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From wargames in Washington to bridges over the Baltics, 1990s L0pht hackers to 1950s nukes on the moon — here's a thread on our favorite #DefenseOneRadio podcasts of 2019: bit.ly/2tROfEl

In February we looked beyond South China Sea tensions to hear from @GregPoling, who told us "So far so far [China has] ridden roughshod over international law in the SCS and they’ve paid very little price for it.” buff.ly/2H4tR72

@GregPoling Also in February, we took a look at Zheng He voyages, Chinese military action films, and historical revisionism with @daicing, @NavalWarCollege's Andrew Wilson + more. buff.ly/2EhOGKV

@GregPoling @daicing @NavalWarCollege Then we pivoted to #AI and #Xinjiang, about which @He_Shumei told us, "I prefer to refer to what the Chinese Communist Party is doing as tech-enhanced authoritarianism — processes the CCP has been engaged in for decades being augmented through technology.” buff.ly/2tChEPM

@GregPoling @daicing @NavalWarCollege @He_Shumei Said @EBKania: "The ways #Xinjiang can be used as a laboratory of sorts is, I think, a dark view of what the future of #AI could be in the hands of governments with very authoritarian tendencies... I don’t think this will stop in Xinjiang.” defenseone.com/ideas/2019/02/…

@GregPoling @daicing @NavalWarCollege @He_Shumei @EBKania "Demands for openness in maritime Asia sent us across the Pacific in the first place," @GregPoling said. "So It cuts fundamentally at our presence in Asia if we're not gonna be there for an ally — sooner or later all the allies are gonna decide that we’re not worth bolstering."

@GregPoling @daicing @NavalWarCollege @He_Shumei @EBKania Then we turned to Russia, about which @mikercarpenter reminded us: "No other country in the world wants to undo the international order and the rules of the game the way Russia does." buff.ly/2INJaUE

@GregPoling @daicing @NavalWarCollege @He_Shumei @EBKania @mikercarpenter Added @MarkGaleotti: "Russia is a country that does pose a challenge to us; But it’s a country with an economy smaller than that of Texas, a country with very little soft power; not a peer state except in certain limited military terms." buff.ly/2INJaUE

@GregPoling @daicing @NavalWarCollege @He_Shumei @EBKania @mikercarpenter @MarkGaleotti Then to climate change, where Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Ben Santer implored, "We need a respectful responsible discussion in Washington, D.C., on the reality and seriousness of human-caused #ClimateChange. We don’t have that." buff.ly/2LtGVnB

@GregPoling @daicing @NavalWarCollege @He_Shumei @EBKania @mikercarpenter @MarkGaleotti Added @dwtitley: "The chances, as we change the climate, of bad things happening — be it from storm surge, from freshwater, from wild fire, from excessive heat leading to excessive black flag days — all of these things are becoming more likely as our climate changes."

@GregPoling @daicing @NavalWarCollege @He_Shumei @EBKania @mikercarpenter @MarkGaleotti @dwtitley In April, we reviewed the U.S. military's work in Somalia, a country which @PDWilliamsGWU told us "is a contested state in a contested nation... There’s a lot of people with guns in south central Somalia. But they don't have allegiance to a central state." defenseone.com/ideas/2019/04/…

@GregPoling @daicing @NavalWarCollege @He_Shumei @EBKania @mikercarpenter @MarkGaleotti @dwtitley @PDWilliamsGWU In May, we explored the U.S. public’s changing awareness of nuclear weapons, and efforts to get young people to engage—w/ @jamiewithorne, @Erin_Conn17 + @RANDCorporation's Ed Geist, author of "Armageddon Insurance: Civil Defense in the US and Soviet Union" buff.ly/2Yfq7FR

@GregPoling @daicing @NavalWarCollege @He_Shumei @EBKania @mikercarpenter @MarkGaleotti @dwtitley @PDWilliamsGWU @jamiewithorne @Erin_Conn17 @RANDCorporation In June, @BelferCenter's Ash Carter dropped by to talk about China today, the Soviet Union of yesteryear — as well as POTUS45, the old SDI missile defense program from the 80s, and a lot more.
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@GregPoling @daicing @NavalWarCollege @He_Shumei @EBKania @mikercarpenter @MarkGaleotti @dwtitley @PDWilliamsGWU @jamiewithorne @Erin_Conn17 @RANDCorporation @BelferCenter In July, we travelled to Paris and asked what it was like to live in ISIS-occupied Mosul, Iraq, with Omar Mohammed of @MosulEye. buff.ly/2KSMIFm

