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476 episodes transcribedWar is a bloody business and few people know this better than the medics, physician assistants, and assorted battlefield doctors. Since Vietnam, the U...
What does the United States get out of having a human spaceflight program? For that matter, what do Russia and China get out of having one? Especially...
When France fell less than two months after Germany invaded in the spring of 1940, conspiracy theories grew to explain the loss. One of the most commo...
According to Presidents John Kennedy and Ronald Reagan, the United States is a shining “city upon a hill." It’s a beacon of democracy in a dark world...
Everything old is new again, including living with the constant threat of nuclear annihilation. North Korea is a nuclear power. The President of the U...
Mark Galeotti joins us for War College’s Russian election special. The winner, Vladimir Putin, was never in doubt, but what’s the sham election all ab...
From the Silver Legion to the Aryan Nation, the U.S. has had its share of fascist organizations but its never had anything quite like Atomwaffen Divis...
In the minds of many Russians, the Cold War never ended. When the Soviet Union collapsed, many spies never came in from the cold and the intricate gam...
This week we've got a blast from the past. Here's what we said back then:This week Thomas Nichols helps us understand America’s current nuclear strate...
Iran is at war beyond its borders in Syria, Afghanistan, and other places, too. It’s a bit weird to hear it, but our guest, Amir Handjani, explains th...
NATO’s second largest army has invaded Syria. Turkey is conducting military operations in Afrin—a Kurdish city on Syria’s north western border. Russia...
Yemen. Saudi Arabia. Iran. Syria. These are the countries that cross most of our minds when we think of the Middle East, but there’s an important acto...
Xi Jinping’s China tends to look at itself as a historical victim, an underdog fighting to roll back indignities of the past and prove its strength. A...
Without America’s Defense Advanced Research Project Agency there would be no internet, no GPS, no M16, and no Agent Orange. The mysterious group of sc...
The Pentagon always wants more money and it usually gets its way. Between sequestration and the War on Terror, America’s military often feels like it’...
It’s been a while since the Air Force built a new bomber. In fact, it’s still flying an aircraft that’s 60 years old, the B-52. The more recent B-1 an...
It's a blast from the past this week and Jason and Matthew get ready for 2018. Here's what we said back then:From Star Wars to Battlestar Galactica, f...
ICYMI: This holiday week we're re-running the first episode of the new era! We'll be back after the new year.The Weimar Republic was doomed from the s...
Marty Skovlund Jr. first went to Afghanistan as an Army Ranger. This year he returned as a journalist. His reports offer a sharp contrast to the main...
War. War has changed.Anyone can keep up to date with the latest conflict on Twitter. Facebook is a great place to watch the propaganda game of entire...
