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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Tamara talks about Russia's intervention in Syria. Good luck with that. Shane discusses the U.S. and China's contemplation of a “cyber arms treaty.” Good luck with that too. And I talk about the New York...

Tired of hearing about the debate? So were we—before it even started. So we pretended it wasn't happening.

Donald Trump reveals that he doesn’t know the names of the heads of the world’s biggest terrorist organizations. Shane asks whether that disqualifies him to be commander-in-chief. Turns out killing Anwar...

Gen. David Petraeus has a new plan for fighting ISIS. Is it smart or is it totally nuts? Tamara talks about a new article by William McCants that takes us deep inside the mind and menace of Abu Bakr al-B...