Conversations on Strategy Podcast

Conversations on Strategy Podcast | Sept. 17, 2024

Technology and Warfare

In this episode, COL Thomas Spahr and Zach Kallenborn discuss technology and warfare and what practitioners and leaders can learn from America’s past wars and the Russia-Ukraine War.

Conversations on Strategy Podcast | Aug. 8, 2024

“Spatial Anchors and Dangerous Liaisons: Terrorist Collaboration in an A...

If leaders of terrorist organizations can recruit, indoctrinate, plan, and operate using AR with little drop-off in effectiveness while staying safely in hiding, the challenges faced by national security and law-enforcement organizations will

Conversations on Strategy Podcast | July 18, 2024

“Weaponizing Food Insecurity: The Violent Extremist Threat to Precision ...

This episode explores the intersection of food insecurity and precision agriculture in the United States with author Michael W. Parrott, an expert in Special Operations Forces counterintelligence. Drawing from his experience in combat zones and

Conversations on Strategy Podcast | July 9, 2024

“ChatGPT, Artificial Intelligence, and the Terrorist Toolbox”

Dr. Sarah Lohmann discusses the use of AI in terrorism, emphasizing its potential for both good and malicious intent. She highlights terrorists’ utilization of AI tools for recruitment and accessing sensitive data, posing cybersecurity risks. Lohmann

Conversations on Strategy Podcast | July 3, 2024

On Emerging Technologies and Terrorism: An American Perspective

Colonel Eric Hartunian and Lieutenant Colonel Paul Milas, co-editors with Susan Sims of Emerging Technologies and Terrorism: An American Perspective, discuss their newly published collaborative study from the US Army War College Press. The

Conversations on Strategy Podcast | June 12, 2024

The Harding Project

Lieutenant Colonel Zachary Griffiths and Sergeant First Class Leyton Summerlin of the Harding Project discuss military discourse and why it matters, the impact of professional writing, tips for aspiring writers, and more. Named after Major General

Conversations on Strategy Podcast | May 29, 2024

On Lessons Learned and Unlearned: The Drivers of US Indirect-Fire Innova...

In this episode, Major Brennan Deveraux, author of Lessons Learned and Unlearned: the Drivers of US Indirect-Fire Innovation, and Brigadier General Shane P. Morgan, 56th Field Artillery commandant at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, discuss Deveraux’s book,

Conversations on Strategy Podcast | May 27, 2024

AI, Trust, Culture, and the Military (Part 2)

Contesting Paul Scharre’s influential vision of “centaur warfighting” and the idea that autonomous weapon systems will replace human warfighters, this podcast proposes that the manned-unmanned teams of the future are more likely to be minotaurs,

Conversations on Strategy Podcast | May 15, 2024

AI, Trust, Culture, and the Military (Part 1)

Contesting Paul Scharre’s influential vision of “centaur warfighting” and the idea that autonomous weapon systems will replace human warfighters, this podcast proposes that the manned-unmanned teams of the future are more likely to be minotaurs,

Conversations on Strategy Podcast | April 24, 2024

Deterrence Gap: Avoiding War in the Taiwan Strait (Part 2)

The likelihood China will attack Taiwan in the next decade is high and will continue to be so, unless Taipei and Washington take urgent steps to restore deterrence across the Taiwan Strait. This monograph introduces the concept of interlocking