
Ep 70: Will Scharf on China’s Fentanyl War on America
Will Scharf, former federal prosecutor and candidate for Missouri Attorney General, joins the show to talk about how the Chinese Communist Party uses fentanyl as part of a broader strategy to pressure...
25 Apr 202345min

Ep 69: John Lisle on the OSS and "Dirty Tricks"
John Lisle, a historian of science and the American intelligence community and author of The Dirty Tricks Department, joins the show to talk about the World War Two-era Office of Strategic Services an...
18 Apr 202342min

Ep 68: Peter H. Wilson on the Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples
Peter H. Wilson, Chichele Professor of the History of War at All Souls, Oxford, and author of Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples since 1500, joins the show to talk about...
11 Apr 202342min

Ep 67: Stephen J. Hadley on George W. Bush’s Foreign Policy
Stephen J. Hadley, National Security Advisor to President George W. Bush and lead editor of Hand-Off: The Foreign Policy George W. Bush Passed to Barack Obama, joins the show to talk about the lasting...
4 Apr 202351min

Ep 66: Michael E. O’Hanlon on Military History and Modern Strategy
Michael E. O’Hanlon, senior fellow and director of research in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution and author of Military History for the Modern Strategist: America’s Major Wars Since 1861, jo...
28 Mars 202348min

Ep 65: John Hosler on Jerusalem
John Hosler, Professor of Military History at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and author of Jerusalem Falls: Seven Centuries of War and Peace, joins the show to talk about the wars, an...
21 Mars 202351min

Ep 64: Dan Blumenthal and Fred Kagan on China’s Three Strategies for Taiwan
Dan Blumenthal and Fred Kagan of the American Enterprise Institute join the show to talk about the three strategies that China can use to seize control of Taiwan. ▪️ Times • 01:40 China’s three appr...
14 Mars 202355min

Ep 63: Steve Kemper on Interwar Japan
Steve Kemper, author most recently of Our Man in Tokyo: An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor, joins the show to talk about the political chaos in Tokyo in the years leading up to W...
28 Feb 202346min






















