Frontlines of Freedom ™

Gen. Audino's Comments: How to handle the midterm election results, the real definition of genocide. Special Guest: Lt. Colonel (res) Maurice Hirsch is an international law expert who specializes in the prosecution of terrorists, the Palestinian Authority and the law applied in the West Bank. He joins us to dissect the popular claims of genocide in Gaza and to explain the situation on the ground i...

Gen. Audino's Comments: Mass Protests in Europe - who's behind them and how do they compare to mass protests in Europe in the past? Special Guest: US Army Colonel (Ret) Myles Caggins is the former Strategic Comms Director at the NSC and the former Comms Director & Senior Spokesman for Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS in Syria/Iraq. He travels to Syria regularly, and he joins us to share the lat...

Gen. Audino's Comments: Looking back at Hezbollah bombing of US Marine barracks in Beirut 43 years ago. Does Israel’s war in Gaza comply with Just War Doctrine? Special Guest: Retired British Army Col. Richard Kemp served as a soldier and officer in the Royal Anglian Regiment from 1977 to 2006 (Commander of the Order of The British Empire, recipient of the Queen’s Commendation for Bravery). He has...

Gen. Audino's Comments from Israel: Seizing ground takes BOG, major threats Israel NEEDS to be ready for. Special Guest: Mike Ettore is a retired Marine Corps Infantry officer and decorated combat leader, the founder of Fidelis Leadership Group, and the author of multiple books on Leadership. Mike knows his stuff! Hear how to become a better leader at any level and why the committed study of leade...

Gen. Audino's Comments: Life really is like a James Bond movie. Special Guest: Chris Costa is the Executive Director of the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., a role he has held since 2018. A retired U.S. Army intelligence officer with 34–35 years of service, Costa’s career spanned counterintelligence, human intelligence, and special operations in some of the world’s most volatile regio...

Gen. Audino's Comments: 3rd anniversary of the Hamas massacre on Israeli non-combatants (7Oct23). What makes a border defensible? Special Guest: Colonel (ret.) Joe Kopser is a combat vet, Ranger, and also a multi-time entrepreneur, author, and the founder of the non-profit, Leading2Win…purposed to help build shared understanding between our military veterans and civilian citizens. In addition disc...

46th Anniversary of the start of the Iran-Iraq War: A brutal war with at least 1 million casualties, trench-warfare, human-wave attacks, wide-spread employment of chemical weapons, and yet after 8 years, no terrain was gained, and neither side was victorious. Special Guest - Multi-time US Ambassador Stan Escudero was on the ground (undercover) in Tehran during the Revolution in 1979, AND he was PO...

Gen. Audino's Comments: Commemorating National POW/MIA Recognition Day. PSYOPs, AI data centers, and enemy-sponsored disinformation activities. Special Guest: LTC (ret.) Charles (Chuck) Fowler, a 39-year Army veteran, is now a business leader, patriot, and huge advocate for veterans. He's the president and founder of 1Nation, a cross-partisan nonprofit dedicated to rediscovering common ground as A...

25th Anniversary of 9/11 Comments by Gen. Audino: Why we won after 9/11. Special Guest: General Sheikh Jaafar, longtime commander of Kurdish Peshmerga forces and now Vice President of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, spent years fighting not just al Qaeda but also the armies and agents of Saddam Hussein. He tells us about the years of guerrilla ops against larger enemies…including the years of Anfal...

Gen. Audino's Comments: Why everyone should study leadership. Special Guest: Jennifer Devine is a Gulf War veteran and former United States Army captain. A loggie…and a female on the battlefields of the Middle East…she joins us to discuss her experience (including what it was like being a servicewoman in Saudi Arabia), a few funny stories, some lessons learned about leadership, and why joining the...

Gen. Audino's Comments: 5 years since suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai Int’l Airport, Poland increases military readiness against Russia, Turkey determined to get into Syria. Special Guest: Col. (ret.) Dr. Jacques Neriah was formerly Foreign Policy Advisor to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Deputy Head for Assessment of Israeli Military Intelligence. He is now a Middle East analyst, author...

Gen. Audino's Comments: Update on injured Mukry (son of Gen. Yazdanpanna), grit in the military, USS Abraham Lincoln. Special Guest: Lt. General (ret.) Jeffrey S. Buchanan has 37 years of Army military service on the front lines worldwide. He commanded troops at every level, from platoons to theater armies (more than 50,000 troops from all branches of the military). He served four combat tours in...

