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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…
4 months, 1 week ago
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…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
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…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
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 …
5 months ago
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,” shor…
5 months, 1 week ago
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, …
5 months, 2 weeks ago
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 reported…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
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 c…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Inside the Pentagon's nuclear war game
Journalist Annie Jacobsen joins Tom to discuss her bestselling and harrowing book Nuclear War: A Scenario, which maps out in minute-by-minute detail …
6 months ago
The Generals vs The Lawyers
It's warfare or lawfare, but it can't be both. Patrick and Tom chat with General Sir Nick Parker, Patrick's friend and mentor of old, to talk about a…
6 months, 1 week ago