Military
Opera Philadelphia premieres Pulitzer Prize-winning Silent Night
On Christmas Eve, 1914, in the midst of shelling on the Western Front of World War 1, lower-ranking troops spontaneously created a truce, ...
Air Date: February 8, 2013
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The ongoing threat of al-Qaeda
In her Congressional testimony last week regarding the attack on an American consulate in Benghazi, Hillary Clinton said that the recent ...
Air Date: January 29, 2013
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An end to the combat ban for women
Last week Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced that he was ending the military’s ban on women serving in combat positions. “Femal ...
Air Date: January 28, 2013
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The Inauguration and Obama’s next term
Yesterday President Obama was sworn into his second term as commander in chief of the United States , something that has only happened ...
Air Date: January 22, 2013
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Journalist Mark Bowden on “The Finish” of Osama bin Laden
[REBROADCAST] Journalist MARK BOWDEN r ...
Air Date: January 11, 2013
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The President’s national security team nominations and the future of foreign policy
In nominating Senator John Kerry as Secretary of State, Senator Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense and White House counter-terrorism adv ...
Air Date: January 10, 2013
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Congress, politics and the fiscal cliff
In the wee hours of January 1, the Senate passed legislation that would raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans — those earning ove ...
Air Date: January 2, 2013
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Downsizing the Pentagon budget; then, what suicide bombers & rampage shooters have in common
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 t ...
Air Date: December 19, 2012
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Lincoln’s code: the fundamentals of international war time conduct
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 th ...
Air Date: December 19, 2012
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A conversation with former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker
Our guest in this hour of Radio Times, RYAN C. CROCKER, recently stepped down as U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan. Crocker ...
Air Date: December 13, 2012
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The attack in Benghazi, Susan Rice, and the GOP
Yesterday, UN Ambassador Susan Rice met with Republican senators in an effort to explain remarks she made immediately following the Septe ...
Air Date: November 28, 2012
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Egypt’s elected president, Mohamed Morsi, sparked a new political crisis less than two years after a popular uprising ousted Hosni Muba ...
Air Date: November 27, 2012
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As the air war over Israel and Gaza continues and Israeli’s amass ground troops and tanks along the shared border, Egyptian-led eff ...
Air Date: November 20, 2012
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The Petraeus affair & its ramifications
Hour 1 A stunning scandal has triggered the resignation of the most important military leader of modern U.S. history, Dav ...
Air Date: November 14, 2012
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Journalist Mark Bowden on “The Finish” of Osama bin Laden
Hour 2 Journalist MARK BOWDEN r ...
Air Date: October 25, 2012
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