RealClear Defense presents Hot Wash
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RealClear Defense presents Hot Wash
A "real clear" discussion of contemporary issues in defense featuring the writers and editors of RealClear Defense.
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Accelerate, Change or Lose: The Replicator Initiative and Transforming the Pentagon
In August of this year, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks announced the “Replicator Initiative” a new program to field thousands of less cost...
Hamas, Israel, Iran and the Human Tragedy in Gaza with Jonathan Schanzer
On today’s episode we return to an interview with Jonathan Schanzer, Senior Vice President for Research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies,...
Measuring the Chinese Navy with Tom Shugart
As China’s military capabilities grow, discussions about the US posture in the Pacific often return to the question how large a force does the US need...
War, Rage, and Restless Youth in Afghanistan with Miles Lagoze
Note this episode contains explicit language and discussion of self-harm.
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Trust in the Military and the Recruitment Crisis with Peter Feaver
On the RealClearDefense podcast “Hot Wash,” host John Sorensen speaks with Dr. Peter Feaver, a long-time researcher of civil-military affairs about hi...
Mike Erwin on Leadership and Service
John Waters speaks with entrepreneur, Army veteran, and author Mike Erwin about applying lessons from the military to positive leadership off the batt...
The GOP Debate and China with Rep Mike Gallagher
As Republican candidates prepare for the first debate, does the GOP have a China strategy? In a recent piece for the Wall Street Journal, Rep. Mike Ga...
Taiwan, Drones, AI, and the Future of Warfare with Mick Ryan
The war in Ukraine has rapidly reshaped how strategists think about the modern battlefield, especially the use of drones, cyber, social media, and the...
CNNs Jake Tapper "All the Demons Are Here", Covering Afghanistan, and the War in Ukraine
On today’s “Hot Wash,” CNN’s Jake Tapper talks about his new fiction thriller “All the Demons Are Here” about an AWOL US Marine back from the Vietnam...
Rep. Mark Green on Securing the Border, BRICS, NATO, and the Recruitment Crisis in the Military
Welcome to the first episode of BLUF: Bottom Line Up Front, presented by Real Clear Defense, in which we ask a member of Congress 7 questions that cut...
Oppenheimer: The Man Behind the Movie
Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated film “Oppenheimer” opens this weekend. For the story behind one of America’s most consequential and controversi...
Why Did Putin Let Prigozhin Go? With Kathryn Stoner
On Friday June 23rd Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Russian mercenary Wagner Group, took to Telegram to announce that he would, “march for justic...
FBI Source Goes Missing in Russia: From 9/11 to the War in Ukraine
RealClearDefense contributor John Waters speaks with Wall Street Journal National Security reporter Brett Forrest about his new bestselling book, "Los...
Did the Cold War Really End? 100 Years of Espionage with Calder Walton
Did the Cold War really end? As recently as this week, the New York Times confirmed that in 2020 Russian intelligence attempted to assassinate a defec...
The Women behind the POW/MIA Movement
On today's "Hot Wash," RCD contributor John Waters talks to the authors of a new book, “Unwavering: The Wives Who Fought to Ensure No Man is Left Behi...
The Navy SEAL Fighting in Ukraine: Daniel Swift and the Pull of Combat
On today's "Hot Wash," RCD contributor John Waters talks to the authors of one the site's most popular recent articles, “The Navy SEAL Who Went to Ukr...
Kissinger's Betrayal: How America Lost the Vietnam War
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The Age of Danger with Andy Hoehn and Thom Shanker
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North Korea's Cyber-Warriors with Jean Lee
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Surviving Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima: Talking to WWII Vet Bill Swanson
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Gut-wrenching Story of Bravo Company in the 82nd Airborne
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Why America Loses Wars: the Failures of Ends, Ways, and Means in US Military Strategy with Don Stoker
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Defense Budgets Bloated by Threat Inflation? Russia and China from a Free Markets Perspective
On this episode of "Hot Wash" we look at the US military’s peer adversaries from a “Free Markets” perspective. Are defense budgets bloated by threat i...
Putin’s Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine with Mark Galeotti
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Bravo Company: An Afghanistan Deployment and Its Aftermath
On today’s episode of the RealClearDefense podcast “Hot Wash,” host John Sorensen, and RCD contributor John Waters speak with journalist and combat ve...
The Shot: The Harrowing Journey of a Marine in the War On Terror
On today’s episode of the RealClearDefense podcast “Hot Wash,” RCD contributor John Waters speaks with Bill Bee and Wills Robinson the authors of “The...
Costs of War with Stephanie Savell
On the RealClearDefense podcast "Hot Wash", host John Sorensen and RCD Contributor John Waters speak with Stephanie Savell, the Co-Director of the Cos...
Jason Kander “Invisible Storm: A Soldier’s Memoir of Politics and PTSD”
On today's episode of the RealClearDefense Podcast "Hot Wash" host John Sorensen and RCD contributor Todd Carney, speak with Jason Kander, veteran, po...
Escape From Kabul
On today's RealClearDefense podcast "Hot Wash," host John Sorensen and RCD Editor David Craig, talk with Jamie Roberts, the director of a new document...
Stuart Scheller, "Crisis of Command"
Today on the RealClearDefense podcast “Hot Wash” RCD editor David Craig, contributor John Waters, and host John Sorensen speak with retired Marine Lie...
Andrew Milburn of The Mozart Group: The War for Ukraine
On this edition of the RealClear Defense podcast Hotwash, John Sorensen hosts retired Marine Colonel Andrew Milburn, Founder and CEO of the Mozart Gro...
Writer/Director Abi Damaris Corbin Discusses Her New Film "Breaking," a Portrait of a Veteran at the Breaking Point
Writer/Director Abi Damaris Corbin discusses her new film, "Breaking," based on the real-life story of the late Brian Brown-Easley, a former Marine Co...
The War Against the Islamic State with Michael Gordon
RealClearDefense Contributor John Waters and "Hot Wash" host John Sorensen speak with Michael Gordon national security correspondent at the Wall Stree...
Who Killed Lt VanDorn
This week a look at the documentary, “Who Killed Lt. VanDorn?”
In a January 2014 training exercise off the coast of Virginia, pilot Lt. Wes VanD...
A Few Bad Men with Fred Galvin
Today on the RealClearDefense podcast "Hot Wash", host John Sorensen and RCD contributor John Waters talk to Retired Marine Major Fred Galvin about hi...
To Risk It All w Adm James Stavridis
On today’s RealClearDefense podcast "Hot Wash", RCD Editor David Craig and Contributor John Waters speak with retired four-star Admiral James Stavridi...
The Tech War w China: Daniel Goure
Today on the RealClearDefense podcast "Hot Wash", RCD Editor David Craig looks at competing with China’s military on the technology front. The US mili...
Cyber and the Laws of War in Ukraine
On the RealClearDefense podcast “Hot Wash”, RealClearDefense editor David Craig speaks with retired Army Colonel and former General Counsel at US Cybe...
Controversy at SEAL Team Six with Matthew Cole
Today on the RealClearDefense podcast "Hot Wash," host John Sorensen and RCD contributor John Waters speak with Matthew Cole about his new book, “Code...
WMD in Ukraine
Today on the RealClearDefense podcast "Hot Wash", host John Sorensen and RCD Editor David Craig continue coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine b...