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Angry Planet
Conversations about conflict on an angry planet. Created, produced, and hosted by Matthew Gault and Jason Fields781951Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/warcollege. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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How We Thought the First Year Would Go
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On January 28, 2025, I sat down with Aram Shabanian to talk about how we th...
On Spectacles of Cruelty
On the last Angry Planet of 2025, novelist and Marine Corps veteran Phil Klay returns to reflect on a year of spectacle and cruelty.
Between the...
Google’s Former CEO Is Dancing in Ukraine
Earlier this year journalist Ben Makuch caught a glimpse of Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, dancing at a club in Kyiv. It was a surreal moment...
‘Capitalism Is a Series of Regime Changes’
Another week and another Angry Planet about the horrifying systems that rule our lives.
Is there a depressive theme running through the work rig...
The US Government’s AI Grand Bargain
The White House is portraying the race to adopt AI as an existential crisis. It’s the next Manhattan Project, they say, a technology so important it w...
Deadwood: The Town that Made the Wild West
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This week on Angry Planet we’re taking a break from the horrors of the pres...
Learning to Love the Stagnant Order
Is your Empire feeling less than fresh? Does it feel like the modern world’s best days are behind it? Do conquest and global power politics not hit as...
‘Goliath’s Curse’ and the Surprising Benefits of Societal Collapse
We’re obsessed with apocalypses, big and small. We fantasize about what the future might look like after the fall of society and fear the coming tribu...
Yes, US Strikes On Alleged Drug Traffickers Are Illegal. That Won’t Stop Them
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This week on Angry Planet we have returning guest and former judge advocate...
Vanessa Guillén and the Importance of Speaking Up
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The episode is about Vanessa Guillén, a US soldier who was murdered at Fort...
Assassinations Are Shitposts Now
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Political assassins often have incoherent politics and Tyler Robinson is no...
The War On Terror on Drugs
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On September 2, 2025 the United States escalated its decades long War on Dr...
Traveling America’s ‘Murderland’
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The Pacific Northwest is known for its startling natural beauty, precocious...
After Xi
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All things move towards their end, even seemingly omnipotent political lead...
Does the U.S. Need an Independent Cyber Force?
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If the internet is a battlefield, does that mean the United States needs a...
Hunting Nazis Online With Canadian Journalists
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Journalists and Nazis have changed a lot in the years since the end of Worl...
How Many Nukes Does It Take to Win a War? (Trick Question)
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The world is living with a Cold War hangover. The logic of deterrence, whic...
A History of the Iranian Nuclear Program
Sometimes it’s good to back up and ask the basic questions: How do we know Iran was even developing nuclear weapons?
On this episode of the show...
Talking With the Military Ethics Professor Who Resigned in Protest
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Pauline Shanks Kaurin PhD. was, until recently, the Stockdale Chair for Pro...
The Iran Strikes Beg the Question: What Is Airpower For?
You can’t win a war with airpower alone, despite what the U.S. Air Force will tell you. For more than 100 years, the masters of the air have promised...
Libya, China, and the Outlaw Ocean
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The ocean is vast, beautiful, and lawless. Thousands of miles from any coas...
Silicon Valley Wants ‘More Everything Forever’
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The futures of the past have curdled into the nightmares of the present. Th...
America’s Favorite Gunfighters and the Birth of the Old West
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America loves the Western. Stories about frontier towns, outlaws and lawmen...
The Horror of AI Generals Making Command Decisions
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Palantir, Anduril and a suite of other Tolkien-inspired tech nightmares wan...
America’s Pivot to the Pacific
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The Pentagon has been trying to pivot to the Pacific for years now. Under P...
India and Pakistan: Nuclear Neighbors on the Brink
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Recorded 5/7/25
India and Pakistan have been unhappy neighbors since...
Donald Trump Wants to Divide Up the World With His ‘Friends’
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Great power competition has gotten old for President Donald Trump—never one...
Why An Empire Eats
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Conquest is back baby! Eastern Europe, Taiwan, Greenland, Canada? It’s all...
Erdogan’s Path to Pure Authoritarianism
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Turkey’s president has grabbed a bit more power for himself with the recent...
Immigration Policy As Defense Policy
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Special for our international listeners, did you know you can now buy a pat...
Life Inside Wagner Before and After Prigozhin
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For mercenaries, death is a business. It’s all about finding the right mark...
The Cult of Rationalism in Silicon Valley
A lot of the people designing America’s technology and close to the center of American power believe some deeply weird shit. We already talked to jour...
How Israel Is Using Microsoft AI to Pick Targets in Gaza
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The Israeli military is using AI products from Microsoft to conduct its war...
Welcome to the Nerd Reich
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We’re living in a bizarre age of technofascism. The richest man who has eve...
The American Iron Dome Is an Expensive Boondoggle That Won’t Work
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President Donald Trump wants to build an American Iron Dome. He even signed...
The End of U.S. Soft Power
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U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is the interim head of USAID, for howev...
Lost Episode: ‘Goodbye Globalization: The Return of a Divided World’
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Goodbye Globalization: The Return of a Divided<...
Pete Hegseth and the Surreal World of the Civ-Mil Divide With Phil Klay
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Between the idea and the reality falls the shadow. Marine Corps veteran J.D...
‘Putin’s Revenge.’ Lucian Kim on Why Russia Invaded Ukraine
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It’s hard to read the mind of a dictator, but that doesn’t mean it’s not wo...
Syria, Authoritarianism, and U.S. Politics
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This week on Angry Planet writer David Faris joins us to talk about his tim...