War on the Rocks

By Ryan Evans

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Subscribers: 1264
Reviews: 4
Episodes: 258

Hank Hill
 Dec 1, 2023
slightly more professional version of mainstream media drivel


 Mar 28, 2022

Hank Hill
 Nov 25, 2020
good informative podcast on modern warfare and public policy

Sean WM
 May 15, 2019
great content, Smooth presentation

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Discussions over drinks with security, defense, and foreign policy insiders and experts. The original War on the Rocks podcast series.

Episode Date
Spotlight on Moldova: Chisinau’s Ambassador Talks Democracy, Security and Wine
Mar 22, 2024
Fortifications, Manpower, and Munitions in Ukraine's Daunting Year Ahead
Mar 17, 2024
Warsaw's Man in Washington on European Security and Poland's Defense Buildup
Mar 11, 2024
Gen. Brito of Training & Doctrine Command Talks Army Professionalism
Mar 05, 2024
The Russo-Ukrainian War at Two
Feb 24, 2024
Iraq Between Suits and Fatigues
Feb 19, 2024
Security in the Indo-Pacific with Assistant Secretary of Defense Ely Ratner
Feb 13, 2024
The End of the Golden Era of Arms Control
Feb 08, 2024
A Conversation with Gen. Randy George, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army
Feb 05, 2024
Ukraine at War, From Avdiivka to Zaluzhny
Jan 30, 2024
A Very Nerdy Podcast Episode about the Navy
Jan 25, 2024
A Conversation with Gen. David Allvin, Chief of Staff of the Air Force
Jan 22, 2024
Ukraine Prepares for 2024
Jan 05, 2024
The Case for Seizing $300 Billion in Russian State Assets
Jan 04, 2024
Gaza and the Gulf
Dec 22, 2023
The Defense Department and the Rise of Commercial Spacepower
Nov 30, 2023
Adaptation at the Front and the Big Picture in Ukraine
Nov 21, 2023
Japan Re-evaluates Regional Threats
Nov 20, 2023
The Net Assessment Crew Sits Down with Ryan
Nov 14, 2023
Some Preliminary Thoughts on Ukraine's Position in the War
Nov 06, 2023
Defense and Capital: A Conversation with Raj Shah of Shield Capital
Oct 31, 2023
A Conversation with the Commandant, Gen. Eric Smith
Oct 25, 2023
Looking Beyond the Offensive in Ukraine
Oct 18, 2023
Tech, Ethics, and the City in Israel's Looming Urban Battlefield
Oct 13, 2023
Introducing Thinking the Unthinkable
Oct 11, 2023
The Meaning of the Attack on Israel
Oct 09, 2023
Finding the Floor: Can the U.S. and China Stabilize Their Relationship?
Oct 05, 2023
One Tree Line at a Time: Breaching Russian Defenses in Ukraine
Sep 28, 2023
Dueling Generals on Training and Readiness
Sep 27, 2023
A Chat with Britain's Top Officer, Adm. Radakin
Sep 18, 2023
Ukrainian Progress: A Breach or a Breakthrough of Russian Lines?
Sep 08, 2023
Debating FISA Section 702
Aug 31, 2023
How Ukraine Can Win the Peace: A Conversation with Stephen Kotkin
Aug 25, 2023
A Contest of Wills: Ukraine's Summer Offensive
Aug 22, 2023
Zooming Out on Ukraine's Offensive
Aug 03, 2023
An Inflection Point in Ukraine’s Counteroffensive
Jul 27, 2023
Ryan Evans on 10 Years of War on the Rocks
Jul 21, 2023
Ukraine Struggles to Scale Offensive Combat Operations
Jul 20, 2023
Assessing Ukraine's Three Axes of Advance
Jul 11, 2023
Understanding Risk and Redefining Readiness
Jul 10, 2023
Ukraine and Lessons Learned for Airpower and Spacepower
Jun 29, 2023
Defense and Capital: Venture and Debt
Jun 27, 2023
Ukraine's Offensive and Russia's Localized Counterattacks
Jun 24, 2023
Managing Chaos: The 2021 Kabul Airlift
Jun 21, 2023
Ukraine's Multiple Axes of Attack
Jun 14, 2023
The Ebb and Flow of Russian Military Power
Jun 02, 2023
Ukraine's Offensive and its Meaning for the War
May 30, 2023
Why Erdogan Wins
May 19, 2023
The Calm Before the Storm: Waiting for Ukraine's Offensive
Apr 27, 2023
A Conversation with Gen. CQ Brown, Chief of Staff of the Air Force
Apr 25, 2023
China, France, and the Shadow of History
Apr 20, 2023
Powering American Renewal with Innovation
Apr 13, 2023
Russia Will Soon Be on the Defense, But Then What?
