1:10 Jackassery of the Week

19:48 Remembering 9/11

45:11 To Russia With Love

54:18 AfD Election Implications

1:01:15 AI Alarm Bells

1:04:25 Iran War Update

Former Senior Officials Ask Secretary Wright to Release Saudi Nuclear Deal Documents

Eric’s Hot Take on our dangerously incompetent Secretary of Defense

Is Canada the new Finland? Just how aggressive has China been with their neighbors? What’s behind Eric’s tapestry? All that and more on Shield of the Republic’s first ever mailbag episode!

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3:39: Jackassery of the Week

12:36: Trump’s Canada Trade War

18:29: Eliot’s Trip Report from Japan

35:56: Venezuelan Oil

44:32: Iran War Update

55:57: The View From Eastern Europe

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59:31: Professor Paul Miller Joins the Show

1:02:42: Myths About the War in Afghanistan

1:09:02: Key Decisions in the War

1:13:45: Counterinsurgency & Counterterrorism

1:18:24: Bureaucratic Missteps

1:23:55: The Pakistan Dilemma

1:33:07: U.S. Policy Reviews During the War

1:39:48: The Afghanistan Papers

Choosing Defeat: The Twenty-Year Saga of How America Lost Afghanistan

Bureaucracy Does Its Thing

Afghanistan Study Group Final Report: A Pathway for Peace in Afghanistan

Why The Afghan Security Forces Collapsed

Question for the show? Email mailbag@shieldoftherepublic.com!