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THIS WEEK'S SHOW: October 1, 2026
AI Apocalypse?

"A juvenility of moral imagination that is at the core of this."

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, 2007
Iraq: Military Self-Critique

Click to Listen to the Show (24 MB MP3) General Casey handing command of MNF-I to General Petraeus, February 2007 [Department of Defense] It’s veto week in Washington. After General...
, 2007
Killing in War

[Thanks to AJD for pitching this one.] Scanning for snipers in Ghazaliya, Iraq [soldiersmediacenter / Flickr] How do you train young Americans to be ready to kill in war? The...
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, 2007
Women in War

Click to Listen to the Show (24 MB MP3) [Thanks to hurley and valkyrie607 for pitching this idea.] In Iraq [Mary Godwin / Flickr] American women are serving, getting injured,...
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, 2007
Coming Home: Iraq Veterans

Click to Listen to the Show (24 MB MP3) The recent media coverage of Walter Reed Army Hospital is a reminder of the battle that veterans have to fight when...
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, 2007
Do Americans Need to Serve?

Click to Listen to the Show (24 MB MP3) [Thanks to Forton Twelve, herbert browne, and davispeter for the nudges.] That’s NSman as in NationalServiceMan [superciliousness / Flickr] Last week’s...
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, 2007
The Future of the All-Volunteer Military

Click to Listen to the Show (24 MB MP3) Training instructors at Lackland Air Force Base saluted with a ceremonial fly-over. [Linda H. Rasch / Flickr] The U.S. military has...
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, 2007
What the Active-Duty Military Wants

Is the culture of the active-duty military changing?

The American military — once a staunch supporter of President Bush and the Iraq war — has grown increasingly pessimistic about chances for victory. For the first time, more troops...
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, 2006
The Classroom Lessons of Iraq

Click to Listen to the Show (24 MB MP3) In twenty years the Iraq war — like the Napoleonic and Peloponnesian Wars before it — will be taught in classrooms...
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, 2006
Iraq: A Military Inquest

Click to Listen to the Show (24 MB MP3) Looking back at Iraq [Jdraiders / Flickr] After the Iraq Study Group’s recommendations (and Rumsfeld was ousted and President Bush “agreed...
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, 2006
The War Tapes: Cinema Guerrité

Click to Listen to the Show (24 MB MP3) A Soldier’s eye view [Scranton/Lacy Films] War has long been a subject of legendary filmmaking. Films such as Glory, Battleship Potemkin,...
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, 2005
Stuck in the Pottery Barn

Click to Listen to the Show (24 MB MP3) Can we go home now? [Alive In Baghdad / Flickr] Barry Posen (right) in the studio with Chris [Brendan Greeley] So...
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, 2005
Soldiers and Families: Life in the 150th

  …they had gone on a mission and he was playing peek-a-boo with a child standing behind a tree that looked to be about two. And then he realized that...
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, 2005
The War in First Person

  Sometimes I feel bad thinking about what could possibly happen to these people (the Iraqis) if this doesn’t pan out. Specialist Ernesto Haibi, 6/30/05 on Open Source In the...