Historian Joseph Ellis on the Revolutionary Summer of 1776 June 17
GUEST: JOSEPH ELLIS Pulitzer Prize-winning historian JOSEPH ELLIS returns to the legacy of the American Founding Fathers by telling two parallel stories of the political and military battles of the history-changing months of the summer of 1776. As [...]

Sexual assault in the U.S. military May 31
Guests: Anu Bhagwati, Jessica Hinves Last month an annual survey from the Pentagon showed that sexual assaults in the armed forces rose by 35 percent. There were an estimated 26,000 sexual assaults in 2012 with over 12,000 active [...]

My father the spy May 30
Guest: Scott Johnson SCOTT JOHNSON was 14 when his father pulled the car into a Detroit parking lot and told his son that he was a spy. For years Johnson believed his Dad was a diplomat with the [...]

Debating the future of Guantanamo Bay May 29
Guests: Karen Greenberg and Charles Stimson President Obama has renewed his long-standing pledge to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay , Cuba . In a speech last week addressing U.S. counterterrorism policy, he said he would [...]

"Fire and Forget" and the value of war stories May 27
Guests:  Matt Gallagher and Roy Scranton [REBROADCAST] Fire and Forget is an anthology of short stories about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the post-war lives of those who served. All written by veterans, the stories reflect [...]

Investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill on Dirty Wars May 21
GUEST: JEREMY SCAHILL Much of the Obama Administration’s national security policy relies on the work of  the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) and the CIA’s Special Activities Division. According to our guest JEREMY SCAHILL, National Security Correspondent for [...]

Bunker Hill: A City, A Siege, A Revolution May 13
GUEST: NATHANIEL PHILBRICK Was the order, “Don’t fire ‘till you see the whites of their eyes” really shouted at rebels near Boston’s Breed’s Hill? How was Boston the ‘cradle of liberty’ as one in five families were slave [...]

Hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay — ethics and the law May 8
Hour 1 Guests:  Carol Rosenberg, Jonathan Marks and Scott Allen Over 100 inmates at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center have been on a hunger strike since February in protest of their seemingly indefinite detention and the alleged mishandling [...]

'Embers of War': Historian Fredrik Logevall traces long roots of Vietnam War May 2
GUEST: FREDRIK LOGEVALL [REBROADCAST] Why did Vietnam became the setting for one of the longest and bloodiest struggles of the entire post-1945 era, and why did two Western powers, first France and then the United States, lose their [...]

Syria: crossing the red line and U.S. action forward May 1
Guests:  Brian Katulis and Michael Noonan Back in August 2012, President Obama warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that if he used chemical weapons against his own people, he would be crossing a “red line” and that such actions [...]

Vali Nasr: Dispensable Nation April 25
Guest: Vali Nasr Middle East scholar VALI NASR knows President Obama’s foreign policy inside and out.  From 2009 to 2011, Nasr was a senior adviser to Ambassador Richard Holbrooke and worked closely with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. [...]

What drives radicalization; then media coverage of the Boston bombings April 22
Guests: John Horgan and Rem Rieder What does it take for a young man to go from being what friends said was a "regular" kid to someone who commits a heinous act of violence? What would motivate that [...]

"Fire and Forget" and the value of war stories April 18
Guests:  Matt Gallagher and Roy Scranton Fire and Forget is an anthology of short stories about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the post-war lives of those who served. All written by veterans, the stories reflect the [...]

Continuing coverage of the bombings in Boston April 17
Guests:  John Chovanes, Ron Fournier and Heather Hurlburt As the details surrounding Monday's bombings at the Boston Marathon unfold, we'll continue our coverage. We're joined in this hour of Radio Times by Cooper University Hospital trauma surgeon JOHN [...]

What's behind North Korea's latest threats? April 3
Guests: Joel Wit and Marcus Noland North Korea's relatively young and untested leader Kim Jong-un  has been making some bold threats recently.  Yesterday, he announced the country would open a nuclear reactor it had closed five years ago.  [...]

An update on the U.S. Guantanamo Bay detention facility April 1
CAROL ROSENBERG, BENJAMIN WITTES & DAVID FRAKT At least 31 prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention center have joined a hunger strike to protest the conditions and their indefinite detainment, according to some of the detainees’ lawyers. When [...]

