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FDD's Foreign Podicy — 314 episodes
Elise Stefanik and the “Poisoned Ivies”
Stakes in the Straits and Chips on the Table
The Fog of Ceasefire
From Budapest to Beirut to Tehran: Perspectives from Across the Pond
The New Sultanate
Breaking China
Back from the Front
Breaking Down The Islamic Republic
The Arab Case for Israel
The War Against Iran’s Jihadis: What’s Xi Got to Do With It?
Wars and Rumors of War
Into Year 5: Strategy for Ukraine's Future
Allies, Adversaries, and the Axis
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Houthis But Were Afraid to Ask
The National Defense Strategy and the Threats That Matter Most
Wikipedia Wars
Persian Puzzles
Southern Exposure: Trump’s Arrest of Maduro Brings Opportunities and Dangers
Recognizing Somaliland
The War Against Christians (With Chinese Characteristics)
Why Chinese Economic Statecraft is a U.S. National Security Threat
Americans Want U.S. Strength and Statesmanship
The Widening Gulf Between Iran and the Gulf
Africa 2025: Things Fall Apart
DJT and the VIP (Very Important Prince)
Back to Iraq
No Country for Old Mullahs
Trump’s Orient Express
Mariam Wahba on the Muslim Brotherhood’s Media Empire
Three Voices From the Front Lines in Ukraine
On the Battlegrounds in Gaza and Ukraine with H.R. McMaster
A Second American Century Requires Energy Dominance
The Courtship of Ahmad al-Sharaa
Avoiding Strategic Insolvency at the Pentagon
The War Against the West Has a Long Way to Go
How the U.N. Became Hamas’s Partner
The Shadows Moscow Casts Over Historian Mark Galeotti
Exodus or Endurance: The Plight of Egypt’s Christians
Nvidia Games: China v. the US in AI Arms Race
On the Road Again – in Japan and Taiwan
Why Putin Must Not Win
Syria Agonistes
Schools for Scandal
News Bulletin: MAGA Supporters Are Peace-Through-Strength Supporters
View from the Cockpit: The Night the U.S. Air Force Defended Israel from Iran
Bomb Fordow, Announce Ceasefire, Headline NATO: Trump's Five Fast Days
How Goes the War?
War Tour d’Horizon
China Since Tiananmen
Iran on the brink — or is the West getting played?
No Pain (for Putin), No Gain
A Hundred Years of Holy War
Melanie Phllips on Who Built the West and Who Can Save It
Bombers and Ballistic Missiles with Gen. Bussiere
Dealing with Tehran
Where in the World is Admiral Mark Montgomery?
Erdogan, the Neo-Ottoman: Turkish Without the Delight
Iran's Nuclear Weaponization
Lord Andrew Roberts’ Documented History of Oct. 7
America’s Top Soldier in the Pacific
Beyond the Abraham Accords
Introducing The Iran Breakdown
Disinformation and the Surreal Heart of the New Russia
Veterans and American National Security
All Eyes on Gaza
The Battle for Israel and The Dream of Gaz-a-Lago
The Shifting Sands of the Middle East
Trump’s National Security To-do List
Deal of the Century?
Get Smart on AI
A Jihadi New Year
What Does Regime Change in Syria Change?
What Americans actually believe
Another Day, Another Blood Libel
The Military America Needs
Israel Under Attack from Turtle Bay and The Hague
Trump Begins to Build His Team
Iran, the Day After
Back from the Front: Adm. Mark Montgomery’s Ukraine War Report
Decolonize Lebanon
Yahya Sinwar Rests in Pieces
McMaster and Bowman on the Axis of Aggressors and Cold War 2.0
Israel’s Year of Battles Against Tehran’s Proxies and Pawns
Two Fronts in The War Against the West
International Law and Disorder
Iran Update
The Long War: 23 Years After 9/11
Adversaries and the Army: A Conversation with the U.S. Army Chief of Staff
Matt Pottinger and the Boiling Moat
Taiwan, Under the Guns
MAAGA: Make the Abraham Accords Great Again
What just happened in the Middle East?
