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Eric flies solo in this episode (while Eliot is traveling in Europe) and hosts guest Paul D. Miller, Professor of Practice in International Affairs at Georgetown University and former NSC Director for Afghanistan and Pakistan in the Bush 43 Administration. They discuss the recent Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) report on the collapse of the Afghan National Defen...
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Eliot and Eric welcome retired Australian Major General Mick Ryan, author of The Future of Warfare, Futura Doctrina newsletter on Substack, and former head of the Australian War College. They discuss the ongoing fighting around Bakhmut, the prospects for both the Russian and Ukrainian militaries respectively in the weeks and months ahead, how this conflict might end, and the utility of science ...
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Eliot and Eric chew over the developments in Ukraine. They consider divisions within and among West European governments, the question of what defeat of Russia and victory for Ukraine means in practical terms, the lingering overestimation of Russian possibilities and underestimation of Ukrainian potential on the battlefield, and the potential role of China providing lethal aid to Russia. They c...
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Eric and Eliot are joined by former New York Times reporter and editor Philip Taubman, current lecturer at Stanford University&#39;s Center for International Security and Cooperation, and the author of In The Nation&#39;s Service: The Life and Times of George P. Shultz (Stanford University Press, 2023). They discuss the character of George Shultz, his role in executing the Reagan Administration&#39;s strat...
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Eliot and Eric host Henri Barkey, the Bernard and Betha Cohen Professor of International Relations at Lehigh University and adjunct fellow for Middle East Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. They discuss Henri&#39;s recent article on Turkey&#39;s forthcoming election, the nature of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s authoritarianism, the impact of the recent earthquake on Erdogan&#39;s standing with the Turki...
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Eric and Eliot are on their own. They talk about Ukraine, the China Balloon episode, and developments in Turkey and whether or not that relationship is a harbinger of a new day in U.S multilateralism. They ask if the U.S. find new mechanisms like AUKUS to supplement its bilateral relationships in the Indo-Pacific and will it resort to &quot;mini-lateralism&quot; in Europe with countries in the East who a...
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Eliot and Eric host Robert W. Kagan, the Stephen and Barbara Friedman Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of Of Paradise and Power, The Return of History, The World America Made, and The Jungle Grows Back to discuss his new book The Ghost at the Feast: America and the Collapse of World Order, 1900-1941. They discuss the irresponsibility of American policy making after World Wa...
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Eliot and Eric welcome Constanze Stelzenmuller, the Director of the Center on the United States and Europe and the Fritz Stern Chair on Germany and Transatlantic Relations at the Brookings Institution. They discuss the current row over Germany providing Leopard Tanks to Ukraine, the political constraints on German Chancellor Olof Scholz, the role of Cold War ostpolitik on contemporary policy de...
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Eric and Eliot welcome John Maurer, Professor of Strategy and Security Studies at the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies at Air University in Alabama and author of Competitive Arms Control, Nixon, Kissinger and SALT, 1969-1972 (Yale University Press, 2022). They discuss the competitive and cooperative approaches to arms control, interagency deliberations and conflicts in the Nixon Adminis...
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Eric and Eliot welcome their SAIS colleague Michael Mandelbaum to talk about his recent book, The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy. Among other topics, they discuss realism and idealism in U.S. policy, the historical origins of American policymakers’ traditional reliance on the economic instruments of national power, the prospects for U.S. policy towards Russia-Ukraine, China, and Iran, bas...
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Eliot and Eric welcome the husband and wife team of Peter Baker of New York Times and Susan Glasser of The New Yorker to discuss their new book, The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2022. They discuss the chronic dysfunction of the Donald Trump national security team, the relationships among James Mattis, H.R. Master, John Kelly, John Bolton, Mike Pompeo, and other senior officials, Trum...
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Eliot and Eric look forward to the holidays and review the last year. They talk about the historical significance of the war in Ukraine, the current situation, and possible outcomes. They discuss whether or not this has been a good year for authoritarians around the world and review the situation in China, the prospects for U.S.-China relations (specifically concerning Taiwan), and the popular ...