Apr 03, 2023
The Military and Great Powers: The Latest From Latin America, Part 2
Mar 23, 2023
Central Command's Big Technology Bets
Mar 21, 2023
The Latest From Latin America, Part 1
Mar 16, 2023
How to Think About Bakhmut and a Ukrainian Spring Offensive
Mar 14, 2023
Backing Ukraine Against Russia, With Colin Kahl and Derek Chollet
Feb 24, 2023
Russia's Winter Offensive
Feb 18, 2023
Unfolding Offensives and Counter-Offensives in Ukraine
Feb 07, 2023
Talking Strategy with Assistant Secretary of Defense Mara Karlin
Jan 31, 2023
Manpower, Materiel, and the Coming Decisive Phase in Ukraine
Jan 23, 2023
A Disquieting Winter at War in Ukraine
Jan 05, 2023
Nukes, Negotiations, and Lessons From the War in Ukraine
Dec 28, 2022
Localized Offensives: The Direction of the Conflict
Dec 22, 2022
Winter and Beyond: An Inflection Point in the War Over Ukraine
Dec 09, 2022
Cognition and Curiosity: A Conversation with Lt. Gen. Brian Robinson
Dec 08, 2022
Josh Wolfe on Investing in American Defense
Nov 30, 2022
The Liberation of Kherson and the Next Phase of the War
Nov 17, 2022
A Conversation with Ukraine's Special Operations Commander
Nov 14, 2022
Southward and Eastward Pressure on Russian Forces
Oct 31, 2022
A Chat With Lt. Gen. Andrea Tullos of Air University
Oct 13, 2022
What Will Be Ukraine's Pre-Winter Gains?
Oct 10, 2022
The Kremlin in Command, Part II: Syria and the First Assault on Ukraine
Sep 28, 2022
Russia's Plan to Stay in the War
Sep 26, 2022
The Kremlin in Command, Part I: The Chechen Wars and Georgia
Sep 21, 2022
Ukraine's Kharkhiv Operation and the Russian Military's Black Week
Sep 12, 2022
Into the Breach: Ukraine’s Counter-Offensive Begins
Sep 01, 2022
Awaiting a Ukrainian Counter-Offensive
Aug 20, 2022
Troubled Waters Around Taiwan
Aug 17, 2022
The Task Force at the Bleeding Edge of the Marine Corps
Aug 11, 2022
Great Expectations? The Next Phase of the Russo-Ukrainian War
Aug 08, 2022
Shinzo Abe's Legacy in Japan and on the World Stage
Aug 05, 2022
Ukraine's Window of Opportunity?
Jul 28, 2022
Is the Most Important Battle of the War Coming?
Jul 11, 2022
Ukraine and Russia Grapple with Relentless Battle and Attrition
Jun 30, 2022
The Most Dangerous Phase for Ukraine?
Jun 13, 2022
What the Experts Got Wrong (and Right) About Russian Military Power
May 30, 2022
The Battlefields of the Donbass and Beyond
May 24, 2022
Counter-Attacks and Can-Kicking in the Russo-Ukrainian War
May 14, 2022
The U.S. Military Might Be More Like Russia's Military Than You Think
May 12, 2022
Ukraine's Military Advantage and Russia's Stark Choices
Apr 27, 2022
From Ukraine and Beyond: Unpacking the Sino-Russian Relationship
Apr 22, 2022
A Conversation with the Counselor: Derek Chollet on Navigating the World
Apr 13, 2022
Russia Downscales Its War, But Not in Brutality
Apr 11, 2022
Is India “Shaky” on Ukraine? It's Complicated
Mar 31, 2022
A New Phase of the Russo-Ukrainian War Begins
Mar 27, 2022
In the Fourth Week, Is Russia Revising its War Aims Amidst Attrition?