@GregPoling @daicing @NavalWarCollege @He_Shumei @EBKania @mikercarpenter @MarkGaleotti @dwtitley @PDWilliamsGWU @jamiewithorne @Erin_Conn17 @RANDCorporation @BelferCenter @MosulEye Also in July, we learned “It is possible to bring down a democracy by just finding ways for people to lose faith in it," @CNA_org's Dawn Thomas told us in our 3-part cyberwarfare series. buff.ly/2jEvP5n

@GregPoling @daicing @NavalWarCollege @He_Shumei @EBKania @mikercarpenter @MarkGaleotti @dwtitley @PDWilliamsGWU @jamiewithorne @Erin_Conn17 @RANDCorporation @BelferCenter @MosulEye @CNA_org Said @MattWyckhouse of @FiniteStateInc: "The software development practices at #Huawei are far below industry standards from a security standpoint and a quality standpoint... this is consistent across their entire product line." defenseone.com/ideas/2019/07/…

@GregPoling @daicing @NavalWarCollege @He_Shumei @EBKania @mikercarpenter @MarkGaleotti @dwtitley @PDWilliamsGWU @jamiewithorne @Erin_Conn17 @RANDCorporation @BelferCenter @MosulEye @CNA_org @MattWyckhouse @FiniteStateInc "The Huawei debate, for me, is actually a little bit misguided," said @DAlperovitch, "because it really is not about the company. It is about the countries that are adversaries..."

@GregPoling @daicing @NavalWarCollege @He_Shumei @EBKania @mikercarpenter @MarkGaleotti @dwtitley @PDWilliamsGWU @jamiewithorne @Erin_Conn17 @RANDCorporation @BelferCenter @MosulEye @CNA_org @MattWyckhouse @FiniteStateInc @DAlperovitch "...And we do not buy tanks and aircraft carriers from Russia, China, Iran or North Korea for very good reasons. So I do not know why we would consider buying key infrastructure in the digital domain from those countries regardless of who the company is." buff.ly/2JKoWcW

@GregPoling @daicing @NavalWarCollege @He_Shumei @EBKania @mikercarpenter @MarkGaleotti @dwtitley @PDWilliamsGWU @jamiewithorne @Erin_Conn17 @RANDCorporation @BelferCenter @MosulEye @CNA_org @MattWyckhouse @FiniteStateInc @DAlperovitch "This digital transformation is at a pace that I don’t know that in history we’ve seen anything that would match the changes that are coming at us," said B. Edwin Wilson, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy. defenseone.com/ideas/2019/07/…

@GregPoling @daicing @NavalWarCollege @He_Shumei @EBKania @mikercarpenter @MarkGaleotti @dwtitley @PDWilliamsGWU @jamiewithorne @Erin_Conn17 @RANDCorporation @BelferCenter @MosulEye @CNA_org @MattWyckhouse @FiniteStateInc @DAlperovitch Wilson, cont. “China is the bellwether in this case. Russia as well. Both have the technology wherewithal as well as the capacity to put these technologies to use in a significant way.” (More from that interview w/ @DefTechPat here: )

@GregPoling @daicing @NavalWarCollege @He_Shumei @EBKania @mikercarpenter @MarkGaleotti @dwtitley @PDWilliamsGWU @jamiewithorne @Erin_Conn17 @RANDCorporation @BelferCenter @MosulEye @CNA_org @MattWyckhouse @FiniteStateInc @DAlperovitch @DefTechPat Here's Paul Gagliardi of @security_score, on the 2020 U.S. presidential election: “I think it’s very telling when cybersecurity experts, myself included, are suggesting that virtual voting booths should not be encouraged."

