Podcast Episodes

Tusk Muses About France's Force De Frappe

Donald Tusk — not the indulgent follow up to the perfect Fleetwood Mac Album Rumours — mused recently about the future of deterrence in Europe. The discussion reminds of the challenges of extended de…

Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago

The Oreshnik IRBM

Russia launched an experimental, offensive missile into Ukraine, aimed at the PA Pivdenmash (former Yuzhmash) factory. This is a new world of missile combat, as this looks to be the first use of an I…

Published on 11 months, 3 weeks ago

Fred Kaplan and A Capital Calamity

The legendary Fred Kaplan joins Jeffrey to talk about his brand new novel, A Capital Calamity. 

Fred and Jeffrey talk through the Fred's experiences in nuclear strategy and the influences on his new …

Published on 1 year ago

The Big Honking Hyunmoo-V

An absolutely massive mobile ballistic missile was paraded in North....

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South Korea. Force of habit. 

Decker joins Jeffrey to talk about the absolute unit that the ROK just showed…

Published on 1 year ago

A Chinese ICBM Test in the Pacific

China tested an ICBM deep into the Pacific Ocean, instead of short-shooting it into PRC deserts. 

Decker Eveleth joins Jeffrey to talk about why this is a fascinating change in behavior for the PLA R…

Published on 1 year ago

Iran's October Missile Raid

Iran just launched what may be the largest single missile raid in history, and Israel claims no Israeli deaths.

While we're still very early in the news cycle, Jeffrey and Aaron start picking apart t…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

Busting the Burevestnik

Friend of the Pod Decker Eveleth found the Burevestnik deployment site, it seems!

Decker, of the CNA Corporation, has tracked down what appears to be the deployment site of the 9M730 Burevestnik, ak…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

TYPHON, FATHER OF MONSTERS

Jeffrey and his team have been OSINT'ing the heck out of the deployment of the Typhon Strategic Mid-Range Fires (SMRF) ((Typhon Smurf?)) to the Philippines, and tracked down the airport and deploymen…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Russian Entanglement

Tom Schelling described escalation as a "curved slope" where you won't be able to predict when the final drop occurs, and Ukraine targeting an early warning radar in Russia certainly is at least a fe…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Iran and Israel's Missile War

We have data! Jeffrey and Aaron walk through the new primary source data to figure out if either Iran's missile raid or Israeli's missile defense efforts were effective. This appears to be the first …

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago