America’s Low Yield Nukes and the New Atomic Scare
From the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty to, probably, New START, all the old treaties are failing. Nuclear weapons are back in the public consciousness in a big way and old Cold War ideas th...
14 Feb 202034min
The Fight Over 5G and Chinese Spies
There’s a battle raging for the future of the internet. No, it has nothing to do with net neutrality or broadband access. This is about 5G, the shadowy world of global intelligence agencies, and a tel...
3 Feb 202024min
What Iraq's Protestors Want and Why it Matters
Iraq. Since October of last year, a protest movement has taken hold of the country. After 16 years of conflict, Iraq is tired. Its people want political and economic reforms.America didn’t pay attenti...
24 Jan 202046min
American Troops Navigate Complicated Political Realities in Iraq
This week, producer Kevin Knodell walks us through his recent reporting in Iraq.https://coffeeordie.com/american-troops-iraq/You can listen to War College on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play or follow ou...
17 Jan 202024min
How to Down a Drone
Drones are everywhere. Military drones buzz war zones dropping missiles; surveillance drones hover above neighborhoods, looking for anything out of place; even now, commercial drones hide in holiday w...
8 Jan 202038min
The Afghanistan Papers and the Unwinnable Forever War
Last week the Washington Post published The Afghanistan Papers—a blockbuster piece of reporting that details every little thing about what’s gone wrong with the Afghanistan War. As the war grinds thro...
20 Dec 201937min
ICYMI - What Star Wars Can Teach the American Military
Luke Skywalker is a household name. Carl von Clausewitz not so much. Learning about the military—especially about strategy and tactics—is a jargon filled slog. War has a language all its own and for d...
13 Dec 201933min
How 3-D Printers Could Spread Weapons of Mass Destruction
We are living on the precipice of a manufacturing revolution. 3D Printing is more than just a hobby your weird rich friends use to make guns, it’s the dawn of a new process of prototype and creation. ...
6 Dec 201938min