defenseone.com/ideas/2019/07/…

@GregPoling @daicing @NavalWarCollege @He_Shumei @EBKania @mikercarpenter @MarkGaleotti @dwtitley @PDWilliamsGWU @jamiewithorne @Erin_Conn17 @RANDCorporation @BelferCenter @MosulEye @CNA_org @MattWyckhouse @FiniteStateInc @DAlperovitch @DefTechPat @security_score Then in August, we discussed the lack of media coverage of civilian casualties in the war against ISIS — with @alexadobrien and @chrisjwoods.
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@GregPoling @daicing @NavalWarCollege @He_Shumei @EBKania @mikercarpenter @MarkGaleotti @dwtitley @PDWilliamsGWU @jamiewithorne @Erin_Conn17 @RANDCorporation @BelferCenter @MosulEye @CNA_org @MattWyckhouse @FiniteStateInc @DAlperovitch @DefTechPat @security_score @alexadobrien @chrisjwoods What are the core goals of "Great Power Competition" between the U.S. and #China?

@Ali_Wyne explained in one of our most-listened-to episodes of the year, from August: buff.ly/2YKR4Fi (🙏, Ali!)

@GregPoling @daicing @NavalWarCollege @He_Shumei @EBKania @mikercarpenter @MarkGaleotti @dwtitley @PDWilliamsGWU @jamiewithorne @Erin_Conn17 @RANDCorporation @BelferCenter @MosulEye @CNA_org @MattWyckhouse @FiniteStateInc @DAlperovitch @DefTechPat @security_score @alexadobrien @chrisjwoods @Ali_Wyne "In many respects, historians may look back at [President Trump] almost as the great unifier," said @intelhistorian, author of "Nuking the Moon" and the forthcoming "Nuclear Spies: America's Atomic Intelligence Operation against Hitler and Stalin." stitcher.com/podcast/defens…

@GregPoling @daicing @NavalWarCollege @He_Shumei @EBKania @mikercarpenter @MarkGaleotti @dwtitley @PDWilliamsGWU @jamiewithorne @Erin_Conn17 @RANDCorporation @BelferCenter @MosulEye @CNA_org @MattWyckhouse @FiniteStateInc @DAlperovitch @DefTechPat @security_score @alexadobrien @chrisjwoods @Ali_Wyne @intelhistorian Also in September, we discussed 10 trips to Afghanistan with author Kevin Maurer (@ScribblerSix).
He explained what's different now, what's not, and how some soldiers derive meaning from the longest war in American history. buff.ly/2mMGtYQ

@GregPoling @daicing @NavalWarCollege @He_Shumei @EBKania @mikercarpenter @MarkGaleotti @dwtitley @PDWilliamsGWU @jamiewithorne @Erin_Conn17 @RANDCorporation @BelferCenter @MosulEye @CNA_org @MattWyckhouse @FiniteStateInc @DAlperovitch @DefTechPat @security_score @alexadobrien @chrisjwoods @Ali_Wyne @intelhistorian @ScribblerSix In October, President Trump ordered the U.S. military's abrupt exit from Syria. So we spoke to @dstroul, @Charles_Lister and @natsecdalton to put the new changes in perspective: defenseone.com/ideas/2019/10/…

@GregPoling @daicing @NavalWarCollege @He_Shumei @EBKania @mikercarpenter @MarkGaleotti @dwtitley @PDWilliamsGWU @jamiewithorne @Erin_Conn17 @RANDCorporation @BelferCenter @MosulEye @CNA_org @MattWyckhouse @FiniteStateInc @DAlperovitch @DefTechPat @security_score @alexadobrien @chrisjwoods @Ali_Wyne @intelhistorian @ScribblerSix @dstroul @Charles_Lister @natsecdalton “Nobody at this point thinks that the Trump administration is going to put a credible threat of military force on the table for anything," @dstroul told us about the U.S. military in the Middle East in late 2019. buff.ly/32xdjNF

@GregPoling @daicing @NavalWarCollege @He_Shumei @EBKania @mikercarpenter @MarkGaleotti @dwtitley @PDWilliamsGWU @jamiewithorne @Erin_Conn17 @RANDCorporation @BelferCenter @MosulEye @CNA_org @MattWyckhouse @FiniteStateInc @DAlperovitch @DefTechPat @security_score @alexadobrien @chrisjwoods @Ali_Wyne @intelhistorian @ScribblerSix @dstroul @Charles_Lister @natsecdalton "There is a very clear consensus now that there is no desire to enter into a working relationship with the U.S. government on any strategic issue,” said @Charles_Lister, “b/c there is zero faith that those relationships or agreements could still be standing in six months time.”

