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Pizza, Policy, and Helicopters: A Conversation with Rep. Jason Crow
Foreign Podicy - December 08, 2023 18:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsCongressman Jason Crow (D-CO) represents Colorado’s Sixth Congressional District, encompassing Aurora and adjacent areas. He's a former Army Ranger and Bronze Star recipient who deployed to combat in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Now in Congress, he serves on the important House Permanent Select Co...
What Hamas believes
Foreign Podicy - December 01, 2023 17:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsDuring its October 7 invasion, Hamas terrorists slaughtered more than one thousand civilians in Israel. Its horrific acts of terrorism on that day also included mass rape, pillaging, the desecration of corpses, hostage-taking, and other unspeakable atrocities. Hamas has openly stated that it ai...
Dispatches from the Ongoing 10/7 War
Foreign Podicy - November 24, 2023 18:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsThough the fighting is paused, Israel’s defensive war against Hamas continues. FDD Chief Executive Mark Dubowitz and former Israeli National Security Advisor Eyal Hulata — now a senior international fellow at FDD — just returned from Israel. Host Cliff May asks them what they saw, heard, and lea...
How Hamas Co-opts the Media
Foreign Podicy - November 20, 2023 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsAlthough six weeks have passed since Iran-backed Hamas terrorists invaded Israel and butchered more than 1,200 innocent civilians while taking hostage another 240, this is just the beginning of Israel’s multi-front defensive war. One key battlefield: the information space. Historically, the od...
Israel’s War on Terrorism
Foreign Podicy - November 17, 2023 19:30 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsFor an update on Israel's ground offensive in Gaza, AKA Israel's War on Terrorism, host Cliff May is joined by FDD experts Jonathan Schanzer — FDD Senior Vice President for Research and author of Gaza Conflict 2021: Hamas, Israel and Eleven Days of War — and FDD Senior Fellow Jacob Nagel, who pr...
Shattered Peace
Foreign Podicy - November 10, 2023 17:38 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsThe October 7 atrocities committed against Israel and by Hamas terrorists with support from the Islamic Republic of Iran has frozen the rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Israel, as the clerical regime in Tehran doubtless anticipated. Now, the future of Saudi-Israeli relations may well depen...
The War to End All Wars Against Hamas
Foreign Podicy - November 03, 2023 20:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsNearly a month ago, Hamas invaded Israel and murdered over 1,400 men, women, and children. It was the deadliest attack on the Jewish people since World War II, which was also a war against the Jews that culminated in the Holocaust. The Israel Defense Forces are now in Gaza aiming to cripple Hama...
The (Against-the-Odds) Fight for Human Rights
Foreign Podicy - November 01, 2023 12:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsTwo of the world's top experts on human rights join host Cliff May to discuss the October 7 massacre in Israel — the atrocity carried out by Hamas and backed by Iran’s jihadi rulers — and about all that has followed since, in the Middle East, the US, Canada, and elsewhere. They discuss inactio...
Studying War Some More
Foreign Podicy - October 27, 2023 23:38 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsIt is the opinion of your Foreign Podicy host, Cliff May, that Andrew Roberts is the world’s greatest living historian. In recent years, he has written groundbreaking biographies of Churchill, Napoleon, and King George. He’s a Bradley Prize winner, and Cliff is the one who nominated him. Howe...
Penetrating the Fog of Israel’s War
Foreign Podicy - October 20, 2023 23:20 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsHamas' terrorist attack on Israel has led to war. We have to think that’s what Hamas and its patrons in Tehran expected and very likely wanted. Is that because they believe they can win on the Gazan battlefields? Does Hezbollah, Tehran’s Lebanese foreign legion, plan to open a second front? Or...
The 10/7 War
Foreign Podicy - October 14, 2023 03:55 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsIsrael is at war with Hamas — a real war, not another “mow the grass” conflict. Hamas is one of the terrorist groups funded, armed, trained and instructed by the Islamic Republic of Iran. This war began on Saturday, October 7 when Israel was invaded by Hamas barbarians who mass-murdered young ...
Ukraine in the Balance: A Conversation with Assistant Secretary of Defense Celeste Wallander
Foreign Podicy - September 30, 2023 00:53 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsAmericans, our elected officials in Congress, and individuals aspiring to be the next U.S. president are debating whether the United States should continue to support Ukraine. Some Republican presidential candidates are arguing against aid for Ukraine, while several others warn that abandoning U...
News Bulletin From Iran, 70 Years Late
Foreign Podicy - September 23, 2023 02:32 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratings“What’s past is prologue,” Shakespeare informed us. But what if the past is misunderstood? Or misrepresented? What if policy makers are making policies based on false historical narratives? In 1979, host Cliff May went to Iran to report on the revolution that was then underway. Cliff admits t...
Guests of the Ayatollah
Foreign Podicy - September 18, 2023 20:42 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratings“Hostage diplomacy” is a term you’ll frequently see in the media, but it's a misleading term. What we’re really talking about: Dictators kidnapping and torturing innocent foreign civilians. In some cases, the leaders of free countries pay ransom to get them back. In some cases, the dictators a...
