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Tech Summit: DARPA’s Stefanie Tompkins

Defense One Radio - July 02, 2024 11:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 128 ratings
We conclude our 2024 Tech Summit coverage with an interview featuring DARPA Director Stefanie Tompkins. Guest: Stefanie Tompkins, Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. You can see all of our interviews from the 2024 Tech Summit at Defense One's YouTube page, here.

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Tech Summit: The state of hypersonics

Defense One Radio - July 01, 2024 11:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★ - 128 ratings
Our 2024 Tech Summit coverage continues with a discussion about the future of hypersonic missile research and development. Guest: Frank Peterkin, Principal Director of Directed Energy at the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Critical Technologies; And Jarret Lafleur, Senior...

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Tech Summit: The Pentagon’s Maynard Holiday

Defense One Radio - June 30, 2024 19:56 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 128 ratings
We’re sharing some of our notable exchanges from the 2024 Defense One Technology Summit, beginning with the Pentagon's Maynard Holliday. Guest: Maynard Holliday, Performing the Duties of Assistant Secretary of Defense for Critical Technologies at the Defense Department. You can see all of...

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The future of Taiwan’s security with Dmitri Alperovitch

Defense One Radio - June 13, 2024 11:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★ - 128 ratings
What might an invasion of Taiwan look like, and how can allies help the island nation better defend itself?  Guest: Dmitri Alperovitch, chairman of the Silverado Policy Accelerator, a geopolitics think-tank in Washington. Sources: “World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Rac...

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The future of Taiwan's security with Mick Ryan

Defense One Radio - June 12, 2024 18:56 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 128 ratings
The author of “White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan" discusses shoring up defenses against a blockade or invasion.  Guest: Mick Ryan, retired Australian Army major general, strategist, and author. Sources: “White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan,” by Mick Ryan, published May 2023; "Ch...

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Behind the rise in global defense spending, Part 3: The wider world

Defense One Radio - May 20, 2024 13:34 - 23 minutes ★★★★ - 128 ratings
Guest: Chris Blattman, economist, political scientist, and Ramalee E. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies at the University of Chicago. Sources:  “Global military spending surges amid war, rising tensions and insecurity,” published April 2024 by the Stockholm International Peace Re...

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Behind the rise in global defense spending, Part 2: China and the Indo-Pacific

Defense One Radio - May 17, 2024 20:25 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 128 ratings
Guests: Mackenzie Eaglen, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where she works on defense strategy, defense budgets, and military readiness; And Ankit Panda, Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Sources:  “G...

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Behind the rise in global defense spending, Part 1: Russia

Defense One Radio - May 17, 2024 19:50 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 128 ratings
Guest: Maria Snegovaya, senior fellow for Russia and Eurasia with the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a postdoctoral fellow in Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service. Source material:  “Global military spending s...

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The state of the Air Force

Defense One Radio - April 26, 2024 22:03 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 128 ratings
Defense One's Audrey Decker interviews Gen. David Allvin and Air Mobility Command's Gen. Mike Minihan (at the 32:42 mark). You can also catch all of our 2024 State of Defense interviews on Defense One's YouTube page, here.

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The state of the Navy

Defense One Radio - April 17, 2024 21:49 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 128 ratings
Defense One Executive Editor Bradley Peniston speaks with Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti; and Defense One's Patrick Tucker sat down with Fourth Fleet commander Rear Adm. James Aiken (at the 28:09 mark). You can watch both of these interviews on Defense One's YouTube page, here.

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The state of the Army

Defense One Radio - April 12, 2024 20:09 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 128 ratings
Defense One's Sam Skove speaks to Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George; and Defense One's Jennifer Hlad speaks with Gen. Charles Flynn, commander of U.S. Army Pacific. You can watch both of these interviews on Defense One's YouTube page, here.

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The state of the Marine Corps

Defense One Radio - April 05, 2024 16:19 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 128 ratings
Defense One's Sam Skove speaks to Assistant Commandant Gen. Christopher Mahoney; and Defense One's Jennifer Hlad interviews Marine Corps Combat Development Command's Lt. Gen. Karsten Heckl. You can also watch either of these interviews on Defense One's events page, here.

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The state of the Space Force

Defense One Radio - March 27, 2024 20:28 - 57 minutes ★★★★ - 128 ratings
Defense One's Audrey Decker speaks to Chief of the Space Force Gen. Chance Saltzman; and Defense One's Lauren Williams interviews Air Force Col. Michelle Idle, deputy commander of Space Systems Command. You can also watch either of these interviews on Defense One's events page, here.

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Elliot Ackerman on ‘2054: A Novel’

Defense One Radio - March 13, 2024 22:11 - 18 minutes ★★★★ - 128 ratings
The author and Marine veteran discusses the future of technology, the promise of AI, the perils of toxic politics, and other themes packed into his latest work of speculative fiction.  Guest: Elliot Ackerman, co-author of "2054: A Novel," which was published on March 12. Find our previous di...

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The U.S. Air Force's big reorganization

Defense One Radio - February 21, 2024 21:42 - 20 minutes ★★★★ - 128 ratings
Audrey Decker unpacks the top news from this year's Air & Space Forces Association Warfare Symposium. Here's a roll-up of her reporting from the AFA symposium: Air Force announces major shakeup to prep for war with China; Air Force will narrow its pool of robot wingman vendors within ‘nex...

