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Ron Dermer on Israel in a Changing Middle East
Episode 62
Ambassador Ron Dermer has been Israel’s ambassador to the United States since 2013 – not an uneventful period for Israel, America and the Middle East…
5 years, 7 months ago
The Kasparov Defense
Episode 61
Garry Kasparov is a former world chess champion, a former Russian dissident and democracy leader, and a current human rights activist. He’s founded a…
5 years, 7 months ago
The Failing State of Lebanon
Episode 60
Lebanon is a small country that has long been facing enormous perils. This week, its capital, Beirut, exploded – literally. An enormous, devastating…
5 years, 8 months ago
Pivoting Toward China
Episode 59
In 1972, Nixon went to China, where he met with Communist leader Mao Zedong.
Thanks to that bold diplomatic initiative, the United States and the Peo…
5 years, 9 months ago
Israel’s Border Lands
Episode 57
Israelis are now pondering a hugely consequential decision: Should they change the status of some of the territories under their control, drawing bor…
5 years, 10 months ago
War and Peace and Other Options in Afghanistan
Episode 56
In recent weeks, the pandemic – the global spread of a deadly virus that originated in China – has dominated the news media, and therefore most of th…
5 years, 10 months ago
National Security Council for Dummies ft. Richard Goldberg (part two)
Episode 55
Richard Goldberg just finished a year on the National Security Council (NSC) where he served as the Director for Countering Iranian Weapons of Mass D…
5 years, 11 months ago
Predators in the Global Jungle
Episode 54
David Kilcullen is an Australian-American soldier and scholar who served as a top advisor to the U.S. military in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
He also …
5 years, 11 months ago
Special Edition: The U.S. Army and National Security
Episode 53
To address an increasingly complex and challenging international security environment, the U.S. Army is undertaking a massive restructuring—the likes…
6 years ago
War and Peace, and Wars Between Wars
Season 1 Episode 52
In the past — at least in the past as we like to remember it — wars began with declarations and ended with surrenders or negotiated “peace agreements…
6 years ago