Afghanistan

The DSR Daily Brief for May 20, 2022

The sixtieth episode of the DSR Daily Brief. Stories cited in the podcast: Biden administration announces $100 million security package…

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A Look Back at the World in 2021 – Full Member Episode

From January 6th to the Democracy Summit, 2021 has been an eventful year fore foreign policy and national security. To…

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A Look Back at the World in 2021

From January 6th to the Democracy Summit, 2021 has been an eventful year fore foreign policy and national security. To…

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Girding for New and Old Threats – Episode Transcript

Note: Transcripts are machine generated and lightly edited for speaker names. Extremism expert Kathleen Belew talks with Jeanne Meserve about…

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Girding for New and Old Threats

Extremism expert Kathleen Belew talks with Jeanne Meserve about new factors raising the potential for violence at Sept.18 Capitol protests,…

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How Do You Feel About the Urge to Surge – Episode Transcript

Note: Transcripts are machine generated and lightly edited for speaker names. While Congress holds hearings questioning the Secretary of State…

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How Do You Feel About the Urge to Surge?

While Congress holds hearings questioning the Secretary of State about the conduct of America’s exit from Afghanistan, it probably should…

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Kabul’s loss and a new 9/11 terror warning – Episode Transcript

Note: Transcripts are machine generated and lightly edited for speaker names. Author Craig Whitlock talks with Jeff Stein about US…

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Kabul’s loss and a new 9/11 terror warning

Author Craig Whitlock talks with Jeff Stein about US intelligence’s place in 20 years of lies and deception in Afghanistan,…

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Kabul\’s loss and a new 9/11 terror warning – Episode Transcript

Note: Transcripts are machine generated and lightly edited for speaker names. Author Craig Whitlock talks with Jeff Stein about US…

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Ways to Support Afghan Refugees

The situation in Afghanistan is incredibly dire as we have been discussing for weeks on Deep State Radio.  However, there…

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As We Approach the Afghanistan Deadline: Looking Back and Looking Ahead – Episode Transcript

Note: Transcripts are machine generated and lightly edited for speaker names. It has been difficult to have a serious, balanced…

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As We Approach the Afghanistan Deadline: Looking Back and Looking Ahead

It has been difficult to have a serious, balanced conversation about what the U.S. and this administration has done right…

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Why Did Trump Turn Away Our Afghan Allies – Episode Transcript

Note: Transcripts are machine generated and lightly edited for speaker names. The reason the crowds thronging the outskirts of the…

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Why Did Trump Turn Away Our Afghan Allies?

The reason the crowds thronging the outskirts of the airport in Kabul were so large was in part due to…

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The Human Factor

Top former CIA operations official William Murray talks with Jeanne Meserve about the loss of the agency’s spy base in…

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Rothkopf vs. the Washington Hivemind (a Reasonable Debate)

An episode in which we bring to life the debate that even the best of friends can have over the…

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Rothkopf vs. the Washington Hivemind (a Reasonable Debate) – Episode Transcript

Note: Transcripts are machine generated and lightly edited for speaker names. An episode in which we bring to life the…

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Implications for the Kabul Catastrophe

Terrorism expert and Georgetown University Professor, Bruce Hoffman explains the drastic implications of the Taliban triumph, and journalist Toby Harnden…

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Ali Soufan on the Taliban’s Global Plans

The celebrated former FBI special agent and counterterrorism specialist says the Taliban aspire to undermining the West’s “Roman Empire.”

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