All Episodes
Shield of the Republic — 198 episodes
Trump is Destroying Our Diplomatic Corps
Pete Hegseth’s Long War Disaster
Can Iran Take More Pain Than Us?
Eliot's Return & Schrodinger's Strait
Trump's Path of Destruction (w/ Mona Charen)
The Cost of Boots on the Ground (w/ Mike Nelson)
Trump Needs Approval for This War (w/ Michael O'Hanlon) | Shield of the Republic
Iran and the Roots of Islamist Terror (w/ Jason Burke)
How Does The Iran War End?
Iran's Regional War Strategy is Failing (w/ Norman Roule)
Trump's Iran Gamble
China Is Ready For War. We Aren't. (w/ Seth Jones)
On The Precipice of Illegal War (w/ Frank Dikötter)
Arms Control is Dead
The Crisis Facing Our Military (w/ Kori Schake)
America's New Defense Strategy is Nonsense
How Evil Regimes Cling to Power (w/ Stephen Kotkin)
Don't Count on Trump Coming to the Rescue (w/ Michael Weiss)
A Dangerous Start to 2026
Trump's New War for Oil
We Need to Secure Our Supply Chains (w/ Mike Froman)
Double Taps and Drug Lord Pardons
When Power Stops Caring About the Law
The Pentagon's Confederate Cover-Up
Can Taiwan Trust the United States? (w/ Michael Hunzeker)
Why MAGA Loves Illiberalism (w/ Laura Field)
America Can't Go It Alone
Paranoia and Purges Are Consuming the Pentagon
The Dark Forces Conspiring Against Democracy (w/ Bill Galston)
How The Jews Fought Rome
Alliances With Dictators Never Last (w/ Tim Bouverie)
SPECIAL EPISODE: Trump Preaches Insanity to The General Officers
The Hack Is Coming From Inside the House
Russia is Openly Attacking NATO
How Does Israel Adapt After Failure?
The Man Who Enlarged NATO
How Do You Fight in a City?
Colombia's Challenging Path Forward
Trump’s Amateur Diplomacy Tests U.S. Allies
Putin's Growing Body Count
What is Israel's Plan?
The Unlikely Rise of MBS (w/ Karen Elliott House)
The International Order is Dead
Is Trump Losing Control of the Pentagon?
Eric and Eliot's Strike Assessment
EMERGENCY EPISODE: The Israel-Iran War
What to Expect From the NATO Summit
America's Original Protest Movement (w/ Rick Atkinson)
What to Make of The Middle East
The Return of Jackassery and Eliot's Travel Report
How to Practice Productive Statecraft
The Man in Kissinger's Shadow
America is Torching Its Credibility
A New Era of Economic Warfare
Is America Underestimating China?
Trump's New World Order
Lessons From a Successful American Diplomat
How Autocrats Use History
The Ongoing Vandalism of Our Government
Russia Is a Habitual Treaty Violator
Is American Decline an Illusion?
Emergency Podcast: An Oval Office Ambush
A Disgraceful Episode of American Diplomacy
An American Blunder in Munich
This Time the Damage Will Be Permanent
Russia's Long History of Subjugating Ukraine
Charles Lindbergh and the Ghosts of America First
The Intersection of Theatre and Politics
Biden's Foreign Policy Legacy
Trump's New International Reality
Deterrence is Cheaper Than War
A Catastrophic Blow to Putin
Trump's Nightmare National Security Nominations
We're Already at War with Russia
What Comes Next for Our National Security?
Trump's Stunning Ignorance
Trump's Stunning Ignorance (with John Bolton)
Georgia On My Mind
How Do You Adapt Under Fire?
October 7th: One Year Later
An Unlikely Network of Dictatorships
How WWII's Warlords Approached Strategy
How John Adams Established Enduring American Customs
Why We Should Be Worried About Iranian Nukes
What Would Kamala's Foreign Policy Look Like?
The Men Who Made a Century
The Lessons of '68
How to Kill a Democracy
Hostages, Assassinations, and the Future of National Defense
Paul Nitze: National Security's Forgotten Man
Is Trump 2.0 a Guaranteed Foreign Policy Disaster?
The Long Shadow of the Evil Empire
What's at Stake in the Global 2024 Elections
Was Machiavelli the Father of Modern Grand Strategy?
