Download Episode. Scott interviews Peter Van Buren to talk through the risk of a nuclear detonation related to the war in Ukraine. Both Scott and Van Buren think the use of nuclear weapons is unlikely, but they dig into the differences in their views of the...
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DPRK Responds to South Korean War Games with Artillery Barrage Into Sea
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 20, 2022 | News
Seoul kicked off annual war games on Monday, prompting Pyongyang to fire over 200 artillery rounds toward the South’s maritime border in retaliation. American forces are taking part in the military exercises.

Macron: France Won’t Respond to a Nuclear Strike on Ukraine With Nuclear Weapons
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 16, 2022 | News
French President Emmanuel Macron answered questions about Paris’s nuclear weapons policy in a Wednesday television interview. He indicated that Moscow detonating a nuclear weapon in Ukraine would not cause Paris to use its nukes. Macron is facing criticism for his remarks.

News Roundup 10/16/2022
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 16, 2022 | News Roundup
Russia A Russian Security Council official said Thursday that Ukraine joining NATO would guarantee World War III when commenting on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s recent attempt to join the alliance. AWC The Kremlin said that Russia’s goals in Ukraine have...
NATO Set To Kick Off Nuclear War Games
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 15, 2022 | News
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is set to begin its annual military drills in preparation for nuclear war. American B-52 bombers will be joined by advanced aircraft from other alliance members as they simulate a war of annihilation with Russia.
North Korea Test Fires Long-Range, Nuclear-Capable Cruise Missiles
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 12, 2022 | News
Pyongyang claimed to take another step forward with its nuclear weapons program on Wednesday. North Korean state media reported Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un oversaw the test of two long-range cruise missiles. Pyongyang says the missiles could carry nuclear warheads.
We Need Beauty in Economics, and in the World
by Jeff Deist | Oct 12, 2022 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
The architect Frank Lloyd Wright played an important role in the design of this beautiful desert resort. I’m sure I’m not the only person here tonight who was introduced to his work through reading Ayn Rand. His touches are plainly visible in the stonework, wooden...
NATO to Hold Nuclear Exercise Despite Tensions With Russia
by Dave DeCamp | Oct 12, 2022 | News
NATO plans to hold nuclear exercises next week despite the soaring tensions with Russia that have led to President Biden warning of the risk of nuclear “armageddon.”
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Ep 013 “End of an Era: The Infantry Folds Its Colors”
New WarNotes Podcast episode is live Monday 17 February 2025. The age of the infantry is over after a thousands-year long reign in human warfare and conflict. The next 75 years in the 21st century will put paid to an august and enduring institution in human conflict....
Finding Faith w/Josh Childress
Coincidence isn’t a thing, but synchronicity is. You never know why you’re put in somebody’s life.
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A declaration of the University of the Intuitively Obvious. Spicy times ahead. My Substack Email me at cgpodcast@pm.me
We’re Not One Of Them. We’re One Of You.
The life of a state-intellectual is charmed. They get a cushy job at a think tank funded by weapons manufacturers, the Pentagon, USAID, and foreign governments. They get invited on power faction media and platformed as essential thinkers. They get professorships at...
US Hypersonics Off to Stuttering Start (Again)
This is part of the "prompt strike" initiative trying to increase the speed of delivery of munitions operationally. It took two years of delays to have a first test launch in December 2024 (maybe, Pentagon is shady on launch date actual); The missile at the core of...
Carrier Follies: Yet Another Failure Arrow in the Quiver
You had one job. Well, two. You can't launch and receive aircraft reliably. Nor apparently can you detect and deploy sensor capabilities to aim the aircraft that occasionally leave the very expensive deck. The radar has actually degraded over time. The dual-band radar...
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