General Kenneth F. McKenzie, USMC, retired as the fourteenth commander of U.S. Central Command in 2022 and is the author of The Melting Point: High Command and War in the 21st Century (https://a.co/d/a2RmIDK). He joins the show to talk about the strategic significance of the Middle East.
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• 01:16 Introduction
• 01:38 The Citadel
• 04:15 The humanities
• 10:00 Central Command
• 13:43 Thinking globally
• 17:53 Iran pushes back
• 23:05 Pursuing peace
• 26:15 Afghanistan
• 32:01 Collapse
• 37:58 A regional war
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