• Shield of the Republic

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Shield of the Republic

Auteur(s): The Bulwark
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  • Shield of the Republic is a Bulwark podcast co-sponsored by the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. We probe beyond the hive mind of Washington conventional wisdom on national security and foreign affairs.
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  • Deterrence is Cheaper Than War

    Deterrence is Cheaper Than War
    Dec 20 2024
    With Eliot traveling, Eric welcomes back prolific historian and author Hal Brands to the show to discuss his forthcoming book The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern World (New York: W.W. Norton, 2025) which will be published in mid-January. They discuss the ideas and careers of geopolitical thinkers Halford Mackinder, Alfred Thayer Mahan, and Nicholas Spykman whose views about the influence of geography on international affairs became enormously influential among political leaders of all stripes in the early to mid-Twentieth Century. They touch on the costs of deterrence versus the much higher costs of great power wars, the breakdown of the international trading system in the 1930s and how it presaged military conflict, why regional crises in the interwar period rapidly metastasized into the most costly global conflict in history and how our contemporary world resembles the world of 1940-1941. They also discuss the rise of China and the bipartisan consensus it has spawned on diagnosing our current international environment but has not yet led to a bipartisan execution of policies to remedy the situation. They also discuss the rise of geopolitical super predators in the 1930s, the evolution of "Fortress Eurasia" -- the emerging alliance among the PRC, Russia, Iran and North Korea, Senator Mitch McConnell's recent Foreign Affairs article arguing against retrenchment, and why it is hard to imagine a future conflict not becoming a global conflict today.

    Shield of the Republic will be taking a break for the holidays and will return in early January.

    The Eurasian Century: Hot Wars, Cold Wars, and the Making of the Modern World:
    https://a.co/d/2XQ7lWa

    The Price of American Retreat:
    https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/price-american-retreat-trump-mitch-mcconnell

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    54 min
  • A Catastrophic Blow to Putin

    A Catastrophic Blow to Putin
    Dec 12 2024
    Eric and Eliot discuss the rapidly unfolding events in Syria and examine the causes and consequences of the collapse of Bashar al Assad's regime in Syria. They discuss the big winners (Turkey, Israel, the Syrian people and to a lesser extent the U.S) and the big losers (notably Russia and especially Iran). They discuss the timing of the Hayat Tahrir al Sham offensive, how to interpret the claims of HTS leader abu Mohammed al Jolani that the group has moderated, the prospects for Russia maintaining its Khmeimim Air Base and its naval base at Tartus, as well as the future of Iranian national security policy. In particular, they discuss whether the Iranians will have incentives to sprint to a nuclear weapon or whether they will temporize and seek to embroil the incoming Trump administration in an endless negotiation over the nuclear program. They discuss the Biden Administration's efforts to polish its reputation in the aftermath of recent events and the waxing and waning of leadership reputations including former President Barack Obama and former German Chancellor Angela Merkel. They consider what effect events in Syria might have on Trump's approach to the war in Ukraine. They also touch on listener criticisms that calling for greater defense spending seems out of touch with today's American political scene. They consider the results of the recent Reagan National Defense Forum survey and the light those results shed on the question of public support for stronger national defense.

    Eliot's latest pieces in the Atlantic:
    https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/12/khamenei-iran-syria/680920/

    https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/12/european-troops-ukraine-war/680928/

    Eric & David Kramer's latest in Politico:
    https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/12/06/trump-ukraine-better-foreign-policy-00192415

    Reagan Foundation Study on Public Perception of Defense Spending:
    https://www.reaganfoundation.org/media/363274/rndf-survey-nov-2024-memo.pdf

    Financial Times Retrospectives on Angela Merkel:
    https://www.ft.com/content/0a538c85-27fb-400e-ae8b-f13fb6ce4e72

    https://www.ft.com/content/e82af5d9-32ea-444e-93e2-9e457d6a6796

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    1 h
  • Trump's Nightmare National Security Nominations

    Trump's Nightmare National Security Nominations
    Dec 5 2024
    Eric and Eliot return from Thanksgiving to discuss the Trump transition and its national security nominations so far. They talk about Kash Patel as FBI Director, the new allegations against Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth, as well as the nepotistic nominations of in laws Charles Kushner, a convicted felon, as Ambassador to France and Massad Boulos as Middle East advisor. They discuss whether or not to take any solace from the nomination of General (ret.) Keith Kellogg as Ukraine Peace negotiator and the pluses and minuses of the America First Institute peace plan that Kellogg co-authored with Fred Fleitz in April. They also touch on the prospective challenges to civil-military relations that are likely to emerge early in the Trump Administration with mass deportation and prospective purges of the JCS and the senior officer corps more broadly. They discuss a series of developments in Europe and the Middle East that have not received as much attention as they deserve given the focus on the transition in the US including the Presidential election in Romania which was subject to Russian interference and the potential election of a populist, NATO skeptic as President, the rising protests in Georgia that eerily echo what happened in Ukraine with the Revolution of Dignity in 2014 and finally the Syrian opposition offensive against the regime of Bashar al Assad and its capture of Aleppo, Syria's second largest city.

    Keith Kellogg and Ukraine:
    https://americafirstpolicy.com/issues/america-first-russia-ukraine

    https://www.kyivpost.com/analysis/42992

    Shield of the Republic is a Bulwark podcast co-sponsored by the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia.
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    58 min

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