Latest Pentagon Podcast Episodes
ClandesTime 243 – The Cinema of the Torture Program
ClandesTime - March 21, 2023 19:28 ★★★★ - 60 ratingsFilms about torture are often exploitative and sadistic, and even more so when they are state sponsored. In this episode... The post ClandesTime 243 – The Cinema of the Torture Program first appeared on Spy Culture. (Read more...)
Subscribercast #73 – The Shield Season One
ClandesTime - February 23, 2023 15:13 ★★★★ - 60 ratingsIn the first of several subscriber-only podcasts we look at season one of the unique and award-winning cop drama The... The post Subscribercast #73 – The Shield Season One first appeared on Spy Culture. (Read more...)
ClandesTime 242 – Jack Ryan vs The Recruit
ClandesTime - February 15, 2023 17:24 ★★★★ - 60 ratingsThe CIA-sponsored streaming wars hit a new high recently, when Netflix premiered The Recruit and within days Amazon released the... The post ClandesTime 242 – Jack Ryan vs The Recruit first appeared on Spy Culture. (Read more...)
Subscribercast #72 – What is Life Worth?
ClandesTime - February 04, 2023 20:37 ★★★★ - 60 ratingsIn this quick podcast I review the biographical moral drama Worth (2020) a.k.a. What is Life Worth?. It tells the... The post Subscribercast #72 – What is Life Worth? first appeared on Spy Culture. (Read more...)
North Korea's Cyber-Warriors with Jean Lee
RealClear Defense presents Hot Wash - February 01, 2023 23:53 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsFollow Hot Wash on Twitter @hotwashrcd Email comments and story suggestions to [email protected] Subscribe to the RealClearDefense Podcast "Hot Wash" Subscribe to the Morning Recon newsletterfor a daily roundup of news and opinion on the issues that matter for military, defense, ve...
ClandesTime 241 – World War III
ClandesTime - January 28, 2023 15:42 ★★★★ - 60 ratingsIn early 1977 a retired NATO general put together a team of elite military officers to write a report on... The post ClandesTime 241 – World War III first appeared on Spy Culture. (Read more...)
Surviving Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima: Talking to WWII Vet Bill Swanson
RealClear Defense presents Hot Wash - January 26, 2023 20:15 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsFollow Hot Wash on Twitter @hotwashrcd Email comments and story suggestions to [email protected] Subscribe to the RealClearDefense Podcast "Hot Wash" Subscribe to the Morning Recon newsletterfor a daily roundup of news and opinion on the issues that matter for military, defense, ve...
ClandesTime 240 – The Cinema of the War in Afghanistan
ClandesTime - January 12, 2023 16:04 ★★★★ - 60 ratingsThe invasion and occupation of Afghanistan was America’s longest war. In this episode we take an overview of the war... The post ClandesTime 240 – The Cinema of the War in Afghanistan first appeared on Spy Culture. (Read more...)
Gut-wrenching Story of Bravo Company in the 82nd Airborne
RealClear Defense presents Hot Wash - December 29, 2022 14:51 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsSubscribe to the RealClearDefense Podcast "Hot Wash" Subscribe to the Morning Recon newsletterfor a daily roundup of news and opinion on the issues that matter for military, defense, veteran affairs, and national security.
Subscribercast #71 – The Langley Files
ClandesTime - December 25, 2022 09:33 ★★★★ - 60 ratingsThe CIA recently launched a new outreach effort – its own podcast. In this subscribercast I review and analyse The... The post Subscribercast #71 – The Langley Files first appeared on Spy Culture. (Read more...)
Why America Loses Wars: the Failures of Ends, Ways, and Means in US Military Strategy with Don Stoker
RealClear Defense presents Hot Wash - December 21, 2022 21:16 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsRead the article on RealClearDefense Why America Loses Wars Follow Hot Wash on Twitter @hotwashrcd Email comments and story suggestions to [email protected] Subscribe to the RealClearDefense Podcast "Hot Wash" Subscribe to the Morning Recon newsletterfor a daily roundup of news an...
ClandesTime Special – State Sponsored Football and the Qatar World Cup
ClandesTime - December 11, 2022 18:03 ★★★★ - 60 ratingsFootball is the world’s biggest sport, and perhaps the most state-sponsored sport. In this episode we take a critical look... The post ClandesTime Special – State Sponsored Football and the Qatar World Cup first appeared on Spy Culture. (Read more...)
Defense Budgets Bloated by Threat Inflation? Russia and China from a Free Markets Perspective
RealClear Defense presents Hot Wash - December 09, 2022 19:28 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsOn this episode of "Hot Wash" we look at the US military’s peer adversaries from a “Free Markets” perspective. Are defense budgets bloated by threat inflation? RCD contributor John Waters and I speak with John Tamny, a frequent commentator on financial markets and the economy and the Editor at ...
Putin’s Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine with Mark Galeotti
RealClear Defense presents Hot Wash - December 01, 2022 18:49 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsFollow Hot Wash on Twitter @hotwashrcd Email comments and story suggestions to [email protected] Subscribe to the RealClearDefense Podcast "Hot Wash" Subscribe to the Morning Recon newsletterfor a daily roundup of news and opinion on the issues that matter for military, defense, ve...
Subscribercast #70 – Deep Fakes and The Capture
ClandesTime - November 30, 2022 20:44 ★★★★ - 60 ratingsImagine a world where secret government agencies used deep fakes to create evidence of events that never happened, and used... The post Subscribercast #70 – Deep Fakes and The Capture first appeared on Spy Culture. (Read more...)
