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Rational Security: The "Goodbye to all That" Edition
This week on the podcast, we wrap up the year that was 2015. What were the most important stories of the year? And what’s the big story we’ll all be talking about in 2016? Plus, Tamara learns that rumors... -
Rational Security: The "Carpet Bombs and Chicken Hawks" Edition
This week on Rational Security, special guest Will McCants joins Shane and Tamara to figure out what ISIS must have thought about the Republican presidential candidates’ plans to carpet bomb them. We ask... -
Rational Security: The "Irrational Security" Edition
This week on the show, Susan Hennessey joins us again. Shane Harris talks about President Obama's effort to reassure the nation that ISIS is not winning. We discuss Donald Trump's different sort of plan ... -
Rational Security: The "Slippery Slope" Edition
It's a fun week on Rational Security. Shane and I both try our hands at singing. Tamara wisely refrains. Meanwhile, President Obama is sending 200 more special operations forces to Iraq to combat ISIS. ... -
Rational Security: The "Gobble, Gobble, Toil and Trouble" Edition
Our guest this week is Lawfare's new managing editor, Susan Hennessey, in her first podcast appearance after leaving a spooky federal agency. We discuss Turkey's shoot-down of a Russian jet that allegedl... -
Rational Security: The "Anybody Got Any Bright Ideas?" Edition
What do the ISIS attacks in Turkey, Egypt, Lebanon, and now France tell us about the group’s evolution and whether it’s changing strategy? Are they a sign of growing ambition or a sign of pressure as US ... -
Rational Security: The "Incubus of Plague" Edition
This week on the show, we go all CNN on you and talk plane crashes: Will we ever know how a Russian airliner fell from the sky in Egypt? Does it matter or does it only matter what Vladimir Putin thinks b... -
Rational Security: The "Did You Miss Us?" Edition
We missed a week on Rational Security because Shane, Tamara, and I were all out of town last week. Did you miss us? This week, we talk about President Obama's decision to send 50 Special Forces members i... -
Rational Security: The “This is Not Some Superpower Chessboard” Edition
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Rational Security: The "Fond Fair Wells" Edition
Tamara is in China, probably getting hacked by People's Liberation Army, so Quinta Jurecic joins Shane and me for the podcast this week. We talk about a new leak to the Intercept on drones that Shane rea... -
Rational Security: The "He Said, Xi Said" Edition
Cody makes a guest appearance on the show, and he, Shane and I discuss whether the Obama administration has outplayed China on cyber spying. The Taliban is on the march in Afghanistan. What does this mea... -
Rational Security: The "It's Putin's World and We Just Live In It" Edition
I missed this week's Rational Security taping, as an unfortunate result of a taekwondo sparring accident (the other guy is, alas, fine). But Shane and Tamara soldiered on without me. They talked Russian ...
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