Assessing the media coverage of the war in Iraq March 20
Guests:  JONATHAN LANDAY, MARK THOMPSON In 2004, the New York Times ran an unprecedented apology for its reporting in the lead-up to the U.S. war in Iraq admitting that their work "was not as rigorous as it should have [...]

The legacy of the war in Iraq March 19
Guests:  CELESTE ZAPPALA, LAURA JACOBY, PAUL RIECKHOFF Ten years ago today, the U.S. launched its invasion of Iraq without finding weapons of mass destruction but eventually toppling the reign of Saddam Hussein.  Since the war began at least [...]

Dueling Budgets March 18
Hour 1 Guests: Michael Tanner and Jared Bernstein Last week House Republicans and Senate Democrats unveiled their competing budget plans. House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s proposal aims to balance the budget in a decade by cutting $4.6 [...]

Lincoln's code: the fundamentals of international war time conduct March 15
[REBROADCAST] 1863 was a very bloody year as thousands of Americans were killed in many Civil War battles, despite the hopeful start of the year, as the Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Lincoln on January 1st. But [...]

The debate over the use of unmanned drones over U.S. skies March 12
GUESTS:  BEN GIELOW and JAY STANLEY In five years the Federal Aviation Administration estimates that there will be 7,500 commercially operated drones flying in the United States, and even more if you include public institutions. The idea of [...]

The Chavez Legacy March 11
Guests: George Ciccariello-Maher, Francisco Toro Last week, former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez died after a two-year battle with cancer at the age of 58. He was a polarizing figure in Venezuela and the world. To some, he was a [...]

The civil war in Syria: The conflict, U.S. policy and how might it end March 6
GUESTS:  SAMER ABBOUD and ANDREW TABLER Last week, for the first time since the civil war in Syria began two years ago, the U.S. announced its support for the Syrian opposition movement.  In a major shift in policy, [...]

The Future of Guantanamo Bay March 1
Hour 1 Guests: Carol Rosenberg, Benjamin Wittes, David Frakt At least 31 prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention center have joined a hunger strike to protest the conditions and their indefinite detainment, according to some of the detainees’ [...]

Nuclear weapons and nonproliferation February 21
GUEST:  WARD WILSON North Korea conducted its third underground nuclear test last week, the same day President Obama addressed the country in his State of the Union speech.  Obama has made reducing the nation’s nuclear arsenal a priority [...]

Cybersecurity and the growing threats February 14
Guests: SIOBHAN GORMAN, ALAN PALLER and JAMES LEWIS On Tuesday, President Obama signed an Executive Order to protect the country’s critical infrastructure from cyber attacks.  As he announced Tuesday night in his State of the Union address, the [...]

Analyzing the State of the Union address and the Republican response February 13
Guests:  Ben Berger, Lara Brown and Imani Perry Last night, before Congress and the nation, President Obama addressed the state of the union and outlined his second term agenda.   He focused on the middle class, pledging action on [...]

Obama's drone strike policy February 8
The Obama administration’s use of drones for targeted killings has been drawing increasing attention and criticism from some.  In his confirmation hearings yesterday, John Brennan, Obama’s nominee for CIA director and current top counterterrorism adviser, faced questions and [...]

Opera Philadelphia premieres Pulitzer Prize-winning Silent Night February 8
On Christmas Eve, 1914, in the midst of shelling on the Western Front of World War 1, lower-ranking troops spontaneously created a truce, taking a break from the horrific trenches, singing Christmas carols with their enemies and burying [...]

The ongoing threat of al-Qaeda January 29
In her Congressional testimony last week regarding the attack on an American consulate in Benghazi, Hillary Clinton said that the recent seizure of an Algerian gas plant and the ongoing conflict in northern Mali were “all part of [...]

An end to the combat ban for women January 28
Last week Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced that he was ending the military’s ban on women serving in combat positions. “Female service members have faced the reality of combat, proving their willingness to fight and, yes, to die [...]

The Inauguration and Obama's next term January 22
Yesterday President Obama was sworn into his  second term as commander in chief of the United States , something that has only happened to 16 other U.S. Presidents.  The inaugural ceremony, though full of pomp and pageantry, didn't [...]

Journalist Mark Bowden on "The Finish" of Osama bin Laden January 11
[REBROADCAST] Journalist MARK BOWDEN returns to Radio Times to take us inside the rooms where the decisions were made to take down Osama bin Laden. Having access to President Obama, his national security advisors, and high ranking members [...]

