What a War Game Tells Us About Taiwan
It’s only human to play games. Some might argue it’s in the DNA. Games are part of how we learn, and can be the best way to teach or solve a problem. But some games are more serious than others. A gam...
23 Jan 202341min
The Long Weird History of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle
The Bradley Fighting Vehicle is on its way to Ukraine. Fifty of them, to be precise. This armored personnel carrier on tracks is not a tank. Don’t call it a tank. Once maligned as a boondoggle that re...
16 Jan 202336min
Israel's New Coalition from Hell
Benjamin Netanyahu is back and he's brought a right-wing coalition like nothing Israel has seen.Dan Perry knows the game and all the players and and he joins Angry Planet to talk about what might be t...
9 Jan 202335min
The Wagner Group Gives Putin Implausible Deniability
The shine has come off Russia’s regular armed forces. We’ve all seen the pictures in Ukraine of burned out vehicles and crashed drones, everything already starting to rust. Casualties for the Russian ...
19 Dec 202236min
The Precarious Nature of Being Jewish
Or: Why Jason has a Velcro mezuzah.An episode about Kanye West and violent family histories.Angry Planet has a substack! Join the Information War to get weekly insights into our angry planet and hear ...
12 Dec 202253min
Talking Russia with the CIA's Former Eurasian Bureau Chief
We’ve talked a lot on this program about electronic intelligence—the amazing stuff you can do with satellites, user generated content and sophisticated software.Nice.But we’ve left out all the men and...
5 Dec 202242min
The History of 'Putin's Wars'
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s reign has been defined by constant conflict. From Chechnya to Ukraine and many other wars in between, Putin’s Russia has constantly been pushing at its borders and s...
25 Nov 20221h
ICYMI: A Timothy Snyder Double Feature
We’re running our Thanksgiving break episode a week early. We’ll be back next week to talk with Mark Galeotti about Russia, Kherson, and the missiles that just hit Poland.This week, we’re going far ba...
17 Nov 202259min
