Podcast Episodes

Inside a secret Pentagon effort to bring AI to the battlefield

Project Maven, a secretive decade-long Pentagon campaign to deliver the U.S. into an age of AI warfare, is the subject of a new book by Bloomberg rep…

12 hours ago

Iran latest: View from the border / Trump strong-arms allies

President Trump has demanded, begged and threatened U.S. allies to join the war in Iran.

But those allies aren’t exactly leaping in to help. Can Trump…

4 days, 10 hours ago

U.S. vs. Israel on endgame / Battlefield tech / Wartime censorship

President Trump says there’s practically nothing left to target in Iran. Is the White House looking for an off ramp?

Host Mary Louise Kelly is joined …

1 week, 4 days ago

Is Iran another Iraq?

Poor planning, overly ambitious goals, not thinking through the aftermath. These are the parallels that Richard Haass sees between the 2003 U.S. inva…

2 weeks ago

Iran’s fight for survival / The widening war / Trump’s nebulous goals

The U.S.-Israeli war with Iran is spilling out across the region. What are the goals? And how does it end?

Host Mary Louise Kelly talks with Internati…

2 weeks, 4 days ago

Iran's supreme leader is killed. What happens now?

President Trump says Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead. 

This comes after Israel and the United States launched missile attacks ac…

3 weeks, 2 days ago

U.S. and Israel strike Iran. Here's what we know

Overnight, the United States and Israel launched military strikes against Iran.

The strikes targeted Iran’s top leaders, Supreme Leader Khamanei and P…

3 weeks, 2 days ago

Drone warfare / Iran on the brink? / Ukraine four years on

The seas of the Middle East are bristling with American warships and airpower trained on Iran. What does President Trump have in mind for them?

Host M…

3 weeks, 4 days ago

China: Purging generals and testing nukes? / Trump, Iran and Ukraine

Did China conduct secret nuclear tests? The United States thinks so. 


Host Mary Louise Kelly speaks with NPR Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman and NPR…

1 month ago

Europe's post-Munich exhale / Machado on gifting Nobel to Trump

If you heard our show last week you know we were at the Munich Security Conference – a gathering in Germany where world leaders, security experts and…

1 month ago