Spy Story
Putin's Pawns
NATO at 75
So Many Wars, So Little Time
Another Guest of the Ayatollah: The Kylie Moore-Gilbert Story
Out of South Africa
Turkey and the Neo-Sultan
What America Misunderstands About the Islamic Republic of Iran
Talk Like an Egyptian
News from 1,000 BCE
Reviving the Arsenal of Democracy
Saving Private Sinwar
Turtle Baywatch
The Road From Riyadh to Jerusalem
Jerusalem and Tehran Consider Their Options
The Thickening Fog of War
Israel's Shadow War
Ronald Meets the Donald
John Bolton’s New World Order
Ali Khamenei’s Nuclear Ambitions and Weapons of Mass Distraction
On Safari with Admiral Montgomery
View of the World from Boston
The UN’s Support for Hamas’ War On Israel
The Battle in Rafah, the War with Tehran
A moment of decision for Americans
Three Faces of Jew-Hatred
Colonel Richard Kemp on Israel's Long War
Pacific Deterrence: An Update from Admiral John Aquilino
Everything You Wanted to Know About Qatar But Were Afraid to Ask
Strait Talk on the Houthis
Schadlow’s Strategies
How Warfare Evolves
Dan Senor Calls Me Back
Pizza, Policy, and Helicopters: A Conversation with Rep. Jason Crow
What Hamas believes
Dispatches from the Ongoing 10/7 War
How Hamas Co-opts the Media
Israel’s War on Terrorism
Shattered Peace
The War to End All Wars Against Hamas
The (Against-the-Odds) Fight for Human Rights
Studying War Some More
Penetrating the Fog of Israel’s War
The 10/7 War
Ukraine in the Balance: A Conversation with Assistant Secretary of Defense Celeste Wallander
News Bulletin From Iran, 70 Years Late
Guests of the Ayatollah
The Polish Perspective
Mexico Is Going South
“No Freebies For Dictators” and other Abrams Doctrines
Ukraine: What comes next?
The Game of War: Part II
Pacific Overtures
The Game of War: Part I
Samuel Ramani on Russia in Ukraine and Russia in Africa
Russia’s Lost Empire
America’s Top Marine in the Middle East on the Iran Threat
Walter Russell Mead’s Global View
The World According to McMaster
Bombers, Balloons, and Santa’s Sleigh: Defending the American Homeland
Talking Türkiye
Who Needs Soft Power?
The Skunks at Israel’s Birthday Party
Under African Skies
Special Edition: Ukraine’s War of Independence
The Hashemite King’s Gambit
Israel’s Little Fires Everywhere
Deterring Aggression in the Pacific: A Conversation with General Kenneth S. Wilsbach
The U.S.-led Global Order and Its Discontents
Six Months of Protests in Iran
The Dark Side of the Coin
Chatting with the Chief: A Conversation with General James C. McConville
Czar Vladimir’s War: One Year and Counting
Tools of Terror: Iran’s Growing Ballistic Missile Threat
Warrior Diplomat on the Hill
Junipers, Oaks, and Killer Tomatoes
Guarding Contested Skies
Got Nukes?
From Malmo to Jerusalem
Venezuela: A Riches to Rags Story
The Jihad Brothers
Let the Uyghurs Go
Latin America’s China Problem
FIFA’s Qatar World Cup Runneth Over
The Moment Israel Was Born
The New Millenarianism
Mozart’s Mission in Ukraine
Iran’s 2022 Revolution
A Cyberspace Odyssey
Building the Air Force the U.S. Needs
Bank Shot
The modern Middle East’s most accomplished dictator
Words and Actions in the Taiwan Strait
Mother Russia’s Children
Michael Gordon’s Wars
After the Fall: Lessons Learned and Unlearned in Afghanistan
Connecting the Dots from Tehran to Gaza
Ukraine, Turkey, and NATO: U.S. Interests in Europe
The Life and Death of Emir al Zawahiri
Joe Biden in the Jewish State and the Saudi Kingdom
The Battles of Britain
The Lands in Between
Sic Semper Tyrannis
The Midway Measures Trap
Turkey and America: Can This Marriage Be Saved?
Nonproliferation, Biodefense, and National Security
NATO and Its Discontents
Deal or No Deal: Confronting the Islamic Republic of Iran the Reagan Way
Why They Fight
An Israel Briefing
Why America Can’t Be Denmark
Disinformation Wars
“Pivoting” and Other Foreign Policy Delusions
Why MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction) Is No Longer Reassuring
Mike Waltz: Warrior Diplomat and Congressman
The Fog of War and Diplomacy
A War in Ukraine, A Battle in Vienna, and Israel on the Edge
Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Three Perspectives on Putin’s War on Ukraine
Vladimir the Terrible
Enemies and Allies, Villains and Heroes
The Army and the Indo-Pacific
Russia and Ukraine: On the Brink of War
The Worst of Times
The Unruly and Not-So-Orderly Rules-based International Order
Biden’s Moment of Truth in Iran
H.R. McMaster, the Warrior Ethos, and the Wars Against the West
Chinese Communism 101: Beijing’s Campus Strategy
Biden’s Democracy Summitry
Strategic Surprise: A Conversation on Nuclear and Missile Threats with Rep. Mike Turner
King George, America‘s Founders, and the World Shaped by Both
Willful Blindness: Revisiting the 2021 Gaza War
The U.S. Rejoins the UN’s Human Rights Violators Club
Israel’s Shield in the Sky
The UN’s Strange Obsession with Israel
Nuclear and Chemical Watchdogs or Lapdogs?