The President's national security team nominations and the future of foreign policy January 10
In nominating Senator John Kerry as Secretary of State, Senator Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense and White House counter-terrorism advisor John Brennan to head the CIA, President Obama has signaled a change in the direction of American [...]

Congress, politics and the fiscal cliff January 2
In the wee hours of January 1, the Senate passed legislation that would raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans — those earning over $400,000, extend unemployment benefits for 99 weeks, and delay for two months $110 billion cuts [...]

Downsizing the Pentagon budget; then, what suicide bombers & rampage shooters have in common December 19
Should the U.S. slide off the fiscal cliff in a few weeks, over $55 billion in spending cuts a year for the next decade will kick in at the Pentagon. That amount added to the $487 billion in [...]

Lincoln's code: the fundamentals of international war time conduct December 19
1863 was a very bloody year as thousands of Americans were killed in many Civil War battles, despite the hopeful start of the year, as the Emancipation Proclamation was issued by President Lincoln on January 1st. But within [...]

A conversation with former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker December 13
Our guest in this hour of Radio Times, RYAN C. CROCKER, recently stepped down as U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan. Crocker is one of the nation’s most experienced diplomats, having served as Ambassador to Iraq, Pakistan, Syria, Kuwait and [...]

The attack in Benghazi, Susan Rice, and the GOP November 28
Yesterday, UN Ambassador Susan Rice met with Republican senators in an effort to explain remarks she made immediately following the September 11 attack on the US consulate and a nearby CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya that killed US [...]

Updates on Egypt & Syria November 27
Egypt’s elected president, Mohamed Morsi, sparked a new political crisis less than two years after a popular uprising ousted Hosni Mubarak with a decree this week that his decisions would be exempt from judicial review. New mass demonstrations [...]

The Israel/Gaza conflict November 20
As the air war over Israel and Gaza continues and Israeli's amass ground troops and tanks along the shared border, Egyptian-led efforts to negotiate a cease-fire are underway.  Israel has demanded that Hamas stop the ongoing rocket fire [...]

The Petraeus affair & its ramifications November 14
Hour 1 A stunning scandal has triggered the resignation of the most important military leader of modern U.S. history, David Petraeus, and has his successor of commander of the U.S. and NATO forces at war in Afghanistan, Gen. [...]

Journalist Mark Bowden on "The Finish" of Osama bin Laden October 25
Hour 2 Journalist MARK BOWDEN returns to Radio Times to take us inside the rooms where the decisions were made to take down Osama bin Laden. Having access to President Obama, his national security advisors, and high ranking [...]

The Taliban attack on Malala Yousufzai October 17
Hour 2 The vicious Oct. 9 attack by Taliban fighters on 14-year old Malala Yousufzai as she was returning home from school in Pakistan's Swat Valley has shocked the world.  Yousufzai and her father became outspoken advocates for the [...]

Sandusky sentenced; then, the civilian toll of drone strikes October 10
Hour 1 Yesterday, former Penn State football defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was sentenced to a minimum of 30 years for the sexual abuse of nine young men, a scandal that rocked Happy Valley and forced the ouster of [...]

Update on the unrest in Muslim-majority countries September 18
Hour 1 Violent protests against the United States government have broken out in more than 20 countries since last Tuesday, when the American ambassador, J. Christopher Stevens, and three other Americans were killed. These events are relatively small [...]

The Protests in North Africa and the Middle East September 14
Hour 1 The violent protests in the Arab world sparked by an anti-Islam video are spreading. On Tuesday armed militias attacked the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya killing four Americans including Ambassador Chris Stevens. Anti-American protesters also tried [...]

Kevin Powers: A war veteran's debut novel, "The Yellow Birds" September 12
Hour 2 Writer and 10-year U.S. Army veteran KEVIN POWERS will discuss his first novel, “The Yellow Birds,” which is based on his two years serving in the Iraq War. Guest host Maiken Scott will talk to Powers [...]

Update on the war in Afghanistan: Getting inside the 'insider attacks' August 28
Hour 1 As of last week, 2,000 American troops have been killed in the 11-year war in Afghanistan. This past weekend, Taliban insurgents killed 17 civilians, mostly by beheading, and in a separate attack, 10 Afghan soldiers. President [...]

Syria's civil war: An update August 9
Hour 1 The conflict in Syria has claimed more than 17,000 lives by some estimates. What started as a peaceful protest to President Bashar al-Assad’s regime almost a year and a half ago has turned into a bloody [...]

