Joe McGiffin, Pete Mitchell

Brass Tactics

Science EN ↓ 30 episodes

Learn anything you wanted to about international relations and national security--and plenty that you didn't! Hosts Joe and Pete break down the big questions out there on how things are and where to go from there with no political bias and no B.S. so that you can make your own informed choices on foreign policy affairs.

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Joe McGiffin, Pete Mitchell

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All about M.E.? The M.I.D.L.I.F.E. Crisis 27.02.2024 52:22

This week, Charles Faint, Chair for the Study of Special Operations at the Modern War Institute and founder of the Havok Journal: Voice of the Veteran Community, joins Pete and Joe to discuss some of the most basic framing tools for understanding foreign policy: the elements of national power. ***All opinions belong solely to those who expressed them and reflect the positions of no other entities*...

Evolution of Military Affairs: Part II 20.02.2024 57:35

Joe and Pete finish up discussing the evolution of warfare . ***All opinions expressed are those solely of those individuals and no other entity's*** ***Our music credit: “Circus of Freaks” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

The Evolution of Military Affairs: Part 1 13.02.2024 49:07

***All opinions expressed are those of the speakers and reflect the position of no other entities*** This is the first of a two-part episode which looks at the history of warfare through a theory called "Revolutions in Military Affairs." Sorry for the late posting and audio quality issues-we had a devil of a time battling the audio software gremlins this week and lost. HAVE A REQUEST FOR AN EPISOD...

Defense Innovation 06.02.2024 52:09

***ALL OPINIONS EXPRESSED ARE THOSE OF THE INDIVIDUALS ALONE AND NO OTHER ENTITY's*** On this conversation with our colleague, Sean Marquis, we discuss the history and drivers of national security innovation, in particular where the "next big thing" ideas come from and the role that the military-industrial complex plays in it. For links and details, please visit brasstacticspodcast.com/home. Have...

The American Urge to Intervene 29.01.2024 55:18

***ALL OPINIONS EXPRESSED ARE THOSE OF THE INDIVIDUALS AND NO OTHER ENTITIES*** Thank you for giving our very first episode a listen! Since this was our first episode, we wanted to start off by putting US foreign policy tendencies in a historic and cultural context. Why does the United States of America seem compelled to intervene in conflicts happening all around the world when they seem to be no...