We listen back on more than a dozen guests from conversations across 2024. Guests (in order): Fabian Hinz , research fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies; Bruce Hoffman , senior fellow for counterterrorism and homeland security at the Council on Foreign Relations, and co-author of " God, Guns, and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America "; Karolina Hird , analyst and Russia Deputy Team Lead at the Institute for the Study of War; Elliot Ackerman , co-author of " 2054: A Novel "; Mackenzie Eaglen , senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, where she works on defense strategy, defense budgets, and military readiness; Ankit Panda , Stanton Senior Fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Chris Blattman , economist, political scientist, and Ramalee E. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies at the University of Chicago, and author of the 2022 book, " Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace "; Mick Ryan , retired Australian Army major general, strategist, and author of " White Sun War: The Campaign for Taiwan "; Dmitri Alperovitch , chairman of the Silverado Policy Accelerator, a geopolitics think-tank in Washington, and author of " World on the Brink: How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century "; Sam Skove, former Defense One staff writer; Mark Montgomery , a retired U.S. Navy rear admiral, is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in Washington and senior director of FDD's Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation; Peter Tamte, founder and CEO of Victura ; And Brent Sadler , retired Navy captain and senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation.
