All Episodes
Net Assessment — 99 episodes
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?