How did ISIS manage to take control of so much territory, imposing its will politically and inflicting an immense amount of damage? How should we make sense of its origins and evolution as an organization? And does a better understanding of the group enable us to anticipate what form it might take in its next evolutionary stage? This episode features a conversation about these and other questions with Craig Whiteside and Haroro Ingram, two of the authors of a recent book, The ISIS Reader.
Both military practitioners and scholars believe that artificial intelligence will influence the character of war in the future. But it’s difficult to know how...
The decisions by the governments of Sweden and Finland to apply to join NATO marked a major departure from both countries' longstanding policies of...
This episode features a conversation with Dr. Amy Kruse, chief scientific officer at the Platypus Institute. She discusses "Human 2.0," a concept she describes...