Dec 19 2024 50 mins 46
We listen back on more than a dozen guests from conversations across 2024.
Guests (in order):
- Fabian Hinz, research fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies;
- Bruce Hoffman, senior fellow for counterterrorism and homeland security at the Council on Foreign Relations, and co-author of "God, Guns, and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America";
- Karolina Hird, analyst and Russia Deputy Team Lead at the Institute for the Study of War;
- Elliot Ackerman, co-author of "2054: A Novel";
- Mackenzie Eaglen, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where she works on defense strategy, defense budgets, and military readiness;
- Ankit Panda, Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace;
- Chris Blattman, economist, political scientist, and Ramalee E. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies at the University of Chicago, and author of the 2022 book, "Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace";
- Mick Ryan, retired Australian Army major general, strategist, and author of “White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan";
- Dmitri Alperovitch, chairman of the Silverado Policy Accelerator, a geopolitics think-tank in Washington, and author of “World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century";
- Sam Skove, former Defense One staff writer;
- Mark Montgomery, a retired U.S. Navy rear admiral, is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington and senior director of FDD's Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation;
- Peter Tamte, founder and CEO of Victura;
- And Brent Sadler, retired Navy captain and senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation.
