Oct 7

Operation Vivaldi

For years now, the war in Ukraine has been fought on a largely static battlefield—characterized by attrition, with little opportunity for maneuver, and with only incremental changes to the front lines. But recently, seemingly out of nowhere, Ukrainian forces began recapturing ter ... Show More

45m 21s

Aug 5

How Commanders Win Wars

How did George Washington overcome virtually every material disadvantage to defeat the British during the Revolutionary War? How did Ulysses S. Grant turn the tides of the Civil War in the Union’s favor in the crucial year of 1864? How did Dwight Eisenhower manage the overwhelmin ... Show More

52m 14s

Jul 10

NATO's Ankara Summit

NATO just wrapped up its 2026 summit in Ankara, Turkey. Over two days of meetings and other events, the leaders of the alliance's thirty-two member states discussed a range of issues and challenges facing the alliance. But what did we actually learn from the summit? In a period t ... Show More

40m 8s

Jan 2025

FTS: AAI - The View from the Pentagon: What's Next In the Mideast, Ukraine, on China and on AI?

Original air date: January 22, 2024 Has the US response to attacks on our troops and ships, been adequate? Are the attacks against Houthis too little too late...or the start down a slippery slope to another military quagmire? What if our aid to Ukraine dries up? Is the Pentagon l ... Show More

42m 52s

Dec 2021

Is Russia on the brink of war with Ukraine?

Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/34bb8aee-612e-4b2e-ab59-0d11518e1d82" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ft.com/content/34bb8aee-612e-4b2e-ab59-0d11518e1d82</a> Gideon talks to ... Show More

23m 20s

Aug 2023

The Ukraine War - Where Are We and Where Do We Go From Here?

Michael’s guest this week is Australian Retired General Mick Ryan. Mick is a military analyst who served in the ADF for more than 35 years and was commander of the Australia Defence College. He is the author of War Transformed and an adjunct fellow at the Centre for Strategic and ... Show More

45m 31s

Jun 2025

An Insider's View of the Mideast Conflict

Israel's attacks on Iran and Iran's retaliation have brought the United States to the edge of entering another war in the Middle East. It is exposing divisions within President Trump's cabinet and the MAGA movement over American involvement abroad. As former Chair of the Joint Ch ... Show More

54m 20s

Aug 2022

Slicing the Sausage: Ukraine’s Upcoming Counteroffensive

In this podcast Dmitri Alperovitch interviews Sergii Grabskyi, a Reserve Colonel in the Ukrainian military, about Ukraine’s upcoming counteroffensive. Michael Kofman, Research Program Director in the Russia Studies Program at the Center for Naval Analysis, also joins the show ... Show More

53m 7s

May 2023

The War Goes to Russia

Tommy and Ben talk about President Zelensky’s travel to the Arab League and G7 summits, Biden’s policy change on training Ukrainian pilots to fly F-16s, mysterious attacks inside Russia and outcomes from the G-7 summit. They also discuss the foreign policy fallout from Biden c ... Show More

1h 20m

Oct 2022

What the Kerch Bridge Attack Means for the War

In the latest episode, Dmitri Alperovitch talks with Michael Kofman about the Kerch bridge attack, as well as: - Prospect of nuclear weapons use by Putin - Analysis of how Russia's mobilization drive has gone thus far - Kherson and Donbas counteroffensives ... Show More

48m 46s

May 2024

Ukraine war at a tipping point

Gideon discusses the state of Ukraine’s defences with Jack Watling, senior fellow for land warfare at the Royal United Services Institute. Russia’s advantage in ammunition and forces is beginning to show on the battlefield. What would it take to turn things back ... Show More

24m 47s

The Military Technological Arms Race in ...