All Episodes

Bill Edwards, "Killer Drones"

Panel on "Arctic Security in Great Power Competition"

Down the Rabbit Hole on the Russia-Ukraine War #22 - Conscripts, Prisoners, and Pipelines

Interview with Ms. Golnaz Esfandiari

Zachary Kallenborn, "A Game of Drone (Swarms)"

Down the Rabbit Hole on the Russia-Ukraine War #21 - Mobilization

SgtMaj Troy Black, Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps

LtGen David Bellon, USMC, Commander, Marine Forces Reserve/Marine Forces South

Down the Rabbit Hole on the Russia-Ukraine War #20 - Liberation and Contrasts

Down the Rabbit Hole on the Russia-Ukraine War #19 - New Fronts

Tim Barrick and Ian Brown, "Wargaming and the Russo-Ukraine War"

Down the Rabbit Hole on the Russia-Ukraine War #18 - Counteroffensives and Defenestration

Down the Rabbit Hole on the Russia-Ukraine War #17 - День незалежності України/Independence Day

Force Design 2030, Task Force 61/2, and the 2d Marine Division - MajGen Frank Donovan and CMC Scottie Cox

"Talent Management 2030" with General Eric Smith, USMC, Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps

Ada Sayin, "Women in Command: Hybrid Threat Rising" Wargame Project

Down the Rabbit Hole on the Russia-Ukraine War #16 - From Crimea With Love

Col Brian Greene, Commanding Officer of the Marine Corps Tactics and Operations Group

Down the Rabbit Hole on the Russia-Ukraine War #15 - Entering the Third Phase

Down the Rabbit Hole on the Russia-Ukraine War #14 - Human Factors & A Little Light Wargaming

Dr. Dara Kay Cohen, "Wartime Sexual Violence Yesterday, Ukraine, and Tomorrow: A Context"

Down the Rabbit Hole on the Russia-Ukraine War #13 - Turkey and Greece

Down the Rabbit Hole on the Russia-Ukraine War #12 - Timelines and Sustainment

Talent Management 2030

Down the Rabbit Hole on the Russia-Ukraine War #11 - Ukraine's Wheat and the World

Dr. Anahid Matossian, "Syria and Ukraine: A Comparative WPS Lens"

NATO's Allied Rapid Reaction Corps & the UK Fight Club

Down the Rabbit Hole on the Russia-Ukraine War #10 - New NATO Nations & The Outlook in the East

Jonathan Katz, “Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America’s Empire”

Skip Crawley, "Guadalcanal: Seizing and Defending An Advanced Base Inside the Enemy's Defensive Perimeter"

Interview with Kn/Capt. Patrik Hulterström, Swedish Defence University

Interview with Capt Silvia Haas, USMC

Dr. Markus Göransson, “Russian Military Thinking: New War & the Strategy of Limited Actions”

MES Research Talk—Dr. David Malet, “What to Expect When You’re a Foreign Fighter in Ukraine”

Col Brian Russell & Col Lester Gerber, “A Tale of Two Cities: Generating Information Advantage in the FMF”

Down the Rabbit Hole on the Russia-Ukraine War #9 - "Victory" Day

Dr. Joanna Siekiera, "Fragile, Leaky, and Weak: Challenges for International Humanitarian Law in Ukraine"

Down the Rabbit Hole on the Russia-Ukraine War #8 - Catching Up

Col Tim Barrick, USMC (Ret.) & Col Matt Jones, USMC (Ret.), "Force Design 2030: Debating the Issues"

MES Lecture Series - VADM Pascal Ausseur (France, Ret.), "Rising Tensions in the Mediterranean"

Down the Rabbit Hole on the Russia-Ukraine War #7 - The War Shifts East/Welcome to my Combined Arms TED Talk

Dr. Lasha Tchantouridzé, “The War in Europe: Russia’s Nuclear Options”

Capt Casey LaMar, USMC, & Dr. Leah Windsor, “Signaling Strategy"

Down The Rabbit Hole on the Russia-Ukraine War #6 - Are the Inmates Running the Asylum?

Down the Rabbit Hole on the Russia-Ukraine War #5 - Abuses and Atrocities

MES Research Talk - Dr. Jason Warner, "The Islamic State's Expansion in Africa"

Lessons for Cyber Strategy After the Ukraine War

Down the Rabbit Hole on the Russia-Ukraine War #4 - Peace Negotiations (?)

