get free legal help. Now Callie Barr...

19 Sep 16min

Ken Harbaugh traces the line from Trump family drone deals, defense stock trades, and oil market manipulation back to General Smedley Butler's 1935 book War Is a Racket, which warned that war too ofte...

18 Sep 21min

Ken Harbaugh breaks down how Trump's bungled Iran war has left both the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab-el-Mandeb under threat, shut down a critical Saudi pipeline, and somehow left Ukraine taking the bl...

17 Sep 21min

On this episode of Meidas Defense, host Joe Plenzler sits down with The Atlantic’s Graeme Wood to examine what we’ve learned about Al-Qaeda 25 years after 9/11. They discuss Osama bin Laden’s real str...

16 Sep 20min

Ken Harbaugh sits down with Dr. Robert P. Jones, founder and president of PRRI and author of the new book Backslide, to examine how white evangelical Christianity has fused itself to Trump-era politic...

15 Sep 19min

Twenty-five years after 9/11, the generation that fought the Global War on Terror produced two decades of hard-won lessons about how America goes to war; on authorities, on targeting, on what happens ...

12 Sep 13min

Ken Harbaugh talks with war correspondent and bestselling author Sebastian Junger, fresh off a trip to Kyiv where he was the sole American honored at Ukraine's Independence Day celebration. They dig i...

10 Sep 17min

Meidas Defense host Joe Plenzler sits down with New York Times national security reporter Greg Jaffe for a sobering look at the limits of American military power and the growing culture of fear inside...

9 Sep 17min