All Episodes

Why China will deliberately avoid giving the U.S. a Pearl Harbor moment | Dean Cheng

“I calculated how much you wasted”: confronting defense vendors | Lt. Gen. Tony Hale (Ret.)

Keith Phillips on How Cold War STEM Infrastructure Drove Faster Tech Adoption Than Doctrine

Marina Nitze on why emotional arguments don't move bureaucracies, and what actually does

Retired BG Ed Barker on Underwriting Risk So Acquisition Teams Will Move

Insight Partners’ Nick Sinai on People Flow, Procurement, and What Real Change Requires

TurbineOne’s Court Vanzant on Education, Discomfort, & Veteran Paths To Defense Entrepreneurship

TurbineOne's Daniel Hebb on MOSA Compliance Failures & Tactical Workarounds

TurbineOne's Brandi Evans on Empowering PMs to Act Decisively and Course-Correct

Int’l Spy Museum's Chris Costa on Intel Partnerships as Diplomatic Safe Space

Trevor Hough on Counterterrorism's Away Game Problem

Ret. RADM Terry Kraft on Aircraft Carriers Adapting to Future War

Ret. Vice Admiral Bob Sharp on Why Intelligence Without Planning is Just Trivia

CSET’s Emelia Probasco on How Military Risk Calculus Changes Under Operational Pressure

Ret. Lt. Gen. Bob Ashley on the Commander-Analyst Relationship

Ret. General Mike Minihan on Why Pacific Theater Removes Permissive Environment Assumptions

Mile37's Heather Ichord on Moving Defense Tech Beyond Dual-Use Buzzwords

Apex's Alexis Lasselle Ross on Why Defense Acquisition Feels Broken

Lt. Gen. (ret.) Mike Dana on AI Vulnerability Maps for Contested Environments

Rear Adm. (ret) Fred Pyle on Industrial Base Shift from Minimum to Maximum Rate

Ret. Major General Daniel “D-Day” Simpson on Preparing Warfighters for AI Integration

Military Intel Veterans on Why Process-Obsessed Military Culture Blocks Innovation

TurbineOne’s Chané Jackson on How Human-Machine Teaming Reduces Cognitive Load in Combat