Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHow WWII's Warlords Approached Strategy
Eric and Eliot welcome back Phillips Payson O'Brien to Shield of the Republic. Phil is the author of The Strategists: Churchill, Stalin, Roosevelt, M…
1 year, 10 months ago
How John Adams Established Enduring American Customs
Eric and Eliot provide their thumbnail review of the Trump-Harris debate and then welcome their special guest Lindsay Chervinsky, the Executive Direc…
1 year, 10 months ago
Why We Should Be Worried About Iranian Nukes
Eric and Eliot pay homage to Daily Telegraph journalist and podcaster David Knowles who was the driving force behind the podcast, Ukraine: The Latest…
1 year, 10 months ago
What Would Kamala's Foreign Policy Look Like?
Eric welcomes back Eliot from his trip to the High North in Svalbard, Norway where he was attending a workshop on Nordic-Baltic views on European sec…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Men Who Made a Century
Eric welcomes back Michael Mandelbaum, author and Christian A. Herter Professor Emeritus of American Foreign Policy at Johns Hopkins University Schoo…
1 year, 10 months ago
The Lessons of '68
Eric and Eliot host historian Luke Nichter in a special convention episode that looks back at the last time the Democrats hosted a national conventio…
1 year, 11 months ago
How to Kill a Democracy
Eric welcomes historian Timothy Ryback, the Co-Founder and Director of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation in the Hague. He has b…
1 year, 11 months ago
Hostages, Assassinations, and the Future of National Defense
Eric and Eliot discuss the multinational hostage return deal with Russia and talk about what it reveals about the Russia and the Putin regime, the di…
1 year, 11 months ago
Paul Nitze: National Security's Forgotten Man
Eric and Eliot host James Graham Wilson, an historian in the Department of State's Historian's Office to discuss his new book America's Cold Warrior:…
1 year, 11 months ago
Is Trump 2.0 a Guaranteed Foreign Policy Disaster?
Eric and Eliot debate the latter's Atlantic article arguing that a second Trump term might not be that catastrophic on foreign policy. They discuss w…
2 years ago