Episodes (541)
Can Iran Take More Pain Than Us?
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Eliot's Return & Schrodinger's Strait
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Trump's Path of Destruction (w/ Mona Charen)
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The Cost of Boots on the Ground (w/ Mike Nelson)
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Trump Needs Approval for This War (w/ Michael O'Hanlon) | Shield of the Republic
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Iran and the Roots of Islamist Terror (w/ Jason Burke)
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How Does The Iran War End?
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Iran's Regional War Strategy is Failing (w/ Norman Roule)
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Trump's Iran Gamble
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China Is Ready For War. We Aren't. (w/ Seth Jones)
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On The Precipice of Illegal War (w/ Frank Dikötter)
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Arms Control is Dead
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The Crisis Facing Our Military (w/ Kori Schake)
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America's New Defense Strategy is Nonsense
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How Evil Regimes Cling to Power (w/ Stephen Kotkin)
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Don't Count on Trump Coming to the Rescue (w/ Michael Weiss)
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A Dangerous Start to 2026
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Trump's New War for Oil
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We Need to Secure Our Supply Chains (w/ Mike Froman)
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Double Taps and Drug Lord Pardons
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When Power Stops Caring About the Law
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The Pentagon's Confederate Cover-Up
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Can Taiwan Trust the United States? (w/ Michael Hunzeker)
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Why MAGA Loves Illiberalism (w/ Laura Field)
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America Can't Go It Alone
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Paranoia and Purges Are Consuming the Pentagon
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The Dark Forces Conspiring Against Democracy (w/ Bill Galston)
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How The Jews Fought Rome
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Alliances With Dictators Never Last (w/ Tim Bouverie)
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SPECIAL EPISODE: Trump Preaches Insanity to The General Officers
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The Hack Is Coming From Inside the House
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Russia is Openly Attacking NATO
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How Does Israel Adapt After Failure?
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The Man Who Enlarged NATO
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How Do You Fight in a City?
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Colombia's Challenging Path Forward
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Trump’s Amateur Diplomacy Tests U.S. Allies
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Putin's Growing Body Count
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What is Israel's Plan?
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The Unlikely Rise of MBS (w/ Karen Elliott House)
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The International Order is Dead
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Is Trump Losing Control of the Pentagon?
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Eric and Eliot's Strike Assessment
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EMERGENCY EPISODE: The Israel-Iran War
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What to Expect From the NATO Summit
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America's Original Protest Movement (w/ Rick Atkinson)
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What to Make of The Middle East
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The Return of Jackassery and Eliot's Travel Report
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How to Practice Productive Statecraft
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The Man in Kissinger's Shadow
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