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Spies, Threats, and Government Jets
Live! At Mount Vernon
The Foreign Policy Midterm
Rubio & Hegseth’s Presidential Pipedreams
Pete Hegseth Dropped Eisenhower’s Globe!?
Trump & Elon Screw Ukraine (Again!)
The Strategist: Eliot's New Book on War & Politics
Emergency Episode: Trump’s Impeachable Diesel Deal
October Mailbag Episode
Yemen’s Civil War Turns Hot Again
Emergency Episode: Hegseth’s Quantico Manifesto
The Next Powder Keg Ready to Blow
Trump Claims “The Spoils” at the U.N.
The Iran War Explodes into the Red Sea
Kushner & Witkoff's Sad Attempt at Diplomacy
September Mailbag Episode
Japan’s Nuclear Taboo is Shattering
Shield of the Republic Says Farewell
Frank Kendall and the Weapons of Tomorrow
America's Critical Infrastructure is Under Attack
Shield of the Republic's New Home
The Iranian Doom Loop (w/ Robert Parkinson)
Ukraine's Defense Shake Up
The Anti-Strategic President
NATO's Annual Circus Comes to Turkey
Rising Antisemitism is a Dark Omen for Society (w/ Deborah Lipstadt)
The Iranian Regime Isn't Going Anywhere (w/ Kenneth Pollack)
North Korea's New Nuclear Doctrine
The Never-ending Iran Negotiations
Trump's Regime Change Plan for Cuba
Ending the War Will Require Force
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