@GregPoling @daicing @NavalWarCollege @He_Shumei @EBKania @mikercarpenter @MarkGaleotti @dwtitley @PDWilliamsGWU @jamiewithorne @Erin_Conn17 @RANDCorporation @BelferCenter @MosulEye @CNA_org @MattWyckhouse @FiniteStateInc @DAlperovitch @DefTechPat @security_score @alexadobrien @chrisjwoods @Ali_Wyne @intelhistorian @ScribblerSix @dstroul @Charles_Lister @natsecdalton Later in October, we explored a safe and cheap way to figure out who might win a big war: #wargames.

And the episode would have been impossible without @StaciePettyjohn,
@becca_wasser and @elliebartels, as well as
@markherman54 and more.

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@GregPoling @daicing @NavalWarCollege @He_Shumei @EBKania @mikercarpenter @MarkGaleotti @dwtitley @PDWilliamsGWU @jamiewithorne @Erin_Conn17 @RANDCorporation @BelferCenter @MosulEye @CNA_org @MattWyckhouse @FiniteStateInc @DAlperovitch @DefTechPat @security_score @alexadobrien @chrisjwoods @Ali_Wyne @intelhistorian @ScribblerSix @dstroul @Charles_Lister @natsecdalton @StaciePettyjohn @becca_wasser @elliebartels @markherman54 We then flew across the Atlantic to Denmark, where we looked at some of the ways Europe is changing amid various pressures from #Russia, #China and the @NATO alliance — featuring Chris Skaluba of the @AtlanticCouncil, and @DaliborRohac of @AEI. buff.ly/373Asd6

@GregPoling @daicing @NavalWarCollege @He_Shumei @EBKania @mikercarpenter @MarkGaleotti @dwtitley @PDWilliamsGWU @jamiewithorne @Erin_Conn17 @RANDCorporation @BelferCenter @MosulEye @CNA_org @MattWyckhouse @FiniteStateInc @DAlperovitch @DefTechPat @security_score @alexadobrien @chrisjwoods @Ali_Wyne @intelhistorian @ScribblerSix @dstroul @Charles_Lister @natsecdalton @StaciePettyjohn @becca_wasser @elliebartels @markherman54 @NATO @AtlanticCouncil @DaliborRohac @AEI And we ended with a series of conversations on disinformation and influence operations ahead of the 2020 U.S. election — with @apolyakova, @selectedwisdom and @john_sipher...

@GregPoling @daicing @NavalWarCollege @He_Shumei @EBKania @mikercarpenter @MarkGaleotti @dwtitley @PDWilliamsGWU @jamiewithorne @Erin_Conn17 @RANDCorporation @BelferCenter @MosulEye @CNA_org @MattWyckhouse @FiniteStateInc @DAlperovitch @DefTechPat @security_score @alexadobrien @chrisjwoods @Ali_Wyne @intelhistorian @ScribblerSix @dstroul @Charles_Lister @natsecdalton @StaciePettyjohn @becca_wasser @elliebartels @markherman54 @NATO @AtlanticCouncil @DaliborRohac @AEI @apolyakova @selectedwisdom @john_sipher One thing we learned: “[U.S.] politicians think there’s more than one version of the truth, and that they can all have their own truths; and that really speaks to the way Russia has changed the way we think about information,” said @selectedwisdom.

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@GregPoling @daicing @NavalWarCollege @He_Shumei @EBKania @mikercarpenter @MarkGaleotti @dwtitley @PDWilliamsGWU @jamiewithorne @Erin_Conn17 @RANDCorporation @BelferCenter @MosulEye @CNA_org @MattWyckhouse @FiniteStateInc @DAlperovitch @DefTechPat @security_score @alexadobrien @chrisjwoods @Ali_Wyne @intelhistorian @ScribblerSix @dstroul @Charles_Lister @natsecdalton @StaciePettyjohn @becca_wasser @elliebartels @markherman54 @NATO @AtlanticCouncil @DaliborRohac @AEI @apolyakova @selectedwisdom @john_sipher Thanks for listening in 2019!
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