Understandable Insights: Information to Intelligence with Sue Gordon
By Sue Gordon & Eric Koepp
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Episodes: 53
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Welcome to “Understandable Insights: Information to Intelligence with Sue Gordon” — the national security podcast that provides you an elemental understanding of the world as it is, not how you prefer it to be.
Each week, Eric — a former Marine, father, and entrepreneur — sits down with the Honorable Sue Gordon, the nation’s former top career intelligence officer. Together, they break down the headlines shaping our world and ask what they really mean for citizens, leaders, and institutions.
From armed conflict to emerging tech, foreign interference to the resilience of democracy — this is where raw information becomes real intelligence. Unfiltered. Candid. Unapologetically clear.
New episodes every Tuesday. Subscribe now.
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Ep. 47 Who Gets to Decide?
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Jun 23, 2026 |
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Ep. 46 Follow the Money, Follow the Choices
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Jun 09, 2026 |
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Ep. 45 Service, Loyalty, and the Questions That Matter
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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Ep. 44 Better Questions: Cyber
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May 19, 2026 |
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Ep. 43 Better Questions: AI
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May 12, 2026 |
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Ep. 42 From Sedona: What the Sedona Forum Reveals About the World
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May 05, 2026 |
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Ep. 41 Already Inside the Wire: Why the Most Dangerous Threats Don’t Look Like Attacks
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Apr 29, 2026 |
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Ep. 40 The Discretionary Trap: Why Washington Is Fighting Over the Smallest Slice
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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Ep. 39 Federalism in Action: Elections, Governors, and Energy
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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Ep. 38 The Great Rewiring: Small Signals, Shifting Systems
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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Ep. 37 AI, Missiles, and the Price of Power: Signals of a New Security Era
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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Ep. 36 When Intelligence and Policy Collide—The Cost of Public Friction and What It Signals
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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Ep. 35: Citizens Keep Exercising Their Power
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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Ep. 34 When the Rules Stop Working
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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Ep. 33 Independence Is Not Insulation
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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Ep. 32 The Framework Without The Foundation
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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Ep. 31 Fast isn’t Free: The Hidden Cost of Skipping Legitimacy
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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Ep. 30 Trust Can't Be Borrowed: When Authority is Misapplied, It Doesn’t Reassure
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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Ep. 29 Power Without Permission: Who Decides When Technology Governs Us All
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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Ep. 28 Power, Precedent, and Accountability: Why Power Must Explain
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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Ep. 27 Democracy Under Stress: Elections as Infrastructure, Conditional Acceptance, & Human Strength
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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Ep. 26 Default to Trust–Why It’s Necessary, Signs We’re in Trouble
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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Ep. 25: A Global Geopolitical Romp: Strategy, Scarcity, and a Question of Values
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Ep. 24 Bonus Space: From Domain to Dependency
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Jan 02, 2026 |
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Ep. 24 The National Security Trump Card: Ukraine, Greenland, and Windmills
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Dec 30, 2025 |
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Ep. 23 Bonus: You Can't Surge Trust in a Crisis
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Dec 26, 2025 |
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Ep. 23 Ukraine, the NDAA, and Fusion Hype — and Why We Track Santa
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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Ep. 22 Transparency by Design: DOE’s Genesis Mission, H200 Exports, & Australia’s Under-16 Test
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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Ep. 21 Dominance Playbook: National Security Strategy, Undersea Competition, & Golden Dome Limits
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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Ep 20 Bonus: Retribution Politics: When Dissent Becomes Dangerous
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Dec 06, 2025 |
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Ep. 20 Trust and Consequences: Afghan Allies, Back-Channels, and Nursing Pros
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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Ep. 19 Substitution or Sovereignty? China’s Capital, Nuclear Loans, & State vs. Federal Power
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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Ep. 18 Leaky Systems: Agentic AI Hack, Dams and Drought, & States Stepping Up
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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Ep. 17 Steppe Signals: Kazakhstan’s Uranium, Europe’s First-Mover Standards, & AI Bubble Watch
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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Ep. 16 Critical Mass: Nuclear Testing, Power for the AI Era, and the Civic Moves That Matter
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Ep. 15 Speed Is the Advantage: Army Acquisitions, the Asia Trip, & Argentina ROI
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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Ep. 14 Quantum Is Closing In, Data Everywhere, & Peace in Sight
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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Ep. 13 The War Department’s Misfire
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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Ep. 12 Shutdowns Aren’t a Light Switch: SIM Farms, Justice by Process, and Meeting Turkey’s Ur-Fascism
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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Ep. 11 Digital Assets 101: Stablecoins to Sovereign Wealth — with Hon. Shannon Corless
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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Ep. 10: Ghost Shark AI, Police-State Tech, and the Leadership Gap
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Sep 17, 2025 |
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Ep. 09 Congressional Oversight Limited, Caribbean Motives, & City Security
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Sep 10, 2025 |
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Ep. 08 Cyber to Cornfields: Community and Trust in the Heartland
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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Ep. 07 IC Integrity, Intel Equity & Ukraine’s Stolen Children
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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Ep. 06 Precision Influence, Precision Maps: Trump–Putin Theater, China’s AI Ops, & Texas Resistance
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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Ep. 05: Splashy Action, Long Term Effect
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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Ep. 04 Bonus: China’s Commercial Space Collision Course
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Aug 07, 2025 |
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Ep. 04 Threats abroad AND at home
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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Ep. 03 Bonus: China Fills the Soft Power Vacuum
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Jul 31, 2025 |
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Ep. 03 Algorithms and AI Action Plans
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Ep. 02 How does change happen?
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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Ep. 01 It's ALL National Security
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Jul 16, 2025 |
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Jul 15, 2025 |