Oil's long good-bye and what comes next
Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, Russia has used natural gas as a weapon against Ukraine and Europe as a whole. Threatening to turn shut off the pipes as the weather turns cold is a pretty effec...
20 Jan 201626min
Why in the world is the 60-year-old B-52 bomber still flying?
North Korea sets off a nuclear bomb and how does the U.S. respond? The Pentagon sends a 65-year-old airplane to buzz Korean airspace. It wouldn’t make a lot of sense if the warplane wasn’t the B-52 bo...
12 Jan 201626min
In North Korea, kids learn to love the bomb - and Minnie Mouse
North Korea is the most mysterious and oppressive regime on earth. Few journalists penetrate Pyongyang and fewer still stay long enough to understand the country and its people. Jean Lee is one of tho...
8 Jan 201630min
The women warriors giving ISIS nightmares
Islamic State has many enemies, both around the world and in the Middle East. But there’s one group of fighters that the men of Islamic State fear more than others because, rumors say, to be killed by...
17 Dec 201528min
What will cause the next Holocaust?
The conditions necessary to allow genocide – to provide one group the psychological “permission” to kill another en masse – come together all too often, in Europe during World War II, in Rwanda, in Bo...
9 Dec 201532min
'Nothing is real, anything is possible': How Putin's propaganda machine works
The media in Russia is lively, often entertaining and largely state controlled. Still, an illusion of freedom remains key for the Kremlin to maintain its grasp over a country that spans 11 time zones....
1 Dec 201529min
Are drone strikes working if Paris attacks can still happen?
Predator and Reaper drones hang in the sky above Pakistan, Yemen, Iraq and Syria. Mostly they observe, search for targets – and occasionally they unleash Hellfire missiles. Targets may be large gather...
24 Nov 201527min
One phrase from Saudi clerics could begin the end of Islamic State
The recent terror attacks in Paris shook the world and put the focus back on Islamic State. This week on War College, we talk with American Special Operations intelligence veteran Malcolm Nance. Nance...
19 Nov 201545min