Gen. Audino's Comments: Strait of Hormuz irrelevent within 2 years? Iran warns Syria against troops in Lebanon. Special Guest: Dr. Fouad Abu Nader is the former head of the Lebanese Forces. Fouad, a Christian, was kidnapped by Palestinians and wounded in action 3 times fighting the Palestinian insurgency and Syrian forces. He also survived an assassination attempt. He shares an assessment of the s...

Gen. Audino's Comments: Prayers for Mukry (son of Gen. Yazdanpanna), why so much dealmaking and not enough warfighting in Iran? Special Guest: As we approach the 5th anniversary of the fall of Kabul, which was overtaken by the Taliban on August 15, 2021, we're joined by Army Col. (ret.) John Kiel, a JAG who was on the ground in Afghanistan with TF180 early in the war. In this entertaining and insi...

Gen. Audino's Comments: The "surprise" Iranian attack on US troops, Saudi Arabia stepping up to the plate. Special Guest: Ali Nazary is one of the founding members of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (successor to the Northern Alliance). He now serves as Head of Foreign Affairs for the NRF, the heart of the resistance against the Taliban and other terrorist groups wreaking havoc in Afg...

Gen. Audino's Comments: Now is NOT the time to lift fires, Iranians angry at the regime? Special Guest: Dr. Dan Diker is President of the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs. As a counterterrorism and national security expert, he joins Gen. Audino to discuss what the US has done right in Iran, what mistakes have been made (and continue to be made) against the regime, and what winning...

Gen. Audino's Comments: How NOT to turn Iran into Vietnam. Special Guest: David Tafuri was with the State Dept in Baghdad in '06, and he still gets back and forth to all kinds of hotspots these days. He joins us from Kyiv, Ukraine to talk the current situation on the ground there, as well as discussing his experiences in Iraq and our military strategy against Iran.

Gen. Audino's Comments: Ceasefire over in Iran, damage update, operational vs political objectives (crutial differences), boots on the ground in Iran? Special Guest: LTG Sean MacFarland (Army ret.) is the man who’s most credited with turning the tide on Al-Qaeda in Iraq. He led the fight in Ramadi, raised the Sons of Iraq (al Sahwah, the Sunni Awakening), and helped turn Sunni Arab tribes against...

Happy 250th Birthday, America! As we celebrate this momentus event, BG Ernie Audino looks back at how it all started and honors those who lost their lives fighting for our freedom during the American Revolution. Special Guest: As part of an extensive military career, Army MG John McLaren (Ret.) was actually Ernie's commander in '05-'06 when he was embedded with the Kurdish Peshmerga in Iraq. In ad...

Gen. Audino's Comments from Budapest: Hungary's fight against the USSR, Iran turning into the next Vietnam! Special Guest: Peter R. Heussy is one of our nation’s foremost authorities on nuclear weapons policy. He joins us to talk all things nuclear weapons: past, present, and future. Who has them and who doesn't? How bad was the Iran Nuclear Deal (JCPOA) under Obama? How easily can Iran develop or...

Gen. Audino's Comments: Why would the US enter into this ridiculous-looking Memorandum of Understanding with Iran? Special Guest: Army vet Sam Faddis, former CIA operator and head of the WMD Unit at the CIA Counter Terrorism Center, has experience on the ground along the Iranian border, plus years of direct experience with Iran’s nuclear program. He joins us to break down the bad and the ugly in t...

Gen. Audino's Comments: The Will to Fight (historically, in Ukraine, and against Iran). Special Guest: Navy vet Bert Watson just returned from his EIGHTH time in Ukraine! He's currently involved in efforts to support the country in its effort to maintain its independence. He's met with frontline Ukrainian units, command posts, special forces HQs, and more, so he knows what's going on there! He and...

Gen. Audino's Comments: The War Powers Resolution vote that passed the House isn't going anywhere and emboldens the enemy! Special Guest: Andrew Ghalili is the Director of Policy for the National Union for Democracy in Iran (NUFDI). He has extensive experience in security and intelligence and works closely with the Crown Prince of Iran, Reza Pahlavi, son of the late Shah of Iran. Andrew joins us t...

Gen. Audino Comments from the European Economic and Security Summit in Bosnia. Special Guest: Dr. Gaby Hawat, a veteran of battlefields in Lebanon, joins us to talk Hezbollah, Lebanon, and Iran. Topics covered include why it's a fantasy to expect Hezbollah to be disarmed by itself or the Lebanese govt., why the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz is working, and why the Iranian regime MUST be toppled...

The Full Measure of Memorial Day (remembering servicemember deaths from American Revolution to Opn Epic Fury). Special Guest: Dr. Lani Kass has 50 years of national security service, including 20 as a professor of military strategy and ops at the National War College. She joins us to discuss strategy with China, Iran, and even Cuba. Topics include how China and Iran are working together against us...