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Ep 147: Frank Ledwidge on War in Space Sep 27, 2024

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Frank Ledwidge, Senior Fellow in Air Power and International Security at the Royal Air Force College and author of Aerial Warfare: The Battle for the Skies, joins the show to talk about warfare’s next frontier, space.

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• 01:40 Introduction

• 03:24 Thinking about space

• 09:09 More than a conduit

• 14:15 ASAT

• 19:55 Space domain awareness

• 26:20 Directed energy and nuclear weapons

• 31:16 Congested/competitive/contested

• 39:44 36,000 earths

• 42:15 Commercial incentives

• 45:05 Who has the advantage?

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Ep 146: Eric Edelman and Thomas Mahnken on America’s Defense Strategy Crisis Sep 24, 2024

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Eric Edelman and Thomas Mahnken of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments join the show to talk about what our defense establishment has gotten right, and wrong, in planning for the next war.

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• 02:10 Introduction

• 02:43 National Defense Strategy

• 06:58 Continuity between administrations

• 08:55 Multiple theater force construct

• 17:31 “A flawed net assessment”

• 28:30 An imbalance of power

• 34:46 Favoring the defense

• 38:42 Resources and cost

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Ep 145: Christopher Lynch on Machiavelli at War Sep 20, 2024

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Christopher Lynch, Professor of Political Science at Missouri State University and author of Machiavelli on War, joins the show to talk about renaissance warfare and Niccolò Machiavelli.

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• 01:20 Introduction

• 01:56 Machiavelli’s world

• 03:52 French invasion

• 07:08 Republicanism

• 13:42 Mercenary armies

• 22:50 Time in office

• 27:30 Battle

• 33:17 Resurrecting Rome and Greece

• 38:00 Catastrophic endings

• 41:31 Exile and writings

• 45:54 Good guy or bad guy?

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Ep 144: Mark Montgomery on Defending Taiwan (Boiling Moat #2) Sep 17, 2024

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Mark Montgomery, senior director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at FDD and contributor to The Boiling Moat: Urgent Steps to Defend Taiwan, joins the show to talk about Taiwan, tensions in the South China Sea, and more.

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• 01:27 Introduction

• 02:00 Why the Navy?

• 04:05 PACOM

• 06:53 Working with Senator McCain

• 10:51 Resource prioritization

• 15:19 Shortsighted decisions

• 19:56 Sink China’s Navy

• 25:30 Is Taiwan ready?

• 30:35 Imitate Estonia

• 33:31 Sensor complexes

• 37:26 Missile defense

• 43:30 Nuclear escalation

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Ep 143: Sabin Howard on WWI, Art, and Honoring Veterans Sep 13, 2024

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Sabin Howard, sculptor of A Soldier’s Journey, the central feature of the new World War I Memorial in Washington, DC, joins the show to talk about his work and the art of memorializing war and honoring veterans.

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• 01:50 Introduction

• 02:07 Becoming an artist

• 07:03 Spiritually classical

• 10:04 WWI

• 14:24 Getting it right

• 18:35 Daughter and father

• 21:37 The ordeal

• 25:00 The charging man

• 28:18 Modern methods

• 33:52 Aftermath

• 41:11 Return

• 51:00 Excite and engage

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Ep 142: Andrew Roberts Debunks Darryl Cooper on Winston Churchill Sep 10, 2024

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Andrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny, joins the show to give his thoughts on Tucker Carlson’s controversial guest Darryl Cooper.

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• 01:25 Introduction

• 02:34 Churchill the villain

• 05:20 Pat Buchanan

• 08:57 Dragging America into war

• 14:50 Barbarossa

• 20:06 “Mr. Cooper simply can’t have read Mein Kampf…”

• 21:37 Terror bombings

• 24:19 Dog whistles

• 26:11 Founding mythology

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Ep 141: Matt Pottinger on the Defense of Taiwan (Boiling Moat #1) Sep 03, 2024

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Matt Pottinger, distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, Chairman of FDD’s China Program, and author of The Boiling Moat: Urgent Steps to Defend Taiwan, joins the show to talk about how a war over Taiwan might start and how it may be prevented.

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• 01:13 Introduction

• 03:11 The Boiling Moat

• 04:54 Is Xi serious?

• 11:35 How to deter China

• 17:40 Out with the old, in with the new

• 24:30 Mapping the scenarios

• 30:14 No such thing as an accidental war

• 35:44 A cognitive trap

• 39:22 Left with no choice

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Ep 140: Roger Wicker on Defense Spending and Peace through Strength Aug 27, 2024

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Senator Roger Wicker of Mississippi, ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, joins the show to discuss his plan to spend five percent of America’s GDP on defense. Click the link to read more Peace through Strength: A Generational Investment in the U.S. Military

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• 01:31 Introduction

• 01:40 Service years

• 04:39 3% vs 5%

• 9:00 Peace through Strength

• 12:50 More money, more problems?

• 16:40 “Let’s get some more shipyards…”

• 19:37 Modernizing the nuclear arsenal

• 23:14 Force Design 2030

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Ep 139: Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr. on CENTCOM Aug 20, 2024

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General Kenneth F. McKenzie, USMC, retired as the fourteenth commander of U.S. Central Command in 2022 and is the author of The Melting Point: High Command and War in the 21st Century (https://a.co/d/a2RmIDK). He joins the show to talk about the strategic significance of the Middle East.

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• 01:16 Introduction

• 01:38 The Citadel

• 04:15 The humanities

• 10:00 Central Command

• 13:43 Thinking globally

• 17:53 Iran pushes back

• 23:05 Pursuing peace

• 26:15 Afghanistan

• 32:01 Collapse

• 37:58 A regional war

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Ep 138: Joshua S. Treviño on the Southern Border Crisis Aug 13, 2024

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Joshua S. Treviño, Chief of Intelligence and Research and the Director for Texas Identity at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, joins the show to talk about the crisis on the U.S. southern border.

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• 01:28 Introduction

• 02:03 “The border itself is insecure…”

• 06:06 Immigration is not the issue

• 08:58 Texas remembers

• 21:44 The Mexican side

• 31:34 WWI in Mexico

• 32:25 PRC and cartels

• 39:24 DoD and the border

• 44:01 “A sincere security partner…”

• 46:03 The Caroline affair