Ep 166: Rachel Kousser on Alexander the Great
Rachel Kousser, professor of Classics and Art History at the City University of New York and author of Alexander at the End of the World, joins the show to talk about the violent, brilliant, complex c...
20 Dec 202445min
Ep 165: Shyam Sankar on a Defense Reformation
Shyam Sankar, Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Palantir Technologies, joins the show to explain the broken Defense Department acquisition process and how he believes it can be ...
17 Dec 202439min
Ep 164: Mark Dubowitz on Syria’s Collapse
Mark Dubowitz, chief executive officer of Foundation for Defense of Democracies, joins the show to break down the collapse of the Assad regime and the implications for Israel, Turkey, and Iran. ▪️ Tim...
11 Dec 202451min
Ep 163: School of War Goes to Israel—Lessons from a Savage Year
Host Aaron MacLean recently embedded with the Israeli Defense Forces and saw firsthand Israel’s war with Iranian proxy groups Hezbollah and Hamas. What lessons can Americans learn from Israel’s year o...
10 Dec 20241h 17min
Ep 162: Michael Leggiere on Military History on Campus
Michael Leggiere, Professor of Humanities at the University of Florida and editor of War Studies Journal 1, joins the show to discuss the sad state of military history in higher education. ▪️ Times ...
6 Dec 202429min
Ep 161: Mackenzie Eaglen on China’s Military Spending and Ours
Mackenzie Eaglen, senior fellow at AEI and author of Keeping Up with the Pacing Threat: Unveiling the True Size of Beijing’s Military Spending, joins the show to discuss the dire situation the U.S. de...
3 Dec 202449min
Ep 160: Thomas Barfield on Empire and Imperial Strategies Today
Thomas Barfield, Professor and Chairman of the Anthropology Department at Boston University and author of Shadow Empires: An Alternative Imperial History, joins the show to discuss empire. ▪️ Times ...
26 Nov 202458min
Ep 159: Rebeccah Heinrichs on the Morality of Nuclear Weapons
Rebeccah Heinrichs, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and author of Duty to Deter: American Nuclear Deterrence and the Just War Doctrine, joins the show to make the moral argument for why the Unit...
19 Nov 202444min