Two Vietnam War Marines' journey of friendship August 6
Hour 2 Two young Marines with very different backgrounds – one a rural Pennsylvanian, and the other from a small Japanese city – are wounded while fighting in Vietnam in 1968 and reunite decades later. Our guests — [...]

Rajiv Chandrasekaran on how the 2009 surge didn't restore "Little America" July 24
Hour 2 Americans built canals in Afghanistan’s Helmand River Valley, as a hopeful, transformative project during the Cold-War, to bring the country into the 20th century through irrigation, a Western-style school and co-ed club house. Years later this [...]

Mexico's post-election politics & violent cartels July 19
Hour 1 On July 1st, Mexican voters returned the PRI – the Institutional Revolutionary Party that controlled the Mexican presidency for 71 years until 2000 – to power by electing its telegenic candidate, former Governor Enrique Pena Nieto. [...]

Obama's Shadow War July 5
Hour 1 The Obama administration is facing mounting criticism for its use of armed drones to kill suspected terrorists in foreign countries.  A recent op-ed by former President Jimmy Carter in The New York Times pointed to a [...]

Women in the military and "The Invisible War" July 3
Hour 1 Thousands of women serve in the U.S. military; 142 have lost their lives in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Women make up 15% of the active duty force. Yet according to a startling new documentary, “The [...]

Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden June 28
Hour 1 Joseph R. "BEAU" BIDEN, III, the oldest son ofVice President Joe Biden, is Delaware’s Attorney General. Once a federal prosecutor in the United States Attorney's Office in Philadelphia, Biden’s career in public service in the Delaware [...]

Anthony Swofford's new memoir: 'Hotels, Hospitals, and Jails' June 13
Hour 2 ANTHONY SWOFFORD was a U.S. Marine Corps sniper in Operation Desert Storm.  He wrote about his experience in the gritty, bestselling book, "Jarhead,” which was also turned into a film.  Now Swofford has a new memoir [...]

Inside the crisis in Syria June 6
Hour 1 Since the uprising against Syrian president Bashar al-Assad's rule began  15 months ago, over 10,000 civilians have been killed.  The most recent massacre in Houla claimed at least 108 Syrians, many of them women and children [...]

Combat advising in Iraq with 3rd-generation Marine Owen West May 16
Hour 1 Combat advisors have been vital actors in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as they train indigenous security forces to fight their own conflicts. Our guest, OWEN WEST, a third-generation Marine, says military advising is a [...]

Afghanistan options, with Andrew Bacevich & Bing West May 7
Hour 1 President Obama flew into Afghanistan last week for a surprise visit on the one-year anniversary of the U.S. military raid into neighboring Pakistan that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Speaking to a global audience, President [...]

Cullen Murphy on The Inquisition & its modern legacy April 27
Hour 2 [REBROADCAST] Vanity Fair editor-at-large CULLEN MURPHY believes there is nothing new under the sun about interrogation. He says ingredients for a modern day inquisition are here today as bureaucracies, information technology, and surveillance keep expanding; and [...]

MEK: Who's lobbying for Iranian 'terrorist' group? March 21
Hour 1 The Iranian opposition group known as the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, or MEK, is listed by the U.S. State Department as a terrorist organization (pdf) for attacks on the Iranian government and for its work with the late Iraqi [...]

The way forward in Afghanistan & for its women March 20
Hour 1 The U.S. campaign in Afghanistan faced several major setbacks last week. In the wake of the reported massacre of 16 Afghan civilians by a U.S. soldier, President Hamid Karzai demanded that NATO troops pull out of [...]

Kony 2012, the controversy & a reality check March 13
Hour 2 Since the "KONY 2012" video went viral on March 5, over 75 million viewers have watched it online.  Created by the nonprofit organization Invisible Children, the video was produced to create awareness of the atrocities perpetrated [...]

What should be done about Iran? March 8
Hour 1 While visiting the U.S. earlier this week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asserted the right of Israel to attack Iran, raising concerns about a military confrontation in an already fragile Middle East. In response, in a [...]

Update and debate on Syria February 28
Hour 1 Officials from the United States and Arab and European countries, under the umbrella of the Friends of Syria, met in Tunisia last week to back a proposal for an immediate ceasefire to allow humanitarian assistance to [...]