Mar 21, 2022
Into the Third Week: Will Russian Forces Need to Pause?
Mar 14, 2022
11 Days In: Russia's Invasion Stumbles Forward
Mar 07, 2022
Interpreting the First Few Days of the Russo-Ukrainian War
Feb 28, 2022
People At the Center: Talent, Education, and Modernization
Feb 01, 2022
Gen. David H. Berger on the Marine Corps of the Future
Jan 04, 2022
Oh My, AI
May 12, 2021
Great Power Cyber Party
Apr 19, 2021
Intelligence and the Biden Administration
Jan 20, 2021
Lost at Sea
Nov 23, 2020
A Whole New World (Order)
Nov 16, 2020
Change or Die
Nov 10, 2020
Banks and Moulton on Military Might and the American Future
Nov 02, 2020
Introducing "A Most Terrible Weapon"
Oct 30, 2020
Airmen, Sailors, and the Schoolhouse
Aug 24, 2020
Learn Like a Marine
Aug 18, 2020
Gearing up for Economic Statecraft
Aug 10, 2020
The Army Grapples with Modernization and COVID-19: A Conversation with Jim McPherson
Aug 04, 2020
Lies Through Which We Tell the Truth
Jul 13, 2020
Are Good Allies Hard to Find?
Jun 24, 2020
Scoping the Future of Education in National Security and Beyond
May 14, 2020
Is Cyber Half the Battle?
May 12, 2020
Disarming Disinformation
May 07, 2020
Gen. (ret.) Martin E. Dempsey on Following and Leading
Apr 13, 2020
A Chat with the Commandant: Gen. David H. Berger on the Marine Corps' New Direction
Apr 06, 2020
The Plague and the Peloponnesian War
Mar 23, 2020
Are the Forever Wars Really Forever?
Mar 16, 2020
Can America Jaw-Jaw its Way Out of Afghanistan?
Mar 09, 2020
A Military Straining Against Civilian Control?
Feb 24, 2020
The Fleet, the Fight, and the Future
Feb 17, 2020
Who Needs Landmines?
Feb 11, 2020
The Method (or Madness) of Counting the Seconds to Doomsday
Feb 03, 2020
No, Man: It’s an Island
Jan 13, 2020
Fission in Hamburg
Dec 30, 2019
Veterans in Congress Come Together 'For Country'
Dec 23, 2019
The Army's New Approach to People
Dec 16, 2019
The (War)Games We Play
Dec 02, 2019
Max Brooks: The Unreleased Interview
Nov 25, 2019
A Conversation with Sen. Tom Udall about War Powers
Nov 18, 2019
The (Four) Stars and the State: Civil-Military Affairs in 2019
Nov 11, 2019
Kings, Presidents, Editors, and People with Tapeworms
Nov 04, 2019
The Sense in Syria's Senselessness
Oct 27, 2019
Your Ideas Matter: The Making of Marine Strategic Planning and the Future of War
Aug 07, 2019
Ask Me No Questions, and I'll Tell You No Lies
Jul 29, 2019
How is the Air Force Adapting to Great Power Competition?
Jun 03, 2019
The Unmasking of Ned Stark and the Future of Air Force Leadership
May 13, 2019
Fresh Voices on Grand Strategy
Apr 17, 2019
Civil-Military Relations Gone Wild?
Mar 18, 2019
With the Caliphate Crushed, What's Next?
Feb 25, 2019
Mayhem and Misadventures in the Middle East
Feb 11, 2019
Ready to Compete? America's Military and Technological Edge
Feb 04, 2019
No Good, Very Bad Ideas in National Security
Jan 17, 2019
Full Steam Ahead: Naval Competition with China
Dec 20, 2018
Jaw-Jaw: Will Xi's Third Revolution Last?
