The Most Important Middle Eastern Country You’ve Never Heard Of
Yemen. Saudi Arabia. Iran. Syria. These are the countries that cross most of our minds when we think of the Middle East, but there’s an important actor in the region that we almost never hear about--O...
6 Feb 201826min
How Modern China Got That Way
Xi Jinping’s China tends to look at itself as a historical victim, an underdog fighting to roll back indignities of the past and prove its strength. Author and journalist Paul French has been chronicl...
29 Jan 201837min
DARPA Is the Disney of the Defense Department
Without America’s Defense Advanced Research Project Agency there would be no internet, no GPS, no M16, and no Agent Orange. The mysterious group of scientists and soldiers created much of today’s mili...
22 Jan 201841min
Prestige Weapons Systems are Busting the Pentagon’s Budget
The Pentagon always wants more money and it usually gets its way. Between sequestration and the War on Terror, America’s military often feels like it’s stretched thin. The Navy says it needs more sail...
16 Jan 201838min
Will the B-21 Bomber Break the Mold, or the Budget?
It’s been a while since the Air Force built a new bomber. In fact, it’s still flying an aircraft that’s 60 years old, the B-52. The more recent B-1 and B-2 bombers were beset by problems during their ...
8 Jan 201829min
The Military Reality Behind Star Wars
It's a blast from the past this week and Jason and Matthew get ready for 2018. Here's what we said back then:From Star Wars to Battlestar Galactica, few battlefields are as fought over in pop-culture ...
2 Jan 201834min
ICYMI: This Is How Republic's Fall
ICYMI: This holiday week we're re-running the first episode of the new era! We'll be back after the new year.The Weimar Republic was doomed from the start. World War I left Germany in a precarious pos...
26 Dec 201726min
Optimism in America’s Forever War
Marty Skovlund Jr. first went to Afghanistan as an Army Ranger. This year he returned as a journalist. His reports offer a sharp contrast to the main narrative about a place that’s been at war for dec...
18 Dec 201731min