The President's 2013 Budget: The Politics, the Military, & Tax Increases February 15
Hour 1 In his 2013 budget proposal unveiled on Monday, President Obama called for hundreds of  billions of dollars in new spending to restore the economy through expansions in transportation and education programs,  significant cuts in military spending [...]

Zoe Strauss: Capturing Philadelphia on film; then, Tuskegee Airman Maj. John L. Harrison January 26
Hour 2 Philadelphia artist ZOE STRAUSS pays attention to the joy and the pain that comes with the city’s neighborhoods – the poverty, substance addiction, segregation and cultural diversity – and captures scenes many of us would never [...]

Issues around bans on hiring smokers January 25
Hour 2 Pennsylvania's Geisinger Health System recently announced that starting in February it would no longer hire smokers and will screen for nicotine use among new employees. Pennsylvania is one of 20 states that allow bans on hiring [...]

Cullen Murphy on The Inquisition & its modern legacy January 24
Hour 1 Vanity Fair editor-at-large CULLEN MURPHY believes there is nothing new under the sun about interrogation. He says ingredients for a modern day inquisition are here today as bureaucracies, information technology, and surveillance keep expanding; and there [...]

Iraq update, including the fate of refugees January 10
Hour 1 Last week bomb attacks targeting Shiites in Iraq killed more than 72 people. Since the American troop withdrawal last month, there’s been growing concern about the increase in sectarian violence and political turmoil in Iraq. This [...]

Hazing, bullying and how to stop them January 5
Hour 2 A number of hazing-related deaths have made headlines in recent months. Florida A&M University drum major Robert Champion died within an hour of a hazing ritual, according to the state medical examiner, that involved “multiple blunt [...]

Congress, the President, the 2012 Election & the Rest of the World December 27
Hour 1 In Washington, lawmakers spent weeks battling over the extension of the payroll tax cut.  Democrats didn't budge and, under pressure, Republicans conceded.  Meanwhile, the President came up the winner in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, [...]

Doctors under fire amid 'Arab Spring' revolutions November 29
Hour 1 As the revolutions collectively known as “the Arab Spring” have rocked the Middle East and North Africa, medical professionals have often been caught in the crossfire. Dictators like Bashar Al-Assad in Syria and the late Moammar [...]

Assessing the war in Afghanistan & NATO November 11
Hour 1 On Veterans Day, we take stock of the Afghanistan war, now in its 10th year and winding down, but still bloody and rife with uncertainty. President Obama met with the head of the North Atlantic Treaty [...]

PTSD: A Mafia mole & NBA ref blows whistle on recovery November 4
Hour 1 BOB DELANEY’s life has already brought him deep inside worlds most of us can only dream about. In his first act, he spent three years infiltrating the Mafia as a young New Jersey state trooper. Then [...]

The Palestinians, Israel & the United Nations September 19
Hour 1 All indications are that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will go to the U.N. later this week to make a bid for statehood status. The Palestinians have several alternatives: to do nothing, to ask the Security Council [...]

Dana Priest on 'Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State' September 12
Hour 1 In the 10 years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks commemorated yesterday, the world has been utterly transformed. But so much of what has changed has been done in secret, classified and covered up by officials in [...]

"Out of the Shadows" — a radio documentary about Post-Traumatic Stress September 7
Hour 1 In our continuing coverage of the 10th anniversary of the events surrounding 9/11, we break from our usual format to air  “Out of the Shadows,” a WHYY special produced by Maiken Scott. Post-Traumatic Stress has become [...]

Joby Warrick, on 'The Triple Agent' from al-Qaeda who tricked the CIA August 29
Hour 1 On Dec. 30, 2009, a team of the CIA’s top terrorist hunters were waiting at a secret, fortified base in Afghanistan near the border with Pakistan. They were about to meet one of their most prized [...]

Politics, policy, the President & the 2012 election August 26
Hour 1 While President Obama is on vacation, Republican contenders for the Republican presidential nominee continue campaigning across the county.  A recent Gallup poll found the President's approval rating at an all-time low of 40 percent, and, were [...]

Late-summer update on Libya & the Arab Spring August 25
Hour 1 The 42-year reign of Col. Moammar Qaddafi in Libya appears to be over, or at least under immediate mortal threat, depending on how this week’s surprising storming of Tripoli by the Libyan rebels shakes out. Unlike [...]