Nov 27, 2018
Jaw Jaw: China is a Funny Sort of Revisionist Power — A Conversation with Dean Cheng
Nov 13, 2018
Net Assessment: The China Hand
Oct 18, 2018
Two Editors Go Nuclear on Each Other: A Conversation with Gideon Rose
Oct 16, 2018
Introducing Net Assessment
Oct 04, 2018
Horns of a Dilemma: Vietnam's Indelible Legacy: How the War Changed National Security Policymaking
Sep 21, 2018
Training the Military for the Next War
Sep 13, 2018
A Chat with the Chief: Gen. David Goldfein on the People and Future of the U.S. Air Force
Aug 29, 2018
The 100th Episode: Is a Major War Coming?
Jul 31, 2018
A Soldier Showing Us the Hidden Face of War
Jul 19, 2018
A Conversation With Clint Watts on Influence and Information in the Social Media Era
Jun 19, 2018
The Muslim Brotherhood's Convoluted Relationship with the West
Jun 14, 2018
Counterterrorism With Partner Countries: Promise or Peril?
Jun 07, 2018
The Future of Force
Jun 04, 2018
American Exceptionalism, Transatlantic Ties, and European Autonomy in the Age of Trump
May 24, 2018
Pakistan Beyond 70: Rivalries, its Neighbors, and the Great Powers
May 21, 2018
Ain't No Party Like a World Order Party
May 14, 2018
The Making of a Career Intelligence Official: A Conversation with Michael P. Dempsey
May 07, 2018
Strikes on Syria: The View From Paris
Apr 24, 2018
Horns of a Dilemma: Even Cybersecurity is Bigger in Texas
Mar 30, 2018
A Big Debate About a Little Nuke
Mar 14, 2018
Horns of a Dilemma: The Last Republicans?
Mar 08, 2018
Introducing "Horns of a Dilemma" with a Conversation on National Security
Mar 02, 2018
Fear Not the Blue-Haired Soldier?
Feb 19, 2018
The Big Cyber Spectacular
Feb 14, 2018
To Compete with China, Can America Get Out of Its Own Way?
Feb 07, 2018
Grand Strategy from Obama to Trump
Jan 31, 2018
Satire and Terror: A Conversation with the Editor-in-Chief of Charlie Hebdo
Dec 19, 2017
The Adventures of Intel in Trumpland
Nov 22, 2017
Storming Rome with Mike Duncan
Nov 08, 2017
The Hard Human Realities that Follow the War
Oct 31, 2017
Must the War Go On? Let's Talk About Iraq and the Kurds
Oct 23, 2017
Nothing New Under the Sun? Ethics and Service in the Age of Trump
Oct 11, 2017
Outlawing War: Did it Work Better Than We Thought?
Oct 02, 2017
Trump and Counter-Terrorism, Sixteen Years After 9/11
Sep 10, 2017
Our Big Texas Launch Party: UT and WOTR Join Forces
Aug 14, 2017
So, Does the National Security Strategy Matter?
Aug 07, 2017
In Defense of the Blob
Mar 09, 2017
Bombshell: Rage Against Alcibiades
Mar 01, 2017
The Promise and Peril of Cyber Operations
Feb 28, 2017
Counter-Terrorism from Bush to Obama to Trump
Feb 22, 2017
Is the Winston Churchill Bust Weeping?
Feb 13, 2017
Bombshell: Ain’t No Party Like an America First Party
Feb 01, 2017
You Can’t Always Get the World Order That You Want
Jan 26, 2017
Introducing Bombshell: The Explosive First Episode
Jan 17, 2017
Is Asia’s Golden Age Already Ending?
Jan 12, 2017
He’s Just Not That Into You: Trump, Intel, and the American Presidency
Jan 05, 2017
World Wars and the Craft of History
Dec 23, 2016
Emails and Influence: Investigating Russia’s Attack on the U.S. Political System
Oct 31, 2016
Around the World Over Drinks: The Middle East, Russia, and Big Issues for the Next President
Sep 30, 2016
Civ-Mil Relations in the U.S. and Strategy Tales from Australia
Sep 23, 2016
Talking Turkey’s Coup: Erdogan, a Fractured Military, and the Gulen Movement
Jul 19, 2016
What to Read About the History of Strategy this Summer
Jul 15, 2016
The Long Game: How Will Obama’s Foreign Policies Be Judged By History?
