Radio War Nerd EP61—Jack Murphy on Syria

Guest: Jack Murphy, journalist , author & Special Forces veteran The War Nerd talks to writer/vet Jack Murphy about parachuting, Lindsay Lohan, transition from military to academia . . . Think-tank chickenhawks Charles Lister, Michael Weiss, Eli Lake . . . Farcical CIA "vetting" Syrian rebels, tensions between CIA and Special Forces, MENA stragegic clusterfuck . . . Propaganda as war weapon . . . Trump's defense picks & Iran policy . . . PLUS: World of Wars—Aleppo, Mosul, Ukraine, South Sudan . . .