On the Run
Zero Hour: A History of 9/11 - November 26, 2022 22:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 91 ratings2001 - 2002 In the aftermath of 9/11, the United States and its allies invade Afghanistan for the beginning of a decades-long stay. Al Qaeda and the Taliban are decisively routed in a matter of weeks, but Osama bin Laden manages to give the U.S. military the slip at Tora Bora. Meanwhile, the...
ClandesTime 239 – Captain Marvel and Space Force
ClandesTime - November 26, 2022 15:19 ★★★★ - 60 ratingsSomehow, in the midst of all the identity politics and culture war noise, the fact that Captain Marvel was the... The post ClandesTime 239 – Captain Marvel and Space Force first appeared on Spy Culture. (Read more...)
ClandesTime 238 – The Cultural Impact of the Rampart Scandal
ClandesTime - November 05, 2022 10:15 ★★★★ - 60 ratingsThe Rampart Scandal has been called the worst police corruption story in the history of Los Angeles, and altered a... The post ClandesTime 238 – The Cultural Impact of the Rampart Scandal first appeared on Spy Culture. (Read more...)
Bravo Company: An Afghanistan Deployment and Its Aftermath
RealClear Defense presents Hot Wash - November 04, 2022 17:51 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsOn today’s episode of the RealClearDefense podcast “Hot Wash,” host John Sorensen, and RCD contributor John Waters speak with journalist and combat veteran Ben Kesling about his new book, “Bravo Company: An Afghanistan Deployment and Its Aftermath”. It is the story of one unit of the famed 82nd...
ClandesTime 237 – 13 Hours and the Benghazi Scandal
ClandesTime - October 30, 2022 10:17 ★★★★ - 60 ratingsThe 2012 attacks on a US diplomatic outpost and a nearby CIA base in Benghazi caused enormous controversy and political... The post ClandesTime 237 – 13 Hours and the Benghazi Scandal first appeared on Spy Culture. (Read more...)
The Shot: The Harrowing Journey of a Marine in the War On Terror
RealClear Defense presents Hot Wash - October 28, 2022 19:49 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsOn today’s episode of the RealClearDefense podcast “Hot Wash,” RCD contributor John Waters speaks with Bill Bee and Wills Robinson the authors of “The Shot: The Harrowing Journey of a Marine in the War On Terror.” Subscribe to the RealClearDefense Podcast "Hot Wash" Subscribe to the Morning Re...
Costs of War with Stephanie Savell
RealClear Defense presents Hot Wash - October 21, 2022 01:20 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsOn the RealClearDefense podcast "Hot Wash", host John Sorensen and RCD Contributor John Waters speak with Stephanie Savell, the Co-Director of the Costs of War project at the Watson Institute for International Relations at Brown University. Savell is an anthropologist, who researches militarism,...
Subscribercast #69 – Black Ops and Geopolitics in the War in Bosnia
ClandesTime - October 20, 2022 12:25 ★★★★ - 60 ratingsMujahideen. False Flags. US interference in the peace process. Ethnic cleansing. The United Nations’ peacekeepers. All this and more as... The post Subscribercast #69 – Black Ops and Geopolitics in the War in Bosnia first appeared on Spy Culture. (Read more...)
Jason Kander “Invisible Storm: A Soldier’s Memoir of Politics and PTSD”
RealClear Defense presents Hot Wash - October 11, 2022 17:52 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsOn today's episode of the RealClearDefense Podcast "Hot Wash" host John Sorensen and RCD contributor Todd Carney, speak with Jason Kander, veteran, politician and most recently author of “Invisible Storm: A Soldier’s Memoir of Politics and PTSD” In 2006, Kander served as a military intelligenc...
Escape From Kabul
RealClear Defense presents Hot Wash - October 06, 2022 20:09 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsOn today's RealClearDefense podcast "Hot Wash," host John Sorensen and RCD Editor David Craig, talk with Jamie Roberts, the director of a new documentary on HBO/Max “Escape From Kabul” about the chaotic evacuation of civilians from Afghanistan in August of last year. The documentary uses never b...
Subscribercast #68 – Compulsion vs Rope
ClandesTime - September 30, 2022 16:17 ★★★★ - 60 ratingsThe Leopold and Loeb case was one of ‘crimes of the century’, and inspired many books, plays and movies. On... The post Subscribercast #68 – Compulsion vs Rope first appeared on Spy Culture. (Read more...)
ClandesTime 236 – Culture Ministries and The Rings of Power
ClandesTime - September 22, 2022 14:42 ★★★★ - 60 ratingsAmazon Prime are making the most expensive TV show of all time. Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power... The post ClandesTime 236 – Culture Ministries and The Rings of Power first appeared on Spy Culture. (Read more...)
Stuart Scheller, "Crisis of Command"
RealClear Defense presents Hot Wash - September 21, 2022 17:30 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsToday on the RealClearDefense podcast “Hot Wash” RCD editor David Craig, contributor John Waters, and host John Sorensen speak with retired Marine Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Scheller, about holding the political and military leadership accountable for the chaotic withdrawal and ultimate Taliban v...
Andrew Milburn of The Mozart Group: The War for Ukraine
RealClear Defense presents Hot Wash - September 16, 2022 20:24 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsOn this edition of the RealClear Defense podcast Hotwash, John Sorensen hosts retired Marine Colonel Andrew Milburn, Founder and CEO of the Mozart Group, an organization that is training Ukrainian frontline units in the war against Russian occupation. Milburn retired from the Marine Corps as a c...
ClandesTime 235 – These are a Few of My Favourite Films
ClandesTime - September 11, 2022 11:17 ★★★★ - 60 ratingsObviously, I’m a movie addict but many of my favourites are low-budget features or belong to tiny sub-genres. In this... The post ClandesTime 235 – These are a Few of My Favourite Films first appeared on Spy Culture. (Read more...)