The Oct. 7 War and Israel’s Unfinished Fight
Elliot Kaufman and Yonah Jeremy Bob talk with host Cliff May about the outcome of Israel’s elections, jihadi threats that have been diminish...
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20 of 339 episodesCanada’s Anti-Zionist Crack Up
Casey Babb is Director of The Promised Land at theMacdonald-Laurier Institute in Ottawa and an international fellow with the Institute for N...
How Goes the Jihad?
Richard Landes is a historian specializing in medieval millennial thinking. His 2022 book, “ Can ‘The Whole World’ Be Wrong? Lethal Journali...
Confronting Threats and Building Consensus
Leon Panetta has been there and done that. From joining theArmy in the 1960s, to serving in Congress for more than a decade and a half, to d...
The Houthis, Tehran, and the Deep Red Sea (Cliff May feat. Edmund Fitton-Brown & Bridget Toomey)
Since declaring a blockade against Saudi Arabia on July 20, the Houthis have struck vessels in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, fired missi...
Strait Lines
Xi is in Washington, shaking hands and smiling as the People’s Liberation Army prepares for aggression in the Pacific. Putin continues to tr...
Confronting Authoritarians around the Globe
Russia is turning captured Orthodox parishes into tools of occupation while holding tens of thousands of abducted Ukrainian children as leve...
Inside the White House on 9/11
Sept. 11, 2001 began as a beautiful late summer day in New York City and Washington, DC. Then, out of what was literally a clear blue sky, t...
The U.S. Retreat from Afghanistan: 5 Years On
On August 26, an ISIS-K suicide bomber killed 13 American service members and roughly 170 Afghans at Abbey Gate, one of the entrances to Kab...
25 Years of UN/NGO Racism
In late Summer of 2001, the UN hosted what it called the “World Conference on Racism” in Durban, South Africa. Instead of combating racism,...
World's First Super-Terrorist
Joby Warrick, a fine storyteller and longtime national security correspondent for the Washington Post, has written a biography of the most i...
Where in the World Is Monty? (Cliff May feat. Mark Montgomery)
FDD’s RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery is a travelin’ man. He’s just back from Taiwan and Ukraine. He joins host Cliff May to debrief what he saw...
A Rumor of War
A week ago, President Trump seemed to have decided to hit the Islamic Republic of Iran hard – to destroy what’s left of its missile arsenals...
Axis of Aggressors: China, Russia, Iran & North Korea
The United States faces the most complex geostrategic threat since 1945: an Axis of Aggressors — China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea — incr...
Britain’s New PM and Yemen’s Old Houthis
Two places we need to watch carefully right now: the United Kingdom, which has just installed its seventh prime minister in a decade, and Ye...
Iran, AI, and the Death of Traditional Warfare
Forget nukes and stealth jets — the next war may just be won with algorithms, drone swarms, and who spends smarter, not bigger. FDD Research...
The Third World Wants You – Not in a Good Way
This week, Iran's rulers fired on commercial vessels attempting to transit the Strait of Hormuz -- an egregious violation of the Memorandum...
NATO Summit: Alliances under Strain
As NATO members head to Ankara, the Alliance is under strain — clashing over defense spending levels, the Russo-Ukrainian and US-Iran wars,...
Of Presidents and Persians
A century of failed diplomacy, hostage crises, secret arms deals, war and even murder. Dr. Tevi Troy, an American presidential historian and...
War and Peace and Other Possibilities
A memorandum of understanding with Iran isn't peace – it's a fragile ceasefire with a regime whose ideology traces back to 1,400 years of ji...