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Irregular Warfare PodcastWinning Without Fighting: Economic Power and Information Warfare (Part 2)Episode 133 is the second installment in our two-part series exploring how the United States can leverage non-kinetic instruments of power to compete effectively without resorting to military force.
Building on our previous discussion, our guests examine America's strategic blind spots in treating economics and information as support tools rather than primary domains of competition. They discuss the integration challenges across U.S. government agencies, highlighting how autocratic adversaries coordinate their instruments of power more effectively while the U.S. struggles with inter-agency dysfunction. The conversation explores the military's evolving role in peacetime competition, with insights from Afghanistan...
2025-08-2238 min
Talking StrategyS5E7: H.R. McMaster on National Security Strategy MakingH.R. McMaster shares his extensive experience of strategy-making and strategic leadership as a military officer, academic and former United States' national security advisor. 'The Iconoclast General', H.R. McMaster has a distinguished record serving his country. Commissioned from West Point into the armoured cavalry, he retired as a Lieutenant General after thirty-four years' service, including operational service in Iraq and Afghanistan. His success in fighting counter-insurgency campaigns saw him involved in the development of the United States' Army and Marine Corps' counter-insurgency field manual (FM3-24). One of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people in April 2014, he...
2025-01-0739 min
The TridentEpisode 2: The Edge of Tomorrow: Analyzing Emerging IW TrendsGuests LTG David Barno and Dr. Nora Bensahel join host Col. Dave Brown and co-host Dr. Timothy Hoyt to analyze emerging trends in the character of Irregular Warfare (IW), as seen in the on-going conflicts in both Ukraine and Gaza.Article: Learning from Real Wars: Gaza and Ukraine - War on the Rocks, D. Barno & N. Bensahel, War on the Rocks, Dec 6, 2023.------------------------Guests:Lieutenant General David W. Barno, USA (Retired): Professor of Practice at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He is also a contributing editor and columni...
2024-02-151h 00
Top Full Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsAdaptation under Fire: How Militaries Change in Wartime by Nora Bensahel, Lt. General David BarnoPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/539826 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Adaptation under Fire: How Militaries Change in Wartime Author: Nora Bensahel, Lt. General David Barno Narrator: Joe Barrett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 15 minutes Release date: September 28, 2021 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: Every military must prepare for future wars despite not really knowing the shape such wars will ultimately take. In the face of such great uncertainty, militaries must be able to adapt rapidly in order to win. Adaptation under Fire identifies the characteristics that make militaries more adaptable, illustrated through historical examples and the recent...
2021-09-2830 min
New Books in National SecurityAn interview with David Barno and Nora BensahelFew human enterprises are as complex, dynamic, and unpredictable as war. Armed conflict substitutes the relatively ordered reality of peace with the undeniably chaotic reality of combat. Militaries, by design, seek to make sense of and prepare for that chaos. And as long as there have been organized militaries, there have been military officers, theorists, and observers, like Ardant du Pique or B.H. Liddell Hart, who sought to predict the fundamental nature of the next war. But as Lieutenant General David Barno and Dr. Nora Bensahel observe in Adaptation Under Fire: How Militaries Change in Wartime (Oxford University Pr...
2021-01-0859 min
The Dead Prussian PodcastEpisode 97 - On Adaptation Under Fire | The Dead Prussian PodcastIn this episode, Mick chats with Dr Nora Bensahel and Lieutenant General (retired) David Barno their new book recently published, Adaptation Under Fire. They discuss how militaries change during wartime. Nora and David give their answers to the final question. Become a member of our social network, the #TDPCommunity, to access bonus content from this episode. You can also grab a book & crack on here.
2020-09-1458 min
Sicherheitshalber#22 LIVE Iran+USA=WWIII? | Deutsch-französisches Milliardenprojekt "Kampfflugzeug FCAS"“Sicherheitshalber” ist der Podcast zur sicherheitspolitischen Lage in Deutschland, Europa und der Welt. In Folge 22 sprechen Thomas Wiegold, Ulrike Franke, Frank Sauer und Carlo Masala - erstmals live und vor großem Publikum im Humboldt-Saal in der Urania Berlin - über die Tötung Qasem Soleimanis per US-Drohnenschlag und die sich daraus ergebenden Konsequenzen für die Beziehungen zwischen den USA und dem Iran, das Kriegsbild der Zukunft, das Völkerrecht und die iranischen Nuklearambitionen. Als zweites diskutieren die vier Podcaster über das “Future Combat Air System”, eine, um einen Anglizismus zu vermeiden, “fliegende Kampfwolke”, die Deutschland, Frankreich und Spanien bis 2040 gemeinsam...
2020-01-281h 17
The Common Thread PodcastNora Bensahel — Washington DC SeriesSee background information at www.bucommonthread.com/washington-dc. Nora Bensahel is a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at American University. She is an expert in defense policy, military operations and force structure. She has also held positions at RAND Corp. and Center for New American Progress. She frequently co-writes a column with General David Barno, Strategic Outpost, for the War on the Rocks blog. In this episode we discuss the role of women in the military and the existing impediments to leadership roles. We go on to discuss veterans, the future of warfare and touch on cybersecurity.
2017-10-3158 min
The Common Thread PodcastNora Bensahel — Washington DC SeriesSee background information at www.commonthreadpodcast.com/washington-dc. Nora Bensahel is a Distinguished Scholar in Residence at American University. She is an expert in defense policy, military operations and force structure. She has also held positions at RAND Corp. and Center for New American Progress. She frequently co-writes a column with General David Barno, Strategic Outpost, for the War on the Rocks blog. In this episode we discuss the role of women in the military and the existing impediments to leadership roles. We go on to discuss veterans, the future of warfare and touch on cybersecurity.
2017-10-3158 min