At the Water's Edge
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The Pentagon Is Losing Its Top Strategists During the Iran War
The Pentagon Is Losing Its Top Strategists During the Iran War
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The At the Water’s Edge Podcast explores national security and geopolitics from an insider’s perspective, looking at how national power, industrial policy, diplomacy, and military might shape our world and America’s place in it.
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- The Pentagon Is Losing Its Top Strategists During the Iran War · 17 minThe Pentagon just fired its top strategist in the middle of a war with Iran, and no replacement has been named. What could go wrong?Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has removed Lt…
- The Iran Mistake We Made Before the First Bomb | Ryan McBeth · 55 minIs there a way to end the war with Iran that doesn't totally suck? And where's the line between an online grifter and a foreign state running influence operations against…
- The End of the Netanyahu Era? Why Israel is at a Turning Point · 21 minIsrael votes on October 27 in its first national election since October 7, 2023, and the final polls show no one with a clear path to power. Gadi Eisenkot's opposition leads…
- Why an IRANIAN INVASION Would BACKFIRE | Robert Pape · 36 minShips keep getting hit in the Strait of Hormuz, Egypt is weighing whether to send troops to Saudi Arabia, and the IRGC is now threatening to invade neighboring countries if the…
- The Iran War Could Push Africa Toward Collapse | Fidel Amakye Owusu · 51 minHow is the war over the Strait of Hormuz reaching Africa? Ghanaian security and geopolitical analyst Fidel Amakye Owusu returns to explain how the Iran war is driving fuel…
- Saudi Arabia's Nightmare: The Reality of the Houthi Missile Threat · 12 minHouthi missiles are hitting Riyadh’s main airport, and it’s turning into Saudi Arabia’s worst-case scenario. One strike killed at least 12 people and injured around 300. Flights…
- France, Iran, and the Road to World War III: The Real Risk | Robert Pape · 43 minTen ships hit in the Strait of Hormuz in a single week, the most of the entire war. Houthi missiles shut down Riyadh's airport in the largest set of attacks in Saudi Arabia's…
- U.S. Brigades Last 24 Hours Against Ukraine’s Drones | MG Duane Miller · 50 minWhat happens when a U.S. brigade trains against Ukraine's drone forces? They usually have to reset the exercise within 24 hours. Major General Duane Miller, until recently Deputy…
- The Rise of the Mecca Alliance: Turkey, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia's Game Plan · 26 minFifty-nine days after it was signed, the Mecca Pact has been activated. Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey have agreed to send forces to defend the kingdom against the Houthis…
- The Most Dangerous Weeks of the Iran War Are Here | Robert Pape · 34 minWe’re in the most dangerous weeks of the Iran war since March, and the midterms are the reason. Professor Robert Pape returns to explain the wicked incentives pushing President…
- The Truth About Veteran Support Systems and How to Fix Them · 29 minVeterans die by suicide at a rate 72% higher than their civilian peers, and women veterans at a rate 101% higher. Lyndsay Tkach, Wounded Warrior Project's Director of Mental and…
- Is Iran's War Spreading? Three Incidents, One Dangerous Pattern · 25 minMasked men with vans full of fuel outside the British base that launched B-52s against Iran. A FlyDubai co-pilot stabbing his captain on a flight to Tel Aviv. A drone knocking…
- Trump needs a "LAST CHAPTER" in Iran | Trita Parsi · 30 minTrita Parsi argues Trump is looking for a "last chapter" in Iran, an ending that makes the whole war look worth it, and that diplomacy won't give him one. Iran's president flew…
- Trump is TRAPPED in Iran's "DIPLOMACY" | Robert Pape · 29 minIran offered Trump a seven-day path to end the war. Robert Pape explains why taking it or refusing it both hurt him before the midterms. Iran's president came to the UN in New…
- Why Our Special Forces Are Losing the Silent Battle · 1 h 5 minJoe Stabley is a Special Forces medic turned physician assistant — one of the most demanding career fields in the military, followed by a doctorate-adjacent civilian one. By any…
- The Real Reason Saudi Arabia Is Buying 48 F-35s · 16 minFor more than a decade, Israel has been the only country in the Middle East flying a fifth-generation stealth fighter. That's about to change. The Trump administration has…
- When the Military is Pulled into Politics | Robert Pape · 31 minThe midterms are five and a half weeks away, and Professor Robert Pape says most of the warnings are aimed at the wrong window. Political violence around elections isn't mainly…
- The Invisible War: How Gray Zone Attacks Work | fmr. NSC director F. David Diaz · 58 minSabotage. Arson. Drone swarms over critical infrastructure. Cyber intrusions into American water utilities. Gray zone attacks are built to look like accidents, fall between…
- She Didn't Look Like a Veteran in Crisis. That Was the Problem. · 30 minSam Hargrove spent years being known for her smile — while privately battling a rage she couldn't explain, seven rounds of anger management, and a night she nearly drove her car…
- What Happens If the US Uses a Nuclear Weapon on Iran | Robert Pape · 58 minUniversity of Chicago professor Robert Pape (Bombing to Win, The Escalation Trap) is back for his weekly read on the U.S.-Iran conflict — and this one goes to a darker place than…
