Podcast Episodes

Second Breakfast: Venezuela, Shutdowns, PE + Army, E.B. Sledge

Bryan, Eric, and Justin join the fun.

00:00 Venezuela

16:08 Shutdown Effects on Military Operations

34:45 The PE Army Takeover + Datacenters

46:32 Submarine Detection and Naval Strategy

48:44 Sledg…

Published on 3 weeks, 5 days ago

PLA Purges and How Xi Rules with Jon Czin

Jon Czin spent years as a top China analyst at the CIA, served as China Director on Biden’s National Security Council, and now works at the Brookings Institution. We discuss what Xi’s fourth-term mea…

Published on 3 weeks, 6 days ago

Second Breakfast: Gaza, SOUTHCOM, AI Nuke Analogies Stink, Generals Using AI (with M. Horowitz and L. Kahn!)

Guests today include Michael Horowitz (Penn now, in the Biden years was DAS for Force Development and Emerging Capabilities + Director of the Emerging Capabilities Policy Office) and Lauren Kahn (wor…

Published on 1 month ago

Tarun Chhabra on the Stakes of AI Competition

Tarun Chhabra is Head of National Security Policy at Anthropic, and previously served as the Deputy Assistant to the President and Coordinator for Technology and National Security on Biden’s NSC.

Tod…

Published on 1 month ago

Anduril's Christian Brose on the Dangers of Unseriousness

Chrisian Brose is the Chief Strategy Officer at Anduril Industries. He’s been at the forefront of the debate about how America needs to change in order to win a future war against a high-tech adversa…

Published on 1 month ago

EMERGENCY POD: China's Rare Earth Export Controls

Chris Miller (chip wars), Chris McGuire (10 year State Dpt vet, check out the past episode on the feed) and I discuss a big move by MOFCOM to squeeze Trump in advance of their APEC summit.

Outtro M…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

AI Hardware Net Assessment: Why Huawei Can't Beat Nvidia

Last week, Jensen Huang said that China is “nanoseconds behind” the US in chipmaking. Is he right? Today, Chris McGuire joins ChinaTalk for a US-China AI hardware net assessment. Chris spent a decade…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Second Breakfast: Putin's Drones, SecWar Patton, Wargaming, Finding Subs

Bryan Clark, a former submariner now with the Hudson Institute, joins the show!

Outtro speech: George C. Scott's rendition of Patton's speech

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Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

RAND's Jeff Alstott on How Facts Can Shape Tech Policymaking

At long last, Jeff Alstott, the fairy godfather of DC AI policy, joins the show. He’s the founding director for RAND’s center for technology and security policy, TASP, worked at NSC, NSF and IARPA, a…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Transistor Radio: Intel, Dylan Falls in Love, Nvidia Captures Dylan, Slop City (our dumbest show yet)

for better or worse, the first ep on chinatalk feed I had to put an explicit tag on...

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Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago