Getting the Navy Back to Ready Will Cost Tens of Billions
With just over 270 ships doing the work intended to be done by more than 350, the U.S. Navy is stretched thin enough for the seams to show. In order to keep enough ships at sea, training is getting sh...
13 Juni 201825min
When German Housewives Stood Up To Hitler
Berlin in 1943. Hitler has all but conquered Europe and millions of Jews have already died in the Holocaust. In the midst of this, a group of women gathered on Rose Street to demand action. They had l...
7 Juni 201830min
Confronting the Reality of War
Only 1 percent of all Americans serve in the military. Even fewer ever see combat. All of those who do are changed by the experience. This week Tony Russo shares some of the stories he’s gathered from...
29 Maj 201824min
Catching Up With Killer Robots
When the United States put a machine gun on top of what looked like a bomb-squad robot, it didn’t care much who it was aiming at. But on the whole, drones and other killer robots are pretty effective,...
22 Maj 201837min
Everything We Know About Fifth Generation Fighters
Why did the United States stop building the F-22, a fifth generation fighter the Air Force loves? Especially if the F-35 program is very much up in the air - pun intended - with each batch of fighters...
16 Maj 201836min
North Korea’s Long Game
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in have met. The Trump administration is on its way to talk denuclearization and the formal end of a war that’s lasted 65 years. Is ...
8 Maj 201849min
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...
1 Maj 201832min
The Life of a Special Operations Physician Assistant
War is a bloody business and few people know this better than the medics, physician assistants, and assorted battlefield doctors. Since Vietnam, the U.S. has gotten a lot better at saving the lives of...
24 Apr 201831min