Jun 21, 2016
A Tale of Two Speeches: U.S.-Russian Relations Through the Lens of Munich
Mar 02, 2016
Four Key Leaders in Munich on the State of the World
Feb 16, 2016
Hacking Defense and Iraq’s Controversial Security Groups
Feb 08, 2016
Journalism, the Military, and America’s Wars
Jan 25, 2016
The Obama Administration and the Middle East: An Insider’s View
Jan 12, 2016
Fighting Russia in Europe and a Dose of Military Fiction
Dec 17, 2015
Ash Carter: The Interview
Nov 19, 2015
The Vatican’s Cloak-and-Dagger War Against Hitler
Nov 02, 2015
Around the World: Episode 2
Oct 13, 2015
Navigating the Islamic State Challenge
Sep 24, 2015
The State of Russian Strategy: Ukraine, Syria, and Beyond
Sep 22, 2015
NATSEC2016: A Podcast on the 2016 Elections and National Security
Sep 14, 2015
Hacking the Defense Industry
Sep 10, 2015
America, China, and Xi Jinping’s Visit to Washington
Sep 08, 2015
A Relentless Conversation About JSOC
Sep 01, 2015
PODCAST: Infantry Combat from Modern Ukraine back to World War I
Aug 26, 2015
PODCAST: Drinking Through Naval History
Aug 14, 2015
PODCAST: Around the World, Ep. 1
Aug 04, 2015
PODCAST: A Novelist and a Historian Walk Into a Bar
Jul 28, 2015
PODCAST: The war with China you’ve been waiting for
Jun 30, 2015
VP’s National Security Adviser on the Iran Deal: Colin Kahl Gives an Insider’s View
Jun 11, 2015
PODCAST: National Security and the Schoolhouse
May 20, 2015
PODCAST: War on the Rocks goes to Istanbul
May 07, 2015
The Fog of Peace: Defense and Uncertainty
Apr 30, 2015
The State of the World: A Conversation with Lawrence Freedman
Apr 29, 2015
PODCAST: The Islamic State’s War in Iraq and Syria
Apr 15, 2015
Cybersecurity over Sazeracs
Mar 05, 2015
PODCAST: Asian Maritime Security and a Rising China
Jan 21, 2015
PODCAST: South Asia meets East Asia
Jan 13, 2015
PODCAST: Spitballing Offset Strategy
Dec 23, 2014
On Strategy and Strategists
Dec 04, 2014
PODCAST: Naval and Maritime Strategy
Oct 21, 2014
PODCAST: Asian Security – Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Confrontation with China
Oct 08, 2014
Podcast: In Search of a Middle East Strategy
Sep 19, 2014
PODCAST: America’s Search for Security with Sean Kay
Sep 11, 2014
PODCAST: Bourbon with a splash of counter-insurgency
Mar 31, 2014
Broken Mirrors Episode 5: The Operation of Intelligence in a Democracy
Mar 28, 2014
A Conversation with the Chairman: General Martin E. Dempsey
Feb 25, 2014
PODCAST: Contemporary Nuclear Strategy
Feb 17, 2014
PODCAST: Cyberwar and Cybersecurity
Jan 07, 2014
PODCAST: Counter-Terrorism, Drones, Syria, & More
Dec 24, 2013
Strategic Surprise, Intelligence and Terrorism: Developing a Tolerance for Disaster
Dec 18, 2013
PODCAST: Nuclear Strategy and the Cold War
Dec 10, 2013
50 years on, can we still learn from JFK’s strategy?
Nov 07, 2013
Broken Mirrors, Episode 3: Fear & (In)Security Theatre
Oct 31, 2013
PODCAST: The War in your Wallet: The Real Invisible Hand
Oct 04, 2013
PODCAST: Pivoting around and around in the Middle East
Sep 25, 2013
PODCAST: Broken Mirrors, Episode 1
Sep 03, 2013
PODCAST: Syria, Secrets, and Some Snark
Aug 28, 2013
Podcast: Talking Terrorism with Pantucci and Simcox
Aug 19, 2013
Podcast: War from the Ground up with Simpson and McInnis
Aug 01, 2013
PODCAST: More Irregular Warfare Fun
Jul 31, 2013
Podcast: Talking COIN with the folks from the Army Irregular Warfare Center
Jul 29, 2013
First WOTR Podcast: Bill Rosenau, Will McCants, and Afshon Ostovar
Jul 08, 2013