This week on Rational Security: We speculate wildly on how China’s economic free fall could affect U.S. national security? What does international law have to say about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? And ...

The Rational Security team is back in in action this week. Shane is back from Maine. I'm back from Israel. And Tamara is back from not being away. On this week's show, the top ISIS fighter in U.S. custod...

On this week's episode, Shane abandons Tamara and me and goes on vacation. His empty chair is filled by Dan Byman, who brings a large Yemeni dagger and a National Counterterrorism Center Calendar, which ...

In my humble opinion, this is the best episode yet of Rational Security. If you've never listened to it before, check this one out. Shane, Tamara, and I discuss whether notorious Taliban leader Mullah Om...

This week on the show, Shane and I are abandoned by Tamara, who has run off to the Aspen Security Forum—to which neither of us were invited. So we bring back special guest Wells Bennett, and invite Lawfa...

This week on Rational Security, FBI Director James Comey goes to Capitol Hill to talk about “going dark,” and the gang discusses his reception in two Senate committees. Former officials are expressing co...

This week on Rational Security, senators call for hearings on domestic terrorism in the wake of the Charleston shootings. Do we need a new National Commission on the War on Terrorism? And a cat fight bet...

This week on Rational Security, Kori Schake of the Hoover Institution joins us to discuss whether the shooting of nine people in Charleston, SC, was an act of terrorism, what happens now that Chinese spi...

It isn't every day that Iranian spies try to recruit you, so it's a special edition of Rational Security, one in which a front group for the Iranian intelligence services make a play for Shane Harris. If...

Tamara is still away, so this week's Rational Security postcast featured special guest Nancy Yousseff of the Daily Beast. She joined Shane and me for a discussion of the USA Freedom Act's passage, Sheldo...