Year in review

Dec 19, 2024

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.