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The Lawfare Podcast: Jonathan Schroden on the State of the Afghanistan Withdrawal

The United States is just over a month out from completing its full military withdrawal from Afghanistan, but as U.S. troops have moved on, the…

The Lawfare Podcast: Trump’s Final Year with Carol Leonnig and Phil Rucker

There are some stunning revelations coming out of the new blockbuster book by Carol Leonnig and Phil Rucker, “I Alone Can Fix It: Donald J….

The Lawfare Podcast: A Guantanamo Update with Latif Nasser and Steve Vladeck

It’s been a busy couple of weeks at Guantanamo Bay, a place that has not had a busy couple of weeks in a while. There…

The Lawfare Podcast: Facebook v. the White House: Renee DiResta and Brendan Nyhan Weigh In

This week we’re bringing you the breakdown of the heavyweight bout of the century—a battle over vaccine misinformation. In the left corner we have the…

Rational Security: The Farewell Edition

It’s our last episode—at least in our current form. We’ll reminisce about our favorite moments, hear from longtime friends and listeners, and share in a…

The Lawfare Podcast: Yemen on the Brink of Hope with Elisabeth Kendall and Alexandra Stark

Yemen remains a mess. Many years of warfare have left it politically fractured, economically shattered and with a true humanitarian crisis of multiple dimensions. And…

The Lawfare Podcast: Dmitri Alperovitch and Matt Tait on the Latest in Cybersecurity

It was quite a week in cybersecurity. The Israeli firm NSO Group was outed by a consortium of newspapers and media entities for its snooping…

The Lawfare Podcast: Scott Anderson on Withdrawals, Then and Now

U.S. troops are pulling out of Afghanistan, the withdrawal is almost done and U.S. forces turned over the Bagram Airfield to Afghan forces the other…

The Lawfare Podcast: Africa and U.S. Foreign Policy Opportunities with Judd Devermont

National security attention rarely focuses for long on Sub-Saharan Africa, and when it does, it’s largely on the most populous countries like Nigeria, Ethiopia and…

The Lawfare Podcast: Florida Man Regulates Social Media

On May 24, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed into law a bill designed to limit how social media platforms can moderate content. Technology companies, predictably,…