All Episodes

Net Assessment Assesses the 2026 Annual Threat Assessment

Apocalypse Soon? The US and NATO at a Crossroads

Might the United States Lose Access to Foreign Bases?

Mexico's Fight against the Cartels

A Strategy of Consolidation: Playing for Time?

Is the US a Predatory Hegemon?

Can the UN Be Reformed?

Implementing a Hellscape Strategy for Taiwan

Is There an End in Sight for the US War in Iran?

Will U.S. Allies Hedge? Should They?

A Broadside Against Battleships

Is Resolute Global Leadership the Right Grand Strategy for the United States?

New Denial Strategy? Assessing the 2026 NDS

Crude Awakening: Maduro's Seizure and Venezuela's Future

Farewell 2025, Hello 2026

What Does the United States Want From China and Why Can't We Get It?

'Safer, Richer, Freer, Greater'? Trump's New Strategy for American Power

Reciprocity: The Once and Future Strategy?

Whither Venezuela?

Are Rising Powers Over?

Can Foreign Aid Be Reformed? Should It Be?

Prediction is Hard, Especially about Confidence Levels

Is a Fight with Russia Worth the Risks?

How Will the U.S. Deal With a Weaponized World Economy?

A Strategy of Prioritization?

What's the Plan for AI?

Combating Mexican drug cartels: Is there a military solution?

A New Nuclear Age: The Sum of All Fears?

Trump Hammers Iran. What Comes Next?

Understanding the Four-Day War between India and Pakistan

Great Power Competition or Collusion?

The Paradoxical Power?

Is Arms Control Dead?

Why the Trump Administration Will Struggle to Make National Security Policy

One Last Trip Around the World?

Will Israel Strike Iran?

The End of the World, Again?

Is The People's Liberation Army Ready For a Fight Over Taiwan?

Risky Business: Assessing Risk to U.S. Strategy

Will Trump Focus on the Western Hemisphere?

Exploring the Implications of Precise Mass

What's Next in Syria?

Where Do We Go From Here?

A New National Security Strategy for the Trump Administration

Can the Next President Change U.S. Foreign Policy?

American Renewal?

What Is the U.S. Military Doing in Europe?

Is American Deterrence Failing?

A New Nuclear Age?

Is Everything a Matter of National Security?

Watching the Watchers: Assessing the Defense Strategy Commission

Attitude Adjustment: Can the US do better in Africa?

Can Europe be Trump-Proofed? And Should It Be?

Election Time: France and the United Kingdom Go to the Polls

A Live Turkey

Unraveling China's Plans for the Middle East

On China: To Win or Not To Win

Debating the Future of the Russo-Ukrainian War

Countering Foreign Media Manipulation. Or Not.

America's Report Card in Southeast Asia

The 2024 Annual Threat Assessment

Competing for Influence in Latin America

Are the U.S. and Europe Never Ever Getting Back Together?

Debating the New National Defense Industrial Strategy

Rating the Top Threats to U.S. National Security

Global Disorder and Houthi Strikes

Entrapment, Entanglement, and the Debate about U.S. Alliances

The New Washington Consensus

Dysfunction in Washington

Is Washington Making a Bad Bet on India?

Paying the Costs of Competition

Multipolarity: What Is It Good For?

Technology, Defense, and American-Chinese Competition

Better Burden Sharing With Allies

Is AUKUS Flawed By Design?

Turkey's More Independent Foreign Policy

One Year of War in Ukraine

Learning Lessons from Ukraine: Is Defense Dominant?

Looking Back at President Biden's Foreign Policy

Debating the Defense of Taiwan

The Risks of Nuclear Proliferation in Asia

Making Hard National Security Choices

Why The United States No Longer Leads on Free Trade

Debating the National Defense Strategy

Assessing the National Security Strategy

Searching for the Elusive Rules-Based Order

Military Lessons from the War in Ukraine

Galvanizing America's Defense Industrial Policy

Not Their Plane to Land: Generals Thwarting the Chain of Command?

Is U.S. Support to Taiwan Substantive or Symbolic?

Is NATO's Vision for Its Future Right?

Active Denial or In Denial?

An Energy Strategy to Defeat Russia?

Is Biden's Approach to Latin America a Problem?

Musings on Competition in the Pacific

Debating Sweden and Finland's Entry into NATO

Threats From Out of This World

A Strategy-Budget Mismatch?

Keeping the Right Secrets Secret

Russia's War in Ukraine: How Does this End?

Putin's Taunt: What Are You Going To Do About It?

The Pacific is Not So Pacific

The Biden Doctrine: Muddling Through?

Grading the Biden Team's Foreign Policy

A Heavy Price to Pay?