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Retired Navy Capt. Gene Moran joins the show to talk about the changing nature of the defense industry and what the Defense Department needs to do to revamp its contracting and acquisition processes.
Dean Cheng, senior advisor to the China program at the U.S. Institute of Peace, joins the show to discuss China's space program, its military strategy in space, and whether it could beat the U.S. in the race to get to Mars.
Stephen Dinan joins the show to break down all of the president's executive orders on illegal immigration.
Rand Waldron, vice president of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure product development, joins the show to talk about the impact of AI on the military and intelligence community, the future of major U.S. government cloud contracts, and much more.
Michael Johns, senior vice president of the company Kratos, joins the show to discuss U.S. hypersonic weapons development and whether the nation is still lagging behind China and Russia.
Retired Adm. Mark Montgomery joins the show to break down the key foreign policy priorities for the incoming Trump administration, including the need for an overhaul of U.S. homeland missile defense.
Bill Woolf, president and CEO of the Space Force Association, joins the show to discuss U.S.-China space competition and the interplay between the Pentagon and private industry in space.
Steve Blank, co-founder of the Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation at Stanford University, joins the show to talk about U.S.-China military industrial competition and much more.
Trey Coleman joins the show to discuss how the military should use AI and whether Mr. Trump's proposed Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, will call for huge cuts inside the Pentagon.
Rep. Nancy Mace joins the show to discuss whether the federal government is hiding the truth about UFOs and if adversaries such as China or Russia could be operating cutting-edge drone surveillance programs in American skies.
Washington Times Asia Editor Andrew Salmon joins the show to talk about North Korean troops fighting alongside the Russian army in Ukraine.
Longtime U.S. diplomat Gerald Feierstein joins the show to talk about the American military campaign in Yemen, the "sportswashing" phenomenon, and the central role that Saudi Arabia will play in the Trump administration's Middle East policy.
Former Pentagon official Jim Townsend joins the show to talk about how the Trump victory is playing across Europe and what it means for the future of the Ukraine-Russia war.
Andrew Payne, a lecturer in foreign policy and security at City St George's, University of London, joins the show to discuss a new wave of potential U.S. "forever wars."
Washington Times contributor Seth Frantzman joins the show to talk about Israel's fight against Iran and its proxies, Benjamin Netanyahu's political future, and how Jerusalem views the Axis of Authoritarians.
Clifford D. May, founder and president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, joins the show to break down the growing strength and size of the global Axis of Authoritarians.
Journalist Guillaume Ptak joins the show from the frontlines of the Russia-Ukraine war and gives his take on whether Ukrainians would prefer Kamala Harris or Donald Trump as the next U.S. president.