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Eric and Eliot welcome William Inboden to discuss his new book, The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War and the World on the Brink. They discuss the existing historical literature on Reagan&#39;s Presidency and foreign policy, this new book&#39;s contribution to the literature, the complexity of the world that Reagan and his colleagues faced in the 1980&#39;s, the role of individuals like Secretaries o...
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Eric and Eliot welcome Georgetown Professor Emeritus Robert Lieber to discuss his new book, Indispensable Nation. They discuss the nature of the &quot;rules-based&quot; international order, the unique role that U.S. policy plays in sustaining the order, the true disruptive challenges to the order, the nature of political opposition to a robust U.S. foreign policy, political &quot;realism&quot; and its flaws, as we...
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Eric and Eliot welcome Council on Foreign Relations Fellow Ray Takeyh to discuss the ongoing popular uprising in Iran. They talk about Ray’s article on Iran’s next revolution in the current issue of Commentary, the state of play in the protests, the weaknesses of the regime, comparisons between the 1979 Revolution, the 2009 election protests, and the current situation. Along with political diss...
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Eric and Eliot welcome Duke University professor, Peter Feaver, to discuss the state of civil-military relations, the recent statement on the subject by former Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretaries of Defense, the damage done to civil-military relations under Trump, and how to repair the damage. They also discuss with Peter, who drafted the 2006 National Security Strategy docume...
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Eric and Eliot discuss Ukraine’s birthday gift to Vladimir Putin, likely Russian responses, and Eliot’s Atlantic article on Putin’s nuclear threats. Eric eats his words about Liz Truss, and they discuss the relative merits of Nero Wolfe and Daniel Silva for escapist reading.
Shield of the Republic is a Bulwark podcast co-sponsored by the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virg...
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Eric welcomes Eliot back from his sojourn in Poland and Ukraine. They discuss U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss’s early appointments on national security and the review of Britain’s defense policy she has ordered, Biden’s appointment of a new Ambassador to Russia, Eliot’s impressions of Ukraine and Volodymyr Zelensky. They also analyze Vladimir Putin’s speech and mobilization order and discuss Eric...
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Why Russia&#39;s Military Got Ukraine So Wrong
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Eric and Eliot discuss what they have been writing lately (links below), the situation in Ukraine, the reasons for why Russia analysts got things wrong while military historians got them right, prospects for a renewed Iran nuclear agreement, and whether or not the the United States can handle two near peer adversaries at the same time.
Shield of the Republic is a Bulwark podcast co-sponsored by...
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Imperial Russia, Past and Present (with John Herbst)
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Eric welcomes back Eliot from travels and illness to host John Herbst who was the U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine during the Orange Revolution. They discuss Russia’s imperial past and present, the Biden Administration’s 3 billion dollar military assistance package, the course of the war, the assassination of Darya Dugina, and the prospects for diplomacy and grade the Administration’s efforts to mana...
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Peak China and the Lessons of the Cold War (with Hal Brands and Michael Beckley)
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While Eliot is away on vacation, Eric hosts authors Hal Brands and Michael Beckley whose new book, Danger Zone: The Coming Conflict with China, drops next week. They discuss the concept of &quot;peak China,&quot; why conflict with China may be coming sooner than we think, and what lessons for strategic competition with China we can learn from the U.S.-Soviet Cold War experience, and they evaluate the Bid...
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Did America Get China Wrong? (with Professor Aaron Friedberg)
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Eric and Eliot host long time friend and colleague Professor Aaron Friedberg of Princeton to discuss Aaron’s new book Getting China Wrong. They cover why we have persistently underestimated China’s rise as a revisionist power, the failures of the West’s “engagement” strategy, the elements of a different approach to China, dividing Russia and China, and the sorry state of academic political scie...
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Eric and special guest host Bill Kristol discuss the war in Ukraine with former Ambassador to Poland and former Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Daniel Fried. They assess the military situation, the economic dimension of the conflict, what more can be done on sanctions, the prospects for European unity, and the danger of Putin deploying nuclear weapons to Belarus and the stakes...
