542 | CIA Director Turns Up in Moscow
CIA Director John Ratcliffe made an unusual and unannounced trip to Moscow and Washington is saying virtually nothing about it. The world of...
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Target USA Podcast by WTOP
Whether its terrorists, anarchists, cyber criminals or nation states, America has a target on its back. WTOP National Security Correspondent J.J. Green investigates the threats facing the U....
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20 of 543 episodes541 | Trump’s Threats Abroad: Oman, Iran and a New Opening to North Korea
President Trump threatens Oman over Iran as retired Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery warns his rhetoric could undermine U.S. strategy. Meanwhile, f...
540 | Deception, Danger and the Iran War
President Trump was secretly moved off Air Force One and onto another aircraft during his trip to Turkey amid a reported Iranian threat. Ret...
539 | When Wars Collide
The United States finds itself at the center of two of the world's most dangerous conflicts. In the Middle East, the war with Iran is testin...
538 | Two Wars, No Easy Exit: Iran Escalates as Sudan Disappears
The war with Iran is widening, but Washington still has no clear path to end it. Former U.S. Ambassador to NATO Kurt Volker argues that limi...
537 | Ukraine Is Not Breaking — But Kyiv Is Worried
Retired Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery, Sr. Fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, joins us from Kyiv with a direct assessme...
536 | Two Wars, One World on Edge
As Russia unleashes one of its largest missile and drone attacks on Kyiv, a resident describes what it's like to survive another night under...
535 | The Iran Deal That Never Really Existed
The latest U.S.-Iran fighting didn't erupt because diplomacy collapsed. According to geopolitical analyst Nick Redman, the negotiations may...
534 | Evidence Suggests Russia is Losing War with Ukraine
Ukrainian MP Halyna Yanchenko watched an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin recently. For the first time she saw a man that loo...
533 | Robert Wilkie: Winning in Ukraine and Iran Is the Key to Containing China
Former Veterans Affairs Secretary and former senior Pentagon official Robert Wilkie joins Target USA to argue that today's wars are not isol...
532 | The Shooting Stopped. The Countdown Didn't: Inside the Fragile U.S.-Iran Deal
The U.S. and Iran have agreed to stop fighting and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, but the toughest issues—including Iran's nuclear program and...
531 | The Ambassador Who Biked the Ukraine War Front Line
After four years covering the war in Ukraine, I've rarely encountered intelligence as insightful as that gathered by retired Swedish Ambassa...
530 | DEAL OR THE DELUSION? Inside Trump's Struggle to End the Iran War
The military operation was a success. The strategy may have been a failure. In this episode, Gordon Gray is the Kuwait Professor of Gulf and...
529 | Putin’s Pressure Point — Estonia Says Russia Is Weaker Than It Looks
In this explosive episode, Estonia’s Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna delivers a stark warning about Russia’s growing instability and the esc...
528 | The US War With Iran: A Conflict With No Clear Winner
Where does the US war with Iran stand? One day there's talk of peace; the next they are shooting at each other. Husain Haqqani, Pakistan's f...
527 | Inside the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting: America's New Threat Environment
A rare insider look at the 2026 White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting. Former Secret Service Deputy Director A.T. Smith explains how t...
526 | The War in Iran: A Stalemate is unfolding
Grant Rumley, Meisel Family Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute, and Nick Redman, Director of Analysis at Oxford Analytica from Dow Jo...
525 | The U.S.–Iran Crisis, the Hormuz Blockade, and Donald Trump's fight with the Pope
The U.S.–Iran crisis has entered a volatile new phase—and the stakes are rising fast. In this episode, Ambassador Gordon Gray, veteran diplo...
524 | Civilization on the Brink? Trump’s Threat, the Stepdown, and the New Geometry of Power
In one of the most volatile stretches of the Iran conflict, a warning came from President Donald Trump that “a whole civilization will die”...
523 | The War in Iran: Power, Pressure, and the New Global Order
In this episode, Ambassador Gordon Gray, the Kuwait Professor of Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Affairs at the Elliott School of International A...