Surprising changes underway for Israel’s army
Israel’s defense forces are among the world’s elite. Their training methods are widely copied, actions taken by their soldiers and pilots are legendary. The Raid on Entebbe, the Six Day War, the 1981 ...
4 Feb 201630min
How hot will the Saudi-Iran conflict get?
Saudi Arabia executes a cleric who is a member of the Saudi Shi’ite minority. Iran’s government, which sees itself as the leader of the Shi’ite world, doesn’t work very hard to stop an attack on the S...
28 Jan 201625min
Oil's long good-bye and what comes next
Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, Russia has used natural gas as a weapon against Ukraine and Europe as a whole. Threatening to turn shut off the pipes as the weather turns cold is a pretty effec...
20 Jan 201626min
Why in the world is the 60-year-old B-52 bomber still flying?
North Korea sets off a nuclear bomb and how does the U.S. respond? The Pentagon sends a 65-year-old airplane to buzz Korean airspace. It wouldn’t make a lot of sense if the warplane wasn’t the B-52 bo...
12 Jan 201626min
In North Korea, kids learn to love the bomb - and Minnie Mouse
North Korea is the most mysterious and oppressive regime on earth. Few journalists penetrate Pyongyang and fewer still stay long enough to understand the country and its people. Jean Lee is one of tho...
8 Jan 201630min
The women warriors giving ISIS nightmares
Islamic State has many enemies, both around the world and in the Middle East. But there’s one group of fighters that the men of Islamic State fear more than others because, rumors say, to be killed by...
17 Dec 201528min
What will cause the next Holocaust?
The conditions necessary to allow genocide – to provide one group the psychological “permission” to kill another en masse – come together all too often, in Europe during World War II, in Rwanda, in Bo...
9 Dec 201532min
'Nothing is real, anything is possible': How Putin's propaganda machine works
The media in Russia is lively, often entertaining and largely state controlled. Still, an illusion of freedom remains key for the Kremlin to maintain its grasp over a country that spans 11 time zones....
1 Dec 201529min