The Polish Perspective
Foreign Podicy - September 08, 2023 12:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsVladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine is illegal, immoral, brutal, and barbarian. And if you agree that there is no good alternative to American leadership of the world’s free nations and those that aspire to be, then it follows that it would be a terrible mistake — strategically and morally — for A...
Mexico Is Going South
Foreign Podicy - August 30, 2023 22:45 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsHost Cliff May lived in Mexico in the late 1970s. Back then, there were reasons to believe Mexico was moving in the right direction. That’s no longer the case. Mexico’s narco-cartels are not only growing in power but also making common cause with Chinese Communists. One result: fentanyl-laced dru...
“No Freebies For Dictators” and other Abrams Doctrines
Foreign Podicy - August 18, 2023 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsElliott Abrams has been in the foreign policy business for a rather long time. Years ago, he served on the staffs of Democratic Senators Henry “Scoop” Jackson and Daniel Patrick Moynihan. He later served in the administrations of Republican Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. During t...
Ukraine: What comes next?
Foreign Podicy - August 11, 2023 14:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratings"It's not a sprint, it's a marathon." That was the reported assessment of a Ukrainian battalion commander recently describing Kyiv's counteroffensive against invading Russian forces. To be sure, the progress of the Ukrainian forces has been slow and the human cost incredibly high. Meanwhile, m...
The Game of War: Part II
Foreign Podicy - August 04, 2023 16:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsIn Part II of the Game of War, host Cliff May is again joined by Dr. Ben Jensen and RADM (Ret) Mark Montgomery to continue their discussion on wargaming. They discuss its application in both Taiwan and Ukraine.
Pacific Overtures
Foreign Podicy - July 28, 2023 12:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsChina’s rulers gaze across the Taiwan Strait and see an island where people are free, prosperous, and choose their leaders. They don’t like that. They insist that the people of Taiwan must be ruled by the Communist Party of China. They vow that this is the future and that they will make it happe...
The Game of War: Part I
Foreign Podicy - July 21, 2023 23:30 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsWar games are not entertainments. They are simulations; a way to develop insights into what would happen in an armed conflict – who would prevail and at what cost, should push come to shove. War games test strategies and capabilities. They are a tool for both research and training. Recently, Dr...
Samuel Ramani on Russia in Ukraine and Russia in Africa
Foreign Podicy - July 14, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsSamuel Ramani teaches politics and international relations at Oxford. He’s the author of Russia in Africa and Putin’s War on Ukraine. His articles appear in a range of top-tier publications. He’s often on the BBC and other international broadcast media. His Twitter feed is granular and prolific...
Russia’s Lost Empire
Foreign Podicy - July 10, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsHost Cliff May recently wrote a column for the Washington Times guessing what Vladimir Putin might do next if he should succeed in Ukraine. He suggested Putin would take over Moldova, formalize his control over Belarus, and then turn his hungry eyes toward the Baltic states — with the primary g...
America’s Top Marine in the Middle East on the Iran Threat
Foreign Podicy - July 07, 2023 12:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsMajor General Paul J. Rock Jr. commands United States Marine Corps Forces Central Command, or MARCENT. That makes him the top U.S. Marine in the Middle East. MajGen Rock is a Marine aviator with combat deployments to Iraq, and he was the commanding general of the 3d Marine Expeditionary Brigade ...
Walter Russell Mead’s Global View
Foreign Podicy - June 23, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsWalter Russell Mead is the Global View Columnist at the Wall Street Journal, the James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College in New York, the Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship at the Hudson Institute, and he’s a member of A...
The World According to McMaster
Foreign Podicy - June 16, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsLTG (Ret.) H.R. McMaster wears many hats. Most important for us at FDD: He’s Chairman of the Board of Advisors for our Center on Military and Political Power (CMPP). He served as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army for 34 years, he holds a doctorate in military history, and he was the 26th ...
Bombers, Balloons, and Santa’s Sleigh: Defending the American Homeland
Foreign Podicy - June 12, 2023 00:00 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsOne of the most important missions of the United States military is defending our homeland against a range of threats. But that mission is only becoming more difficult as China, Russia, and North Korea strengthen their means to threaten Americans here at home. What is the current military threa...
Talking Türkiye
Foreign Podicy - June 02, 2023 12:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsOn May 28, 2023, after 21 years in power, Recep Tayyip Erdogan won another five-year-term as president of Turkey — or Türkiye — as he prefers. To discuss what this means for Türkiye, the U.S., the Middle East, Europe, and NATO, host Cliff May is joined by Sinan Ciddi, non-resident senior fellow ...
Who Needs Soft Power?
Foreign Podicy - May 26, 2023 12:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsAmerican political scientist Joseph Nye popularized the concept of soft power decades ago. As he wrote in his 2004 book by that name, “soft power – getting others to want the outcomes that you want – co-opts people rather than coerces them.” Such soft power cooption can be less costly than hard ...
The Skunks at Israel’s Birthday Party
Foreign Podicy - May 19, 2023 19:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 142 ratingsIsraelis are now celebrating 75 years of independence – 75 years of self-determination for the Jewish people in part of their ancient homeland which for centuries was ruled by foreign empires. There are not many nations that, as the late Charles Krauthammer used to point out, are “living in the ...
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