Trump's confidante on where he'll go next
With Maduro gone and Venezuela seemingly bending to Trump’s will, the world is now asking who will be next and where will it stop? General Jack Keane knows the President well and has his ear. In a wid...
7 Jan 24min
Why the west has one year to see off a polycrisis
In this New Year edition of The General and the Journalist, Tom and Patrick explore the idea of a looming 'polycrisis', a convergence of geopolitical, economic and technological shocks that could peak...
1 Jan 34min
Q&A: From rogue Nato states to British fighting power, your biggest questions answered
For their Christmas special, Tom and Patrick turn the entire show over to you. They answer as many listener questions as possible that have landed in the General & Journalist inbox since May. Among th...
25 Dec 202538min
Is the UK finally stepping up to the Russia threat?
This week, we heard two strikingly blunt speeches from the UK’s most senior defence and intelligence chiefs, both aimed at recalibrating how Britain thinks about the threat from Russia. The Chief of t...
18 Dec 202526min
How do you prepare a continent for war?
Europe is rearming at a pace not seen in decades, from the Baltics to France, where President Macron has called for a new era of “mobilisation,” short of conscription but aimed at readying the nation ...
11 Dec 202538min
On the frontline of Nato's cyber war with Russia
Cyber warfare is played out in the shadows, never declared and never attributed. But, as the General in charge of Nato's cyber operations tells Tom, the west is fighting what amounts to a war on a dai...
4 Dec 202526min
What's Trump really doing in Venezuela?
The largest deployment of US naval assets since the Cold War has been sent steaming across the Atlantic to the Venezuelan coast. The CIA has reportedly been given the green light to operate inside the...
27 Nov 202554min
BONUS: Is peace coming to Ukraine?
The former chief of MI6, Sir Alex Younger, tells Tom that this is the moment Europe needs to “regain its relationship with hard power”, having been caught on the back foot by an American peace plan wi...
25 Nov 202511min