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How Russia cements control

Defense One Radio - February 16, 2024 19:38 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 128 ratings
How does the Kremlin force an entirely new reality on an occupied city? And how do Europeans feel about the invasion and U.S. hesitation to rearm Ukraine?   Guests: Karolina Hird, analyst and Russia Deputy Team Lead at the Institute for the Study of War; Karin von Hippel is Directo...

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Today's far-right terrorism in America

Defense One Radio - February 02, 2024 19:02 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 128 ratings
Guests: Bruce Hoffman, senior fellow for counterterrorism and homeland security at the Council on Foreign Relations; Jacob Ware, research fellow also at the Council on Foreign Relations. Their book “God, Guns, and Sedition: Far-right Terrorism in America" was published in January.

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Trouble on the Red Sea

Defense One Radio - January 18, 2024 22:51 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 128 ratings
We review how the Iran-backed Houthis are disrupting global shipping in the Red Sea, and we look back at similar dynamics near the end of the so-called tanker wars of the late 1980s. Guests: Fabian Hinz, research fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies; Patrick Tucker, ...

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Year in review

Defense One Radio - December 21, 2023 21:10 - 48 minutes ★★★★ - 128 ratings
We take stock of our last 12 months of interviews, featuring conversations with generals, White House officials, researchers, authors, our own reporters, and many more. Guests include: U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Joel “JB” Vowell, who at the time commanded the United States Army Japan; he is now comm...

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The future of defense acquisition

Defense One Radio - December 11, 2023 20:13 - 52 minutes ★★★★ - 128 ratings
The Army's top buyer and the Pentagon's integration chief talk Ukraine, non-traditional suppliers, and more.  Guests: Army Assistant Secretary for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology Doug Bush sat down with Defense One Global Business Editor Marcus Weisgerber. Deputy Assistant Secretary...

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What we learned from a Middle Eastern airshow

Defense One Radio - November 21, 2023 20:31 - 20 minutes ★★★★ - 128 ratings
We take a look at how officials around the region are carrying on with business as usual despite Israel's war with Hamas. Guest: Audrey Decker is a Defense One staff reporter, where she writes about air and space.

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Is this the beginning of the end for Hamas?

Defense One Radio - November 10, 2023 15:12 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 128 ratings
This episode, we discuss the daunting task of clearing Gaza City of Hamas as well as Israel's goal of crushing the group once and for all. Guests: Ret. Army Gen. Joseph Votel, distinguished senior fellow on national security at the Middle East Institute (beginning at the 2:15 mark); And Ba...

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AUSA extras

Defense One Radio - October 19, 2023 20:40 - 55 minutes ★★★★ - 128 ratings
Guests: Mark Kitz, program executive officer for command, control and communications-tactical (interviewed by Defense One's Lauren Williams, beginning at the 1:10 mark); And Army Brig. Gen. Guillaume Beaurpere of the Army’s John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School, as well as Maj. G...

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AUSA highlights

Defense One Radio - October 13, 2023 22:23 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 128 ratings
Defense One staff explain some of the major themes from this year's annual Association of the U.S. Army conference in Washington. Guest: Sam Skove, Defense One staff reporter; Patrick Tucker, Defense One science and tech editor. Read more from our AUSA coverage at any of the links below: ...

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The uncertain future of an eavesdropping law

Defense One Radio - October 04, 2023 20:04 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 128 ratings
We review the history of FISA Section 702 ahead of its possible expiration at the end of the year.  Guests: Cindy Cohn is the Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation; And Joshua Geltzer is Deputy Assistant to President Joe Biden and Deputy Homeland Security Advisor at the ...

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What ‘national security’ means for eastern Europe

Defense One Radio - September 22, 2023 17:46 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 128 ratings
Staff reporter Sam Skove shares some of the highlights from his recent trip to Poland, Estonia, and the UK.  Read more from Sam's European trip at any of the links below: How a tiny Polish airport became a key node for Western aid to Ukraine Polish support for Ukraine brings lessons, but ...

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Unpacking the 2023 Air, Space and Cyber conference

Defense One Radio - September 15, 2023 19:40 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 128 ratings
This episode we review several things we learned at the Air & Space Forces Association's annual Air, Space & Cyber conference. Guests: Audrey Decker, Defense One’s air and space reporter (beginning at the 0:46 mark); Lauren Williams, senior editor at Defense One (at 7:48); And Marcus Wei...

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The Pentagon’s new drone fixation

Defense One Radio - September 08, 2023 19:48 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 128 ratings
We dig into the U.S. military's new Replicator initiative, and explore Anduril's recent UAV-firm acquisition.  Guests: Patrick Tucker,science and technology editor at Defense One; Chris Brose, chief strategy officer for Anduril Industries. Related reading: “‘Hellscape’: DOD launches mass...

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'Oppenheimer,' explored

Defense One Radio - July 28, 2023 09:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 128 ratings
How much of America's nuclear history does the three-hour film pack in and how much did it leave out?  Guest: Martin Pfeiffer, a PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of New Mexico.

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"Oppenheimer," explored

Defense One Radio - July 28, 2023 09:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 128 ratings
How much of America's nuclear history does the three-hour film pack in and how much did it leave out?  Guest: Martin Pfeiffer, a PhD candidate in anthropology at the University of New Mexico.

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