The U.N. Record on Health, Human Rights, Trade, and Communications is Worse Than You Think
Jewish Germans and German Jews
Israel, Post-Bibi
The Predators Threatening Africa
The UN System: What Went Wrong and What Should Be Done
Raisi Rising
Tehran’s Nuclear Secrets
Eleven Days in May: The Latest Battle in the Long War Against Israel
Biden’s Mission to Realign the Middle East
The Middle East Muddle
Palestinians Head for the Polls – or Not
Beijing, the WHO, and the Pandemic
Putin vs. the Press
The Thin Red Line: Joby Warrick on the U.S. Response to this Century’s Worst War Crimes
The UN and the Illiberal International Order
Iran’s Road from Monarchy to Islamist Theocracy and Empire
Thinking Bigly at Foggy Bottom
Arms Control and the Man
The Powers that Should Be
The Rise of the Illiberal World Order
Sharansky’s Lives
China’s German Connection
The U.S. Military’s Southern Exposure: Trouble in the Neighborhood
H.R. McMaster and the Fight to Defend the Free World
The Iraq-Iran War: An Unhappy 40th Anniversary
Our Man in Geneva: The UN is bigger – but not better – than you think.
Ron Dermer on Israel in a Changing Middle East
The Kasparov Defense
The Failing State of Lebanon
Pivoting Toward China
Israel’s Border Lands
War and Peace and Other Options in Afghanistan
National Security Council for Dummies ft. Richard Goldberg (part two)
Predators in the Global Jungle
Special Edition: The U.S. Army and National Security
Sharpening the Iran File ft. Richard Goldberg (part one)
Where There’s a George Will, There’s a Way
China and the Future of Defense
Deal or No Deal
Saeed Ghasseminejad’s Iranian-American Journey
Nukes for the Ayatollah
Special Edition: Defense Dialogue
Israel and the Fire Next Time
Troubles Mount in Lebanon
The Rise and Incomplete Fall of the Islamic State
Whose Side is Turkey On?
Zombie Socialism
Syria‘s Sorrow and Pity
Fraternal Islamists: Getting to Know the Muslim Brotherhood
Venezuela: A Riches to Rags Story
Israelis stay the course
International Orders and Disorders
Israel on the Brink, As Usual
In the Line of Fire: Human Shields
Future Wars: a Conversation with H.R. McMaster
Ireland’s surprise attack on Israel
The Islamic State of Iran at 40
The Uses of Military Power
Special Edition: Crime Without Punishment
Tunnel Vision: America and Europe’s distorted view of the Middle East
In Afghanistan, the Substitute for Victory is Defeat
Churchill and the Destiny of the West
Preserving the Liberal World Order
President Carter’s Foreign Policy—Does a New Book Shed New Light?
Islamism and Jihadism: The view of one Muslim — and former CIA analyst
Extremism and Fragile States
A Conversation with Ambassador Nikki Haley
The Wars of the Jews
The Iranian-Israeli Conflict Within the Syrian Civil War
Religion and Secularism in Central Asia
Syria‘s World War
Turkey’s Election, Erdogan’s Counterrevolution
Iraq, Lebanon, and Iran’s March Across the Middle East
Nothing but Net: Cyber-Enabled Economic Warfare
Of Strikes and Strategy: U.S. Policy in Syria
In the Shadow of the Pyramids: Egypt’s Past Glories and Future Perils
The Future of the Iran Deal
Africa’s Jihadist Frontiers
UNRWA’s Palestinian Refugees
Russia’s Disinformation Offensive
A bombing, a cover-up, and a murder: Lessons from Alberto Nisman’s work to bring Iranian officials to justice for the AMIA terrorist attack in Argentina
Busted! Iran, Turkey and the Largest Sanctions-Evasion Scheme in Modern History
Upheaval in Iran: Causes and Consequences
The Latin American Narco-Terrorism Nexus
Countering Kim’s Nuclear North Korea
Osama bin Laden‘s Terrorist Treasure Trove
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