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Eric and Eliot return with special guest David Kramer, the Managing Director of Global Policy at the George W. Bush Institute and former Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, and who incidentally has just been sanctioned by the Russian government (wear it as a badge of honor David!). They discuss the status of the war in Ukraine, the nature of the Russian regime, ...
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Hiatus
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Eric and Eliot will be taking a short hiatus to travel.
In the meantime, please send us your feedback and suggestions at shieldoftherepublic@gmail.com.
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Putin&#39;s War and European Politics (with Nick Cohen)
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Eric and Eliot welcome Guardian columnist and Spectator blogger Nick Cohen (no relation to Eliot) and author of the several books including What&#39;s Left? They discuss the impact of Putin&#39;s war on Ukraine on European politics, the role of anti-Communism and anti-Fascism in post-war Europe, the transformation of the Labour Party under Keir Starmer, why Russian money in London was unable to purchas...
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The War&#39;s Decisive Moment
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Eric and Eliot dissect the war in Ukraine and discuss Eliot&#39;s articles in the Atlantic and Foreign Affairs. What is the new phase of the war? Are Russian forces exhausted, what is their strategy? How will the Ukrainians counter? Is the Biden package enough? Eliot asks Eric about the lessons of Ukraine for other parts of the world and his Bulwark article on ending the policy of strategic ambigui...
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Security in the Indo-Pacific (with Charlie Edel)
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Eliot and Eric welcome Charlie Edel, Australia Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, to discuss security in the Indo-Pacific, the role of Australia, the AUKUS partnership, John Quincy Adams and U.S. foreign policy—do the &quot;restrainers&quot; read Adams correctly?—and the role of literature in understanding history.
Shield of the Republic is a Bulwark podcast co-sponsored by the ...
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War, Myth-making, and Democracy (with Elizabeth Samet)
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Eliot and Eric host Professor Elizabeth Samet of the US Military Academy to discuss her new book Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness. They examine the role of mythology in justifying US military action.
Was World War II the &quot;Good War&quot; and was the &quot;Greatest Generation&quot; different from subsequent generations of Americans caught up in fighting the nation&#39;...
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The Ancients Illuminate Modern Statecraft (with Barry Strauss)
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Shield of the Republic is a Bulwark podcast co-sponsored by the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia.
Eliot and Eric talk with ancient historian extraordinaire Barry Strauss. They discuss his new book on Antony, Cleopatra, Octavian, and the Battle of Actium which served as the foundation of the Roman Empire. They discuss what a study of the ancients can tell us about st...
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Eric and Eliot consider the first month of Russia-Ukraine War and Eliot&#39;s Atlantic article on why it has been so hard for some observers to admit that Ukraine is winning. They also talk about how the Russian military&#39;s failures to achieve its objectives might lead to stalemate, and how we should think about the risks of escalation and what is a theory of victory.
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Zelensky, Churchill, Reagan (with Andrew Roberts)
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Eric and Eliot host British author and historian Andrew Roberts and discuss his revisionist account of King George III and how a good man was nonetheless the monarch under whom the American colonies were lost.
They discuss his new podcast Secrets of Statecraft, the most important characteristics of leadership in wartime, and the role Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is playing today and i...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1647544680" data-format="short_date">Mar 17, 2022</span></span>
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Joe Biden, War President (with Kori Schake)
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Eric and Eliot host Kori Schake of the American Enterprise Institute. They discuss civil-military relations, Joe Biden as a war President, the struggle over foreign policy in the GOP, and the impact of the war in Ukraine on the trajectory of U.S. national security policy. All three endorse a trillion dollar defense budget.
Shield of the Republic is co-sponsored by the Miller Center of Public Af...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1646319524" data-format="short_date">Mar 03, 2022</span></span>
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Russia As a Pariah State
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Eric and Eliot discuss Putin&#39;s illegal war of aggression against Ukraine, what Eliot heard at the Munich Security Conference and in Poland last week, as well as what the West&#39;s theory of victory should be in the conflict over Ukraine, and how should the U.S. and the West more broadly should treat Russia now that it has become a pariah state.