Catching up on NJ politics and Chris Christie, then a Libya update August 22
Hour 1 The rumors that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will eventually join the crowded Republican field running for the 2012 GOP nomination for president just won’t die. But do those rumors say more about Governor Christie, or [...]

Christian Parenti on 'The Tropic of Chaos' August 15
Hour 1 Parts of Somalia are gripped by the worst famine in 60 years. Conflicts over water, either too scarce or too abundant, are springing up throughout the developing AND developed worlds. Nations like Bangladesh and the Maldives [...]

Famine, war and chaos in Somalia August 3
Hour 1 Somalia – without a functioning government for most of the last 20 years, devastated by civil war and the insurgency of al Qaeda-affiliated Al Shabab, and one of the poorest, most dangerous places in the world [...]

Massacre in Norway & Europe's far right July 28
Hour 1 The attacks in Norway on Friday killed 76 people, most of them teens and young adults slaughtered at an island camp for young political leaders in training. Early on, speculation about the murderers focused on Al [...]

The plight of Iraqis who have helped the U.S. government July 25
Hour 1 When the U.S. went to war in Iraq it relied heavily on local Iraqis to help interpret the language, explain local customs, provide intelligence tips and make contact with others who could be helpful to the [...]

Facial Recognition Technology July 21
Hour 1 Police and sheriff departments around the country are testing facial recognition technology. They are building databases of suspects using photos, iris scans and fingerprints that will allow law enforcement officials to identify people remotely using handheld [...]

The way forward in Afghanistan June 22
Hour 1 In a speech tonight, President Obama is expected to outline his plan for withdrawing 10,000 troops from Afghanistan as well as a schedule for bringing home the 33,000 "surge" troops sent to the region last year. [...]

Debating the War Powers Act & today's wars June 21
Hour 1 Sunday marked 90 days since the U.S. began a military intervention in Libya, officially extending past the later of two deadlines set forth in the War Powers Act for presidential war-waging without congressional approval. Through his [...]

Sexual violence against journalists June 20
Hour 2 Before the news of the sexual assault of CBS correspondent Lara Logan, few cases of sexual attacks against journalists had ever been documented.  Now, more and more female journalists are coming forward with similar stories.  They [...]

The Pentagon Papers June 14
Hour 1 Yesterday, forty years after the New York Times published its first article on the Pentagon Papers, the federal government released in full this secret government study of the Vietnam War.   The Pentagon Papers provided a full [...]

The crises in Yemen and Syria June 9
Hour 1 The government crackdown in Syria has resulted in the killing hundreds of protesters amid reports of extreme human rights violations .  Pressure on President Bashar al-Assad  is mounting as the U.N. considers an official condemnation on [...]

Cyberwarfare and Cybersecurity June 7
Hour 1 The Pentagon will soon release its new cyberwarfare strategy  that will classify a cyberattack from another nation as an act of war, possibly leading to a military response.  This news comes on the heels of two [...]

Support for Military Families May 23
Hour 2 Last month Michelle Obama and Jill Biden announced the initiative “Joining Forces” to focus on the issues facing military families, the people President Obama has referred to as the “force behind the force.”  The program will [...]

Bing West on Afghanistan after Bin Laden, 'The Wrong War' May 11
Hour 1 President Obama’s date for the beginning of the drawdown of U.S. troops in Afghanistan is less than two months away. But the Taliban’s annual “Spring Offensive” got off to a spectacular start in Kandahar last weekend, [...]

What the killing of bin Laden means for U.S. security and foreign policy May 4
Hour 1 We continue our coverage of the killing of Osama bin Laden with conversations about its implications for U.S. security and foreign policy.  Starting us off is HEATHER HURLBURT of the National Security Network who offers perspectives [...]

More on the killing of bin Laden May 3
Hour 1 As details emerge, we continue our coverage of the killing of Osama bin Laden. Our guests include HOWARD FINEMAN of The Huffington Post, who will discuss the political ramifications of the Al Qaeda leader’s death; DANIEL [...]

Reactions to the killing of bin Laden May 2
Hour 1 In his announcement late last night on the killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, President Obama declared that "Justice has been done."  In this hour of Radio Times, we get reaction to what some are [...]

Where do ousted dictators go? April 25
Hour 1 In recent months, amidst uprisings in their countries, Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali has become a "guest" of Saudi Arabia, Ivory Coast's outgoing president Laurent Gbagbo was arrested, Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh is [...]