Foreign Podicy

Nov 29 2024 240 ep. 51 mins 1.2k
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A national security and foreign policy podcast from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD).

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The Military America Needs

Nov 29 2024 64 mins  
Last week, President Biden finally (belatedly) allowed Ukraine to use U.S.-supplied long-range missiles to strike military targets in Russia. This made Vladimir Putin very angry. Some argue that we should be careful not to anger or provoke Putin and that if he issues threats, then we had better back down. But such weakness only emboldens Putin and his axis of aggressors in Tehran,

Israel Under Attack from Turtle Bay and The Hague

Nov 22 2024 51 mins  
The two most recent attacks on Israel did not take place in the Middle East. The first was in Turtle Bay at the United Nations headquarters in New York. The second was in The Hague where the International Criminal Court is located — and about 40 miles from Amsterdam where Israeli soccer fans were violently assaulted earlier this month. The ICC has issued arrest warrants for Israe

Trump Begins to Build His Team

Nov 15 2024 82 mins  
President Trump – now also President-elect Trump – has named the team he wants to advise him on foreign policy and national security. How will they fare in facing challenges like the Islamic Republic of Iran's war on Israel (and America), Russia's war against Ukraine, and the threat from China’s Communist rulers? Host Cliff May is joined by his FDD colleague Richard Goldberg

Iran, the Day After

Nov 08 2024 44 mins  
45 years ago this month, followers of the Ayatollah Khomeini seized the American embassy in Tehran and held 52 Americans hostage. Last weekend, regime supporters in Tehran celebrated that blatant violation of the most basic international law by rallying outside what used to be the embassy building. Over the decades since, the threats posed by the regime that came to power, the mis

Back from the Front: Adm. Mark Montgomery’s Ukraine War Report

Nov 01 2024 53 mins  
FDD’s RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery just returned from Ukraine where he was on a mission to support and train the Ukrainian general staff in planning and executing integrated joint operations and, secondarily, to get a prioritized assessment of what the Ukrainians need to retain their independence, to prevent being re-colonized by Russia, to defend their homes and families. He joi

Decolonize Lebanon

Oct 25 2024 63 mins  
On Oct. 8, 2023, one day after Hamas terrorists invaded southern Israel and carried out the largest mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust, Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon began firing missiles at Israel, and the attacks have continued ever since. Last month, Israelis defended themselves against Hezbollah in new ways, including by exploding thousands of pagers worn on the belts

Yahya Sinwar Rests in Pieces

Oct 17 2024 50 mins  
Yahya Sinwar is dead. He was the leader of Hamas, the architect of the October 7 attack on Israel — the largest massacre of Jewish people since the Holocaust. He has the blood of many Americans on his hands, too, and was designated as a terrorist by the U.S.
 For Israel, this is a significant battle won in a long and multi-front war. What’s next? Host Cliff May discusses with

McMaster and Bowman on the Axis of Aggressors and Cold War 2.0

Oct 11 2024 58 mins  
Gen. H.R. McMaster has written a memoir about his action-packed 13 months serving as national security advisor to the 45th president of the United States. It’s titled “At War With Ourselves,” and it focuses on the widening divisions among Americans — divisions not just between the major political parties but very much within them. H.R. is an historian as well as a sold

Israel’s Year of Battles Against Tehran’s Proxies and Pawns

Oct 05 2024 57 mins  

Two Fronts in The War Against the West

Sep 27 2024 41 mins  
America and other free nations are threatened by enemies – an axis of tyrants, of aggressors, of authoritarians, of revanchists – all those terms are apt. But the response of Western leaders continues to be woefully inadequate. The most imminently endangered democratic societies: Ukraine and Israel. Host Cliff May discusses with Bernard Henri-Lévy and Oleksandra Matviichuk