Down the Rabbit Hole on the Russia-Ukraine War #3 - The Extraordinary NATO Summit

Down the Rabbit Hole on the Russia-Ukraine War #2 - Territorial Concessions

Special Episode - Interview with Ms. Nataliya Gumenyuk

Arvin Verma, "Disinformation Campaigns"

Down the Rabbit Hole on the Russia-Ukraine War #1 - Peace Negotiations

Dr. Rita Konaev, "Russia and Urban Warfare"

Special #BruteCast - Interview with Ms. Anna Bulakh

Thomas Kent, "Information and the Russian Public"

Dr. Matthew Ford & Prof. Andrew Hoskins, "War in the Age of the Smartphone"

Maj Gen Mick Ryan, Australian Army (Ret.), "War Transformed"

Dr. Yuval Weber & Dr. Rosella Cappella Zielinski, “Update on Ukraine”

MES Research Talk - Dr. Stig Jarle Hansen, "Phoenix Rising: U.S. Strategic Competition in the Red Sea Zone & Horn of Africa with China and Russia"

Dr. Yuval Weber, "Russia and Ukraine: State of Play"

Panel on "Rapid Wargame Prototyping for Crises"

Col Sönke Marahrens, "Closing in on Hybrid Warfare"

Dr. Christopher Harmon, "A Disturbing Parallel"

Dr. James Holmes, "Biden's Monroe Doctrine"

Col Sönke Marahrens, "To Dice or Not to Dice...That Is The Question! The Origins of the Prussian Kriegsspiel"

Col Andy Milburn, USMC (Ret.) - "Changing Corps Culture for Future War"

Col Anthony Wood, USMC (Ret.), "Saigon and Contingency Planning"

Dr. Bradford Wineman with Dr. Lauren Mackenzie, "Gender Integration and Citizenship: A Civil-Military Perspective"

Dan Sheehan, "After Action: The True Story of a Cobra Pilot's Journey"

Timothy "Skip" Crawley - "Defending the Advanced Base: The Battle of Wake Island"

Middle East Studies Research Talk - Ms. Yun Sun, "China's Afghanistan Strategy Post-U.S. Withdrawal"

Sebastian Bae, "Fleet Marine Force: Designing an Educational Wargame"

Dr. Nina Kollars & Prof. Benjamin Schechter - "Coffee Theft, Power Grids, and JADC2: It's All Cyber Shenanigans"

Dr. James "Pigeon" Fielder - "The (War)gamer's Toolkit: Harvesting Mechanics from other Game Genres"

Dr. Andrew Reddie, "From Art to Science: Analytical Wargaming and Behavioral Research"

Capt Walker D. Mills, USMC, "Professional Writing for Junior Officers (Or Anybody!)"

Dr. James Holmes, "Chinese Sea Power in Ten Minutes"

Dr. Amin Tarzi on the Islamic State - Khurasan Province (ISKP)

Group Captain Jo Brick, "Military Ethics in Wargaming"

Col Sönke Marahrens, "Why The German Armed Forces Are The Way They Are"

Panel on "Good Enough Governance: Humility and the Limits of Foreign Intervention in Civil Wars and Weak States"

Edward Hess, "Hyper-Learning and Marines: A New Need in Digital Warfare"

Dr. James Roche, "Innovations of the Past: Amphibious Aircraft and Seaplanes"

Col Wendell Leimbach, "Intermediate Force Capabilities"

Olivia Garard, "An Annotated Guide to Tactics: Carl von Clausewitz on 'Theory of the Combat'

Dr. Craig Whiteside, "The Routinization of Islamic State's Global Enterprise"

The Old Is New Again - Tentative Manuals and Amphibious Doctrines in the 1930s and 2020s

Inside Project 6633

Col Gerald Acosta, “One Belt/One Road & Weaponization of the Global Supply Chain"

Operational Energy in Support of Deterrence

Dr. Christopher C. Harmon, "Cooperation & Contest: Churchill’s Views on Great Powers, 1944-1946"

"Wresting Back the Strategic Initiative in the South China Sea" panel

"On Contested Shores" panel

Get "Stuff" Done: How the USAF model for barrier analysis is shaping a grassroots effort in the Marine Corps

Turning on a DIME: South China Sea Scene Setting toward Taking Back the Strategic Initiative

Dr. Kristina Hook and Drew Marcantonio, “War-Related Environmental Crises, Risks, and Decision-Making: A Case Study from Ukraine”

Sgt Chris Elles, "Move, Shoot, Communicate, Innovate"

Dr. Christopher Anzalone, "Islamizing Rebel Governance"

Art Corbett, "The Military Innovator's Dilemma"