The Fallout From a Lost Decade
David Sanger on the New Cold Wars
Shield of the Republic Crosses the Century Mark
Israel's Current & Future Conundrum
Would China Risk it All?
A Resurgence of Antiliberalism
The Original America First Movement
Facing One of the Largest War Machines in Human History
A Depressing Trip Across the Pond
The New Fractured World (with Hal Brands)
What's Going on in Afghanistan?
The National Security Beat with Jim Sciutto
Nuclear Iran, NATO's Future, and America First Isolationism
The Art of Propaganda with Peter Pomerantsev
How Finland Escaped Stalin's Grasp
Liz Cheney on American Authoritarianism
What Happens if the House Fails in its Obligation
Eric and Eliot Look at the Bright Side
This War is Going to End Exactly How the West Decides it Will
We Need a Zero Tolerance Iran Policy
David Petraeus & Andrew Roberts on War
Barbarossa: The war in the east
What happens when the Russians come to your country
The Price of Strategic Slovenliness
Live from the Miller Center
Is America about to abandon Ukraine?
Understanding Hamas with Jonathan Schanzer
National Security with Secretary Gates
A French Perspective
Great Teachers and Two Wars
Everything is Going to Hell Part II
The Hollow Crown: Eliot's latest book is out now!
We Need a Renaissance in Deterrence Policy
Civilization vs. Barbarism
China's Two Sets of Books
If You Have a Book, You'll Never Be Alone
Everything is Going to Hell
A Trip to Taipei
The New Useful Idiots
Republicans for Ukraine
Thanks for Your Service
Israel's Divisions and the Challenges Ahead
Christopher Miller's Life and Times in Ukraine
What's Happening on the Battlefield?
Toomas Ilves on NATO's Vilnius Summit
Don't Give the Bastards Any Sanctuary
Reporting from the Front
Give Me the Gun Big Guy
The New Makers of Modern Strategy
A New Age of Danger
Escalation, Deterrence, and Leadership
Memorial Day, Election Day, and a Birthday
Eliot Cohen: Foreign Correspondent
The October Farce
The Next Phase of War
Potential for Regime Change in Ankara
Piecing Together Russia's Road to War
It's Our Country, We Want it Back
The Drivers of Illiberalism
They Weren't Stupid and They Weren't Criminals
Presidential Transitions & the Freedom Agenda
The Endgame in Afghanistan & Christian Nationalism
The Russo-Ukrainian Race For Adaptability Under Fire
Both Victory and Security Guarantee for Ukraine
The Missing Element
Erdoğan’s Earthquake
The Looming Balloon Gap
Neglect of Responsibility
Losing Sleep Over Germany
Superpowered Arms
The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy (with Michael Mandelbaum)
Divided They Stood
A Good Year For Authoritarians?
Reagan's Peace
The World Order
Revolution
Civilian Control
Happy Birthday Mr. Dictator
The Liz Truss Buttress
Why Russia's Military Got Ukraine So Wrong
Imperial Russia, Past and Present (with John Herbst)
Peak China and the Lessons of the Cold War (with Hal Brands and Michael Beckley)
Did America Get China Wrong? (with Professor Aaron Friedberg)
High Stakes in Ukraine (with Bill Kristol and Daniel Fried)
Wearing Russian Sanctions like a Badge of Honor (with David Kramer)
Hiatus
Putin's War and European Politics (with Nick Cohen)
The War's Decisive Moment
Security in the Indo-Pacific (with Charlie Edel)
War, Myth-making, and Democracy (with Elizabeth Samet)
The Ancients Illuminate Modern Statecraft (with Barry Strauss)
Why can’t we admit that Ukraine is winning?
Zelensky, Churchill, Reagan (with Andrew Roberts)
Joe Biden, War President (with Kori Schake)
Russia As a Pariah State
Neo-Maosim in China (with Jude Blanchette)
Secret Origin Story
Heeding the Lessons of the Cold War (with Hal Brands & Bill Kristol)
Why the Bad Guys are Winning (with Anne Applebaum)
Brian Katulis: Public Opinion & Foreign Policy
Three Dangerous Men (with Seth Jones)
There is Nothing For You Here (with Fiona Hill)
Woodrow Wilson and the Great War (with Philip Zelikow)
"A Strategic Failure": The War in Afghanistan with Carter Malkasian