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1645833240" data-format="short_date">Feb 25, 2022</span></span>
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Neo-Maosim in China (with Jude Blanchette)
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Eliot and Eric host CSIS&#39;s Jude Blanchette to discuss Neo-Maosim in China, the impact of Xi Jinping&#39;s personalistic authoritarianism on China&#39;s domestic and foreign policy, the Xi-Putin joint statement last week, and prospects for Sino-Russian relations, as well as Chinese science fiction and what it might tell us about Chinese society.
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1644922800" data-format="short_date">Feb 15, 2022</span></span>
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Secret Origin Story
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Eliot returns from travels to discuss the secret origin story of the Shield of the Republic podcast, a review of the Biden administration&#39;s national security policy in its first year, the difficulties that the President has faced in articulating a foreign policy, the deficiencies of his national security apparatus, the impact of the catastrophic departure from Afghanistan, the AUKUS decision, a...
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Heeding the Lessons of the Cold War (with Hal Brands &amp; Bill Kristol)
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Mystery guest host (Bill Kristol) joins Eric for a discussion with Johns Hopkins SAIS Professor Hal Brands about his new book the Twilight Struggle. They discuss the lessons of America&#39;s cold war strategic competition with the USSR for today&#39;s era of strategic competition with China and Russia—the role of strategy, economic competition, political warfare, and more.


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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1642695300" data-format="short_date">Jan 20, 2022</span></span>
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Why the Bad Guys are Winning (with Anne Applebaum)
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Historian, journalist, and essayist Anne Applebaum joins Eric and Eliot from Poland. They discuss Vladimir Putin&#39;s grand strategy, the conflict between democracy and authoritarianism, why the &quot;bad guys are winning,&quot; as well as the state of American democracy and the January 6 insurrection. We hope all our listeners had a safe, healthy and happy holiday season and a happy new year.


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Brian Katulis: Public Opinion &amp; Foreign Policy
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Guest Brian Katulis of the Middle East Institute and Center for American Progress joins Eric and Eliot to discuss public opinion and foreign policy, the lack of support for policies of &quot;restraint&quot; in polling, American exceptionalism, connecting policy debates to the concerns of everyday Americans, the deficiencies of the Biden Administration&#39;s &quot;technocratic managerialism&quot; and the need for a new...
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Three Dangerous Men (with Seth Jones)
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Eric and Eliot discuss three dangerous men (Russian General Valeriy Gerasimov, the late Iranian IRGC leader Ghassem Soleimani and PRC Central Military Commission Vice Chairman Zhang Youxia) with Seth Jones who has written a new book on irregular or, if you prefer, political warfare. They discuss the active conflict in this domain in which the US finds itself with Russia, China, and Iran as Russ...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1637751600" data-format="short_date">Nov 24, 2021</span></span>
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There is Nothing For You Here (with Fiona Hill)
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Former National Security Council Senior Director for Europe (and star impeachment witness) Fiona Hill is this week&#39;s guest discussing her book, There is Nothing For You Here, her service in the Trump Administration, the mortification of Trump&#39;s press conference with Putin at Helsinki (and transient thoughts of faking a seizure to make it stop) as well as the causes of and remedies for authorita...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1636455600" data-format="short_date">Nov 09, 2021</span></span>
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Woodrow Wilson and the Great War (with Philip Zelikow)
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In this episode Eliot and Eric explore why Woodrow Wilson was unable to end World War I in 1916 despite the exhaustion of Britain, France, and Germany (the main combatants on the Western Front), how the lack of an adequate staffing may have contributed, the rise of a staffing culture inside the US government and the more recent loss of staffing and strategic competence, the role of reviewing pa...
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48m
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1635242400" data-format="short_date">Oct 26, 2021</span></span>
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&quot;A Strategic Failure&quot;: The War in Afghanistan with Carter Malkasian
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A discussion of why the war in Afghanistan was in General Mark Milley’s words “a strategic failure,” why the Afghan government failed to inspire Afghans to fight for their own country, and the legacy of former ambassador and peace agreement negotiator Zalmay Khalilzad. Our special guest is Carter Malkasian, who was a political advisor to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Commanding Gene...
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<span><span class="js-time" data-epochtime="1633669200" data-format="short_date">Oct 08, 